Venezuela: if China loses, world loses |
With its response to Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, Israel began dismantling the rules-based order under the United Nations. Bit by bit it exterminated over 70,000 and forced nearly two million Palestinians out of Gaza while reducing most of the territory to rubble.
With the January 3 abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Donald Trump literally trashed the International Law and reduced the world's largest, fund-guzzling bureaucracy United Nations to zilch — making fun of it as much as Netanyahu and his ministers have been doing since October 2023.
In a brazen display of political hypocrisy, TV channels and media in Europe, Canada and the US have been instructed to avoid using word "kidnapping/abduction" and instead refer to "arrest of Venezuelan President Maduro".
For supporters, Donald Trump has acted only to create an energy leverage and deny China cheaper oil, including from Iran and Venezuela. They call it a strategy which Trump thinks would exploit China's dependence on imported energy and thus be able to shape global power. Trump believes, it seems, that power doesn't come from energy but from who controls it. The assumption of the pro-camp is that China would be the ultimate loser of billions of dollars worth of investments in Venezuela and its neighbourhood (Columbia, Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil) under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Detractors of the hostile US action in violation of the International Law put the same........