An activist holds an anti-Trump sign during a protest near the U.S. Embassy after the U.S. launched an attack on Venezuela, capturing its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 5, 2026. (Credit: Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)
“In the end, the so-called ‘nation-builders’ wrecked far more nations than they built — and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves,” U.S. President Donald Trump once said in an attempt to differentiate himself from his predecessors, in Riyadh in May 2024, during the first foreign trip of his second term.Given the current context, it’s hard to believe these words came from Trump, who has just kidnapped and deposed his Venezuelan counterpart after launching airstrikes on Caracas.Now, he has just announced that the United States will oversee Venezuela until a “safe, appropriate, and judicious” transition is achievable, while American oil companies will invest billions to rebuild the country’s infrastructure — extractive imperialism in its purest form. Is this Caracas’s...
“In the end, the so-called ‘nation-builders’ wrecked far more nations than they built — and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves,” U.S. President Donald Trump once said in an attempt to differentiate himself from his predecessors, in Riyadh in May 2024, during the first foreign trip of his second term.Given the current context, it’s hard to believe these words came from Trump, who has just kidnapped and deposed his Venezuelan counterpart after launching airstrikes on Caracas.Now, he has just announced that the United States will oversee Venezuela until a “safe, appropriate, and judicious” transition is achievable, while American oil companies will invest billions to rebuild the country’s infrastructure — extractive imperialism in its purest form. Is...
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