The ‘peace president’ has attacked seven countries and threatened six others in his first 14 months

Four years later, during the campaign that returned him to the White House, he repeated again and again like a mantra that he was not going to drag the United States into “more endless wars” (endless wars) like those of Afghanistan and Iraq. “They were the worst mistake in the history of the country”he repeated like a mantra.

In November 2024, the same night of his second election victory, Trump promised to “end all wars.” Some, like Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, “within a few hours.”

Since then, Trump has attacked targets in at least seven countries and he or his closest men have threatened six others with invasions or annexations.

And his renamed War Department has been more active in the last 14 months than during his entire first presidency, intervening in new regions and taking much greater risks that then, according to an analysis del Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), un think tank American that monitors conflicts around the world.

His interventionist hyperactivity abroad has been so intense that it has already become one of the distinctive features of a president who has not only openly and repeatedly expressed his desire to receive the Nobel Peace Prize —until literally two days ago, when he stated that he “is no longer interested”—but has even boasted of having put an end to eight international conflicts.

Ocho paces which also include simple diplomatic disagreements between countries and agreements obtained through economic coercion from Washington.

Trump’s last military mission, named Operation Epic Fury and launched jointly with Israel against Iran on February 28, has already become in his first great war. A large-scale conflict that has ended up involving several Middle Eastern countries and that threatens to become longer. Before that, however, there have been many other interventions designed to be “surgical”“quick victory” and, if possible, on the weekend and thus take advantage of the fact that the stock markets are closed.

The clearest example was perhaps the action – considered illegal from the point of view of international law by many analysts – in Venezuela in January 2026, when US forces carried out an attack and, in a matter of hours, They captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. This came after weeks of attacks in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean since September, an operation that the Trump Administration says is still ongoing and targets drug trafficking.

Anti-terrorist operations

The chronology of this climb actually starts nothing more return to power. After his inauguration a little over a year ago, Trump approved the expansion of counterterrorism operations in Somalia and Iraq. In his first days in office, he bombed suspected targets of Al Shabab, an al Qaeda affiliate, and ISIS in those countries.

In parallel, last spring, Washington launched an intense bombing campaign against the Houthi militias, allies of the Iranian regime, in Yemen. The mission? Respond to the attacks that the armed group was launching against commercial and military ships in the Red Sea, in retaliation for Israel’s war in Gaza.

According to the Pentagon, its forces then struck more than 1,000 Houthi targets, killing hundreds of fighters and destroying headquarters, weapons depots and missile launch pads.

The case of Nigeria was perhaps the most striking (not to say macabre) of 2025. In the middle of Christmas, the US Army launched airstrikes in the northwest of the country and then presented the operation as a response to the alleged “mass murder of Christians” by Islamist groups.

The truth, however, is that several jihadist groups operate in Nigerian territory—such as Boko Haram, or militias linked to ISIS or Al Qaeda—and, although armed violence has skyrocketed in recent months, it has taken a toll. hundreds of victims, both Muslim and Christian Because Trump forgot that Boko Haram also kills Muslims.

At the end of the year, in Syria, the US army also attacked multiple Islamic State targets, following an attack on a fortified base in Palmyra in which two US soldiers were killed.

Against this backdrop of lightning offensives, the bombings last June against Iranian nuclear facilities are also included, in Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow, located underground.

And although at that time the Pentagon claimed to have ended the threat posed by the Iranian atomic program, the truth is that those attacks were actually the prelude to the current warwhose objectives have been varying over the days and whose end is uncertain.

Trump’s battle of words

Added to these interventions are the continuous threats of attacks or invasions against enemies and allies. From turning Canada into the 51st state of the United States, to buying or entering Greenland—autonomous territory but within the Kingdom of Denmark—, coveting the Panama Canal and even renaming the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America”.

Colombia is also under the microscope of Trump because he considers that “it is governed by a sick man, who likes to make cocaine and sell it to the United States.” Not long ago, when a journalist asked him if the US was considering “an operation like the one in Venezuela,” Trump did not rule it out, but said: “Sounds good to me.”

Apparently, it also sounds good to him to take “in a friendly or not so friendly way” Cuba, an island that he has been pressuring for months to bring about a change in the communist regime of Miguel Díaz-Caneland on which it has imposed an oil blockade that has aggravated the energy crisis that Havana has been dragging on for years.