Saturday, 3 January 2026, marked the definitive end of the US-led World Order. The US President evoked the Monroe Doctrine of hemispheric dominance to justify intervening militarily in Venezuela to capture its elected president, Nicolás Maduro, under trumped-up charges of narco-trafficking. While some may doubt the integrity of the country’s 2024 presidential election, it is worth noting that corporate and state actors have long manipulated elections in allegedly liberal democracies. The Donald himself has cast doubt on the outcome of the 2020 US general election, which saw an uninspiring, senile candidate attract a landslide with over 15 million more votes than Hillary Clinton received in 2016.

The attempted oil grab came only a few weeks after Donald Trump had pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted of helping drug traffickers import more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States while accepting bribes to fuel his political career and protecting violent drug cartel leaders from prosecution.

Some may wonder if the Donroe Doctrine, as the Orange Man wants us to call it, is the first move in the repartition of the world into American, Russian, and Chinese spheres of influence. Will China feel emboldened to annex Taiwan? Will NATO survive if the US annexes Greenland?

Among the first to congratulate Trump on his regime change operation was Benjamin Netanyahu, with hawkish allies embedded in the Departments of War and State eager to invade Iran on Israel’s behalf. It comes as little surprise that all of Trump’s closest allies in Latin America, from Javier Milei of Argentina to Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, are staunchly pro-Israel. By contrast, Maduro sided with the Palestinian cause. A week earlier, the Commander-in-Chief had authorised the USAF to bomb Islamic insurgents in the Bauni forest of Sokoto State, Northern Nigeria. This may be far from the oil-rich Niger Delta region, but it is conspicuously close to Niger and large phosphate, coal, gold, and uranium reserves.

We now have a split between European and North American Neo-Cons. Both groups want war but cannot agree on the targets of their aggression. The Americans seem to prioritise control of strategic resources, and Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves, around 17% of the world’s total, or over 300 billion barrels. They know they cannot defeat Russia without triggering WW3, rely on Saudi Arabia, or occupy Iran. On the other side of the Atlantic, the elites pursue the WEF’s Agenda 2030 with much greater zeal to the detriment of their home-bred working classes. By seeking confrontation with Russia, they have denied European industry easy access to essential raw materials and cheap energy sources, just as Africa falls increasingly within China’s and Russia’s orbit, especially for new transport infrastructure and lucrative strategic minerals mining deals.

However, what if neither European nor American Deep State actors have the best interests of their citizens at heart? What if our leaders are well aware that their reckless military adventurism will destabilise their countries? Indeed, what if both Biden and Trump were mere puppets overseeing the demise of the American dream, alienating NATO allies on purpose and triggering uprisings against US commercial interests around the world? That is not as far-fetched as it seems. US oil companies have already demanded serious guarantees from the US administration before investing in Venezuela because they fear guerrilla warfare on a scale much larger than the Vietnam quagmire. Senior American oil analysts have described Venezuela as uninvestable, i.e. only feasible with a massive US military presence that could bankrupt North America’s biggest economy. The flamboyant POTUS is now calling for a massive boost to military spending in 2027 from $901 billion to $1.5 trillion.

While Chavistas, loyal to Hugo Chavez’s Modern Bolivarian Movement, may only be a minority of Venezuelans, they form a large enough critical mass to bring down any imposed administration through coordinated civil disobedience and greatly outnumber the still-wealthy comprador class, who are likely to benefit most from lucrative deals with American multinationals. In the middle are ordinary Venezuelans who are both patriotic and socially conservative. Despite suffering from harsh US sanctions for the best part of fifteen years, Venezuela has recently turned the corner and begun striking lucrative oil and mineral export deals with China. In short, US corporations need Venezuelan oil more than Venezuelans need US investment and oversight.

Some may believe that either the Donald has made a big miscalculation or that Americans think they own the world and all of its resources. There are two flaws in that analysis. First, I doubt the Donald is calling the shots. The alternation of Obama, Trump 1, Biden, and Trump 2 looks increasingly stage-managed. Nobody has ever won the presidency unless they acquiesced to the demands of key lobbies in the Biotech-Military Industrial Complex.

While annexing Canada, Greenland and Venezuela may theoretically provide plentiful resources to power shameless mass consumerism and revive the American Dream, that ain’t going to happen. The elites pulling Trump’s strings, pretty much the same oligarchs who controlled Obama and Biden, do not care about ordinary US citizens. That’s why they’ve been outsourcing skilled jobs for decades. They seem quite happy to engineer a low-level civil war over identity politics as we’ve seen on the streets on Minneapolis since immigration officers shot dead a middle class woke woman, whose car blocked their operations. If you support peace coexistence and self-determination, you may regulate migratory flows to maintain socio-economic stability. However, if your rulers ransack the rest of world for raw materials and destabilise their societies, you can hardly complain if millions flock to your country to get their share of wealth generated by exploiting remote resources. The point is our rulers do not want stability or the kind of widespread prosperity we’ve been accustomed to in the West. They want war both to impoverish the middle classes and get rid of fair chunk of useless eaters, but who will fight it?

Honestly, I do not see many British, French, German or even American youngsters volunteering to fight for the likes of BlackRock, Haliburton, ExxonMobile, Microsoft or Pfizer. AI-enabled drones will fight the next and we will be mere bystanders locked down in our humble abodes checking social media for updates on power outages and nearby food banks.