If you went back just two weeks, and did the exact same thing, it'd take the US a week or two to even vaguely decide on a response to it, and it would almost certainly be a compromise. Trump has been vastly different, not so much in his aggressiveness, but in the speed of it. Within hours of someone trying to stop his plan, he immediately opened the floodgates.
He's not playing games anymore, he's not playing judiciously with his soft or hard power, he's doing what he wants, and if they try to stop him, he'll immediately use anything at his disposal to make it the worst possible decision for them imaginable. And its working, I guarantee the rest of LATAM knows to not tell the repatriation flights to fuck off. AND he's fucking doing this while bullying the danes outta Greenland.
I wonder if this reminds Trump of his early business startup days. Might be where all the energy is coming from.