The year has had a chaotic start in the Western Hemisphere. On Jan. 3, President Donald Trump launched Operation Absolute Resolve, a U.S. military incursion into the oil-rich country of Venezuela, which climaxed with the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on charges of narco-terrorism and drug trafficking.
President Trump then followed that operation with intimations of an American annexation of Greenland from Denmark, as well as threats to Cuba. Not only could this unprecedented international aggression create geopolitical consequences, but it could affect the finances of everyday Americans as well. Here are a few possible scenarios.
