New Risks Confront the Post-Lehman World

Venezuela is likely to become another wasted crisis, resembling events that followed when the U.S. forced regime changes in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.

We are faced with a "scenario" in which Washington's exclusive and absolute dominance over the entire hemisphere, from Greenland and Canada in the north to the southern reaches of Argentina and Chile.

[I]t can be said that the West — thanks to Trump, because he is the leader of the process and the host of meetings — is consolidating.

Defiant leaders would do well to learn from what happened in Caracas — be careful, Trump is in search of victories.

The message is unmistakable: there are no absolute guarantees and state sovereignty is conditional when it clashes with the interests of powerful states.

The more the U.S. interferes, the more likely [Venezuela] will drift into chaos.