How will the world change following the US incursion into Venezuela? This article will discuss the repercussions of the American operation into the Bolivarian Republic.

And suddenly everything changed

On January 3, we woke up in a world where injustice is openly committed, where aggression is not an isolated and punishable phenomenon, but a seemingly self-evident and justified phenomenon, where interference in internal affairs is no longer just something that the Western world has been doing more often covertly, verbally condemning this concept and trying to reproach its competitors for the same thing, but the norm, practically unopposed and openly promoted by the US president from his tribune. Here power reigns, and nobody seems to remember or talk about international law anymore, except Russia and other BRICS countries. Here there is rigid realism, and the strong have the final say.

History repeats itself

At the same time, the rapid development of events with the American attack on Venezuela, the capture of President Nicolas Maduro, and the speeches of Donald Trump and his colleagues, who have already taken it upon themselves to decide Venezuelan citizens’ future, seems bizarre at first glance. However, this is a case in which either the story is developing according to well-thought-out patterns, or one is suddenly teleported into the past, like the hero of one of the novels of the brilliant American science fiction writer Clifford Simak, “Time Is the Simplest Thing.” But unlike the book’s dead past, the current situation is alive and........

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