This Saturday, January 3, 2026, will remain etched as a dark date in modern history.
The United States launched a military aggression against Venezuela, with airstrikes and explosions resounding over Caracas and several surrounding states, and announced the capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, forcing them out of the country after a large-scale military operation.
This escalation demonstrates