Tag: Venezuela

The prevailing view among the international community is that while American hegemony still exists, it is now in a state of relative decline.

When political legitimacy becomes contingent on recognition by a superpower, populations lose their right to self-determination and democracy becomes a selective tool.

The danger is not merely hypocrisy, but normalization, a world in which coercion replaces cooperation and sovereignty becomes conditional.

Clear distinctions between America’s allies and adversaries no longer exist.

If the United States continues to indulge in ... power and military might ... and ignores the rule of law and the alliance system that have made [it] great, then that power and might will eventually slip through its fingers.

Donald Trump uses both hands to play with Venezuela’s destiny.

Beneath all the differing opinions, however, was one unchanging truth for each country: national interest comes first.

Donald Trump has not read history. He invaded Venezuela [to steal] the country’s oil, as if it were still 1973.

Trump appears to be facing a crisis of survival as president.

[T]here is an unhinged man driving a monster truck on the highway.

What we are witnessing is not merely a foreign policy crisis. It is a stress test of sovereignty itself, staged as spectacle.