US Strikes on Venezuela Sound an Alarm for Global Governance
Fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela’s largest military complex, is seen from a distance after a series of explosions in Caracas on January 3, 2026. The US military was behind a series of strikes against the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Saturday, which reportedly led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, US media reported. Photo: AFP
Launching a military strike against a sovereign country in the name of “law enforcement” and forcibly seizing another country’s president by relying on overwhelming power – this is a scenario so outrageous that even Hollywood screenwriters would struggle to imagine it. Yet Washington has made it a reality in full view of the world, shocking the international community. UN Secretary-General António Guterres was deeply alarmed, warning that the move sets “a dangerous precedent,” while Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated that such actions are “the first step toward a world of violence, chaos, and instability.” Within a day, many countries around the world condemned the US’ hegemonic behavior. Even US allies, for the most part, expressed their lack of support by stressing that international law must be respected.
According to various sources, the US is highly satisfied with both the process and the outcome of the military operation. What the international community sees, however, is the enormous damage and grave harm caused by it. The US side places its so-called federal indictment above the authority of international law and substitutes military violence for diplomatic means. This, in essence, elevates the jungle law of “might makes right” above international law and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. In fact, since tensions between the US and Venezuela escalated, the United Nations Security Council has convened emergency meetings to discuss the situation in the Caribbean. Many countries emphasized that the US must abide by international law, yet these calls were ignored by Washington. This is a vivid reflection of US-style hegemony overriding multilateralism.
The military action has also inflicted serious damage on peace in Latin America and the Caribbean. Geographically distant from the world’s major conflict hotspots, the region has long been regarded as one of the most peaceful in the world. For this reason, the 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries cherish their hard-won peace, and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States declared the region a “zone of peace” in 2014. Now, however, the US continuous escalation of military actions is bringing the flames of war into this region. This time it is Venezuela – who will be next? Chilean President Gabriel Boric captured the sentiments of many Latin American countries when he said, “Tomorrow, it can be anyone.” Just imagine: If a major power can, on the strength of its fist alone, bypass all procedures and resort to military force against another country at will under the pretext of “combating crime,” even targeting the leaders of sovereign states, which country could truly ensure its own absolute security? In this context, the US military strikes against Venezuela are not merely a Latin American issue; they also highlight the urgent need to address the deficits in global governance.
The US military actions against Venezuela have sounded the alarm for global governance. This escalating crisis, in addition to the longstanding bullying of Latin America by the US, is also due to the imbalance in the global governance system, which has provided an opportunity for hegemony to thrive. The current international balance of power has undergone profound changes, but reforms to the global governance system have lagged for a long time, leaving developing countries with severely inadequate representation and voice. In this unbalanced framework, hegemonic countries can trample on rules without effective constraints, while developing countries find it difficult to protect their rights and interests through fair international mechanisms. The forcible detention of Maduro by the US can occur to some extent precisely because the existing global governance mechanisms lack effective constraints, which fail to impose appropriate costs on hegemonic behavior.
History has long proven that relying on military conquest and resource plundering doesn’t bring stability; it only sows the seeds for further conflict. As Britain’s The Guardian has quoted a professor as saying, it is “very rare” for US interventions in the region to be followed by “peace, tranquility, stability and democracy.” As a founding member of the United Nations, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and the host country of the UN headquarters, the US has not upheld the international order; instead, it has taken the lead in undermining it – violating the norms of international relations and weakening the foundations of global governance. Meanwhile, so-called “American-style intervention” has left lasting troubles for regional peace and development, increased the burden of regional and global governance, and driven up governance costs. In fact, the reactions of countries around the world make it clear that the US attempt to assert its authority in the Western Hemisphere by taking actions against Venezuela has been rejected by the vast majority of countries, demonstrating the irreversible trend toward multilateralism and the broad consensus in favor of fairness and justice.
Last year, China proposed the Global Governance Initiative, clearly advocating for staying committed to sovereign equality, international rule of law, multilateralism, the people-centered approach and real results. From Venezuela’s current plight, it is easy to see the forward-looking, strategic, and urgent nature of these five core principles. This crisis further proves that humanity is a community with a shared future, and that hegemonism is a common enemy of all humanity. The only way for the international community to eradicate the soil from which hegemonism breeds is to unite firmly in support of international law and fairness and justice, and to work together to promote changes in global governance, which will create a stable environment for lasting prosperity for all countries.
