Trump has proposed raising US military spending to $1.5 billion by 2027
On the other hand, Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro spoke on the phone last night to resolve diplomatic tensions between the two countries. Both leaders have agreed to hold a meeting at the White House on an unspecified day.
Photo montage by Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed to increase military spending by 50% by 2027, to $1.5 billion (up to €1.3 billion).
Trump has explained on the Truth Social platform that his decision comes after "difficult and long" negotiations with representatives of the House of Representatives and the Senate, driven by the current context.
Trump has stressed that an increase in the military budget will allow "a dream army to be built." Not only that, according to the US president, will make it possible to keep the country safe and secure, "whoever the enemy is."
Trumphas stressed that border taxes will allow military spending to rise to $1.5 billion.
Trump and Petro will meet at the White House.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro and US President Donald Trump have had a telephone conversation and a meeting at the White House. The phone call this Wednesday has reduced diplomatic tensions between the two countries since the arrest in Caracas of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The Colombian and US governments emphasized the "constructive tone" of the conversation, which lasted for an hour and ended, at least for the time being, a verbal escalation, as Trump said he was happy to conduct an operation similar to the one that ended Maduro's capture in Colombia.
Trump, for his part, has announced that he will meet Petro at the White House and that it was "an honor" to talk to President Petro about the situation related to drug trafficking and other disagreements between the two administrations.
After the successful ground operation in Venezuela, US President Donald Trump threatened Colombia. In the last few hours, the leaders of both countries have had a phone call that has lasted more than an hour and a meeting at the White House. Eider Aranberri, good morning.
The Colombian preisdent, Gustavo Petro, has confirmed the phone call and the meeting they have discussed in the belief that it is better to talk than to fight each other.
PETRO NOS MATAMOS
Trump has detailed on his social media that Petro has called him to discuss, among other things, the drug situation and the disagreements between the two countries. The phone call has been long and pleasant, but perhaps too short to talk about everything they have to talk about. Soon, they will meet face to face at the White House, when diplomatic relations between the two sides are at the height of the old tension.
These are the consequences of the kind of pressure and threat policy that Trump has imposed on the world... And in this environment, he's opened another front. He hijacked two Venezuelan oil carriers in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean. In international waters... One of them was flying the Russian flag and had long been under the radar of a United States court. Trump ordered his armed forces in December to block and intercept all oil tankers entering Venezuela. Russia is cautious and worried for the time being, but the United States has taken over the oil. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it without a beard.
RUBIO ALL THE OIL
That all the Venezuelan oil will be for them... more than 50 million barrels a year.
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