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Globalist Hypocrisy Unveiled

Venezuela was quite a fireworks start to the new year.

President Trump is not power crazy nor a fool. His move against Venezuela was brazen, deliberate, and coldly strategic. Even by the grim record of recent US imperial behaviour, it stood out—reminiscent of 19th-century gunboat diplomacy, where force, intimidation, and disregard for sovereignty were tools of routine policy. The British in those days were especially good at this in the Malay Archipelago – routinely capturing and shipping out hostile and uncooperative Chiefs and Sultans to far-flung islands of their global empire.

Venezuela was not a miscalculation. President Trump knew exactly how it would play out: condemnation from those with no power to act, and silence from those with power but no will. Venezuela’s status as an international black sheep made it the perfect target. Why? Is it because of Venezuela’s oil? Why does one have to kidnap a president, emir or a king of a foreign country on video to steal its oil? Western oil companies have done it in many countries silently and without drama over the years. 

Surely, Maduro must have something that Trump wants. Trump’s action is not without legal precedent :  Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.

Legal basis? The 1823 Monroe Doctrine: 

“It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can anyone believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord.”

Many have condemned Trump’s actions as violations of international norms and laws. But which norms, exactly? Those relating to national sovereignty and non-interference? Haven’t those already been trampled—most visibly during the COVID era, when unelected bodies and technocrats dictated policies that reshaped entire societies without democratic mandate?

The world today is effectively steered by a small, unaccountable elite making decisions for billions. Trump is simply operating within that same reality—except he is at least an elected leader, acting openly and in the name of his own country, rather than behind the veil of “global consensus” and bureaucratic authority.