Trump's green light to the strong |
With the ink barely dry on Donald Trump's new Western Hemisphere accented National Security Strategy, its lawless potentialities are apparent.
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We got just three days in before discovering that 2026 heralds a return to something closer to the 19th century chauvinism of 1826.
That was a time when plundering empires did as they pleased and weaker nations suffered as they must.
America, via its Monroe Doctrine (1823), took a stand, declaring future European acquisitions would be repelled in its hemisphere.
Now, under what Donald Trump delights in branding the 'Donroe' doctrine, he's decided to have a bit of both - his own hemisphere and a spot of their imperialism.
The world's other strongmen are in fierce agreement.
The 47th president's daring abduction-arrest operation in Caracas owed its legitimacy not to any credible national security threat to America.
Rather, it was an exclusively White House-based move openly serving its plutocratic objective of gaining American corporate access to Venezuela's unrivalled reserves of heavy crude and other mineral riches.
Trump lamely insisted that a national security threat existed because drugs were flooding into America. This was thin given that fentanyl does not come from Venezuela, and cocaine comes overwhelmingly from Colombia.
It looks even odder though against the fact Trump had just freed a convicted narco-criminal two months prior.
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez was found guilty in 2024 of orchestrating the shipment of more than 200 tons of cocaine(!) into the United States. For this major crime, a US court had handed down a lengthy 45 year prison sentence.
Yet in November, Trump pardoned Hernandez explaining that the Honduran had........