Alexander Willis
January 4, 2026
RAW STORY
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque//File Photo
The Trump administration’s repeated justification for capturing Venezuela's president has been that he was facing criminal charges from the United States, but one political commentator noted that by that same logic, President Donald Trump had just given countries the world over the “green light” to launch their own military invasions.
“If [Chinese President] Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object?” wrote former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan in a social media post on X. “Or have any credibility to say anything?”
Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro was captured Saturday as part of a large-scale military operation greenlit by Trump, and transferred to New York to face trial on charges of narco-terrorism and possession of machine guns.
The operation saw the administration struggle to reconcile the aggressive maneuver with Trump’s purported commitment to non-interventionism, with Vice President JD Vance in particular scrambling to legally justify the attack on social media.
By its own implicit admission, however, the Trump administration had just offered “the green light Xi needed” to invade Taiwan, according to political commentator Jo Carducci, or the green light for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “kidnap [Ukrainian President Volodmir] Zelenskyy,” according to academic Nader Heshemi.
The United States has officially maintained a position of strategic ambiguity as it relates to Taiwan’s sovereignty, though has an immense economic interest in seeing Taiwan maintain a semblance of independence from mainland China. The People’s Republic of China maintains that Taiwan is part of China, and has not ruled out the use of force to achieve reunification.
And, according to the political commentators, the Trump administration’s unprecedented attack on Venezuela may have permanently eroded Washington’s moral and legal authority to credibly deter comparable military action by China.
The (Over)Reach of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza
The Trump administration’s military aggression against the people of Venezuela proves the dictum: US/Western imperialism is gangsterism on an international level. The World has witnessed an attempted smash and grab/shakedown operation, and extortion racket perpetrated by a gangster state.
Of course, Trump is going to strut and preen and sputter braggadocio about his exercise in plundering Venezuela’s oil assets. Trump’s personality evinces the traits of a gangster given to ostentatious displays of his criminality, not the smart type who schemes from the shadows.
The history of the Mob proves the latter’s reign is given to greater longevity. After his moment of (fantasized) glory (early signs point to egomaniacal overreach) the tanking US economy and the shadow of Epstein will continue the (dismal and deranged) undoing of the Bitcon Don.
Trump’s increasing cusp-of-Alzheimer’s impulsiveness, his angry outbursts and non-sequitur-laced diatribes mirror Al Capone’s unseemly and pathetic end, undone, as syphilis ravaged the body and brain of the once king of the Chicago underworld.
Regarding Trump’s lies about Venezuela being a narco-state
The Hugo Chavez government halted CIA drug smuggling operations in the nation, decades back. Venezuela presents nada threat to the US on a military nor any other basis. And no, a contrived court case, sans a UN mandate and congressional resolution regarding war powers, does not constitute a legal justification for military action.
Trump is simply a congenital criminal, a sociopath born into a rigged system that protects the worst people US empire spawns within its swamp of mendacity. Of course, you recall said swamp…that Trump pledged to drain. Of course, you also remember he was “the peace candidate.”
Trump’s word is as real as the lie that is America. As real as the US is “a shining city on the hill.” The nation is a blood-sustained empire built on a mountain of corpses, from genocide-dispatched Indians, worked-to-their-grave African slaves, crushed beneath US empire Latin America and Caribbean peasants, and all the millions upon millions of victims of US Murder Inc. across the exploited globe. Once again, Trump tears down the facade and reveals the blood-drenched architecture of US empire.
Do you think when Trump’s rotting carcass shambles from the scene that Democrats will return US plundered oil loot to the Venezuelan people? The belief would display a mind-annihilating case of toxic innocence. Remember, Obama’s deployment of ISIS head-chopping jihadists to coup and kill Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi and smash and grab and abscond with the nation’s oil wealth and gold reserves — a war crime that rendered the once richest nation in Africa a failed state where slaves are sold on the open market.
This is the modus operandi of empire. Withal, believing voting can reform a military empire/economic imperium is like a squid applying for a job in a sushi restaurant “to change the system from within.”
In regard to the powerless of the earth e.g., me. My social media comment threads are infested by this sort of rage-frothing invective:
“Phil, you are a Kapo, a self-hating Jew, who enables Hamas terrorists.”
In response to the inanity, I posit, slaves who rose up against their masters (including, according to the mythos of the religion of my birth, Judaism — e.g., the followers of Moses who threw off their chains of bondage to Pharaoh, as well as the historical reality of the Jewish prisoners walled within the Warsaw Ghetto who fought to free themselves from Nazi imprisonment and the American slave (who insisted he was guided by God) Nat Turner and his rebellion against his Virginia plantation masters — all are regarded as heroes.
