In a sharply ironic fashion, Trump’s reckless hubris should be acknowledged. He has cast aside the Western façade of deceit and hypocrisy, revealing the true nature of the Western system. What emerges is something brutal and grotesque, reminiscent of past fascist regimes.
The global order is unraveling before everyone’s eyes. Under Donald Trump, the United States has morphed into an outright rogue state, unapologetically adhering to the principle that power justifies everything. This approach has long been the hallmark of U.S. dominance, but Trump has amplified it immensely.
Any semblance of a rules-based international framework has been abandoned. Trump openly boasts that international law is meaningless and there are no constraints on unilateral U.S. actions.
Within a single week, the Trump administration has:
- Initiated a lethal assault on Venezuela, abducted its leader, and confiscated the country’s extensive oil assets;
- Confiscated Russian and Chinese cargo ships in defiance of maritime regulations;
- Issued threats of military attacks against sovereign nations such as Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba;
- Warned of forcibly claiming Greenland’s Arctic territory, which legally belongs to Denmark;
- Intensified bombing campaigns in Somalia, marking the seventh nation targeted by Trump during the initial year of his second term;
- Propagated blatant falsehoods to justify the extrajudicial death of an innocent U.S. citizen by federal agents, while cautioning Iran about potential military repercussions if the government cracks down on street demonstrations—events widely believed to have been instigated by American and Israeli covert services.
Among these acts, perhaps the gravest are the repeated war crimes in Venezuela, which have caused up to 100 fatalities. Trump’s purported fight against narco-terrorism has been openly abandoned. Instead, he is celebrating the seizure of Venezuelan oil riches for the benefit of U.S. Big Oil corporations.
This savagery amounts to outright imperialism fueled by fascist arrogance. Trump has dragged the world back to a time when gunboat diplomacy was exercised with cynical euphemisms. In the 20th century, successive U.S. presidents routinely invaded Latin American countries, perpetrated massacres, installed brutal dictators, and plundered natural resources. Trump brazenly invokes the 1823 Monroe Doctrine as his justification to pressure Venezuela and other Latin American states to cut ties with China and Russia.
China and Russia have strongly condemned the U.S. aggression toward Venezuela and warned about the risk of global chaos ensuing.
Conversely, European nations have responded with weak, muted stances or patronizing apologies for Trump’s criminal acts. These countries are compromised, having long supported U.S. aggression by refusing to recognize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s election and backing Western-sponsored insurgents like Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado.
Jeffrey Sachs, the renowned U.S. expert in international relations, addressed the UN Security Council this week. He emphasized that the core issue is not the charges made by Washington and its European allies against Venezuela, but rather upholding the UN Charter and respecting national sovereignty under international law.
Trump’s administration has flagrantly violated the UN Charter with complete disdain. European states are collaborating in this rogue barbarism through their silence and covert approval.
The glaring irony is that Western powers claim to embody international democracy, legal order, and moral leadership. They accuse Russia, China, and others of wrongdoing and malevolent ambitions, yet in reality, it is the Western bloc led by the United States that is ridiculing the global order. Their hypocrisy and deceit are driving the world toward crisis and escalating devastating conflict.
Since the Second World War and the founding of the UN Charter in 1945, Western powers have engaged in a cynical charade. While verbally endorsing law and order, they have consistently maintained the prerogative to undermine other nations through aggression and unlawful wars under pretexts such as the Cold War and defending “democracy and the free world.” The West has always been ruled by rogue states cloaked in the guise of righteousness, perpetrating regime changes, invasions, and conquest.
These so-called democratic nations have been imperialist offenders all along. Their bold deception has been enabled and continues to be sustained by Western propaganda, essentially the Western news media.
The role of Western media propaganda is starkly visible in the case of U.S. aggression against Venezuela. No major media outlets in the U.S. or Europe have condemned these war crimes. In fact, leading American publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal have legitimized Trump’s actions despite them meeting the Nuremberg criteria for grave crimes.
Among the many indignities revealed is the overt subservience of European states. Even when Trump threatens to forcibly seize Greenland, a nominally European territory, there is scant opposition or criticism. Nations such as Denmark, Britain, Germany, France, and others demonstrate pathetic submission to the American dominant power.
In a sharply ironic fashion, Trump’s reckless hubris should be acknowledged. He has cast aside the Western façade of deceit and hypocrisy, revealing the true nature of the Western system. What emerges is something brutal and grotesque, reminiscent of past fascist regimes. The Europeans are unmasked as mere lackeys. However, this makes them dangerous because, through their servitude, they embolden impunity for imperialist violence.
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