Yet Palestinians imprisoned within Gaza by their Zionist overlords — the majority of whom were born and have been confined within the massively militarily surrounded open air concentration camp — have never traveled outside of its precincts. Yet, according to Zionists and their apologists, their uprising was the action of depraved, blood-lusting terrorists.
Moreover, the citizenry of Gaza was under constant threat of attack from IDF marauders. Their military assaults on Gaza were termed by IDF raiding parties as “mowing the grass” i.e., acts of killing, terrorizing, and the taking of hostages (including children) back to Israeli torture prisons.
So don’t accuse me of being a supporter of terrorism. Israeli terror tactics were in constant play before the Oct. 7 uprising. In fact, they can be traced to the Nakba, then codified into Israeli state policy from 1948 to the present moment.
Thus sorry trolls, you cannot both-sides terrorism, in particular state-sanctioned terror that culminated in a genocide. The world has witnessed Israel’s perpetual war criminality; therefore, your compulsion to copy and paste hasbara lies (and spew ad hominem fallacy palaver) in my comment threads will not induce a global, collective outbreak of amnesia.
Further notes to Zionist apologists
It is not a good idea for Zionist true believers to equate, taking a stand against genocide as being antisemitic. We Jews are tiny in number; therefore, it is a far more propitious position to stand among the powerless and exploited of the Earth, and act as a vanguard of resistance against exploitative power, as opposed to acting as apologists for a brutal, highly militarized ethno-supremacist state, as well as Israel being deployed as a proxy force for Western imperialist agendas. (How is it possible, for a fleeting second, to believe that gentile western culture has developed a fondness for Jews?)
History relates, we Jews have all too often been prey. It is not a cogent notion to believe we will be welcome for long in the dominion of predators.
“The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens … for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Leviticus19:34).
IMO: In present day terms, the above passage of scripture, should be translated to, proffering a living amends to the Palestinian people, including a Right Of Return, and the bestowment of generous reparations for their decades of exile and suffering.
The damaged soul of Judaism can be restored by the dissolution of the Zionist state and the establishment of a true democracy on the stolen ground where it once stood. Otherwise, perpetually belligerent Israel will continue to be in asylum for the criminally insane disguised as a nation.
2025 played out as a global carnival of grim
The planet’s climate continued to rise to “are you fucking humans stupid beyond belief” levels, as the planet’s leadership class proved the declaration dead-on and deadly accurate.
Said gallery of grotesques either looked askance at genocide or enabled the abomination with stenographic fealty to Zionist hasbara or with proffered bottomless supplies of weaponry.
As noted above, at the advent of the new year, US Gangster Imperium (or what remains of it) has made a move to muscle in on Venezuela’s oil reserves. From all indications, Trump, intoxicated — to the point of grandiosity — from inflicting pain by his gambit to assert dominance on a smaller nation, is poised to double down on his bacchanal of aggression.
Malignant narcissist that he is, Trump derives a warped sense of pleasure from the fantasy he can hold a boot on the collective neck of the Venezuelan citizenry. Early indications from the ground in Venezuela, augur, its people are unwilling to take the position of supine submissive in accordance with Trump’s kink for dominance.
To wit, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello:
Here, the unity of the revolutionary force is more than guaranteed, and here there is only one president, whose name is Nicolas Maduro Moros. Let no one fall for the enemy’s provocations. We are outraged because in the end everything was revealed — it was revealed that they only want our oil.
If an Iraq type debacle comes to pass, US economic conscripts, the power-devoid underclass of the empire, will lose their lives, will sustain lifelong injuries, and suffer from psychological afflictions due to their deployment as expendable tools of the Trump administration’s cosplay racketeering and extortion scheme.
Attack of conscience, never going to happen
As is the case with the powerless in Gaza, criminals (i.e., sociopaths in possession of official titles and the attendant freedom from consequences said titles afford) will attempt to justify the unjustifiable: the taking of human life in an attempt to assuage the appetite of the insatiable monster that rules their psyche.
Ours is a painful, anxious time for those of us powerless, little ants, who attempt, Atlas-like, to hold up the World. Ridiculous, right? Yet our status as ants imparts: we are many and they are few; together, we have a chance of enduring; but alone, devoured from within by alienation, we will perish.
Man Lying with Branch, Anselm Kiefer
Trump Has Metaphorsed into Caligula
Maduro isn’t a gunrunner, they’re in Rubio’s backyard sniffing the product. He was betrayed. If you want the oil Donald, you’ll have to invade, despite your bone spurs.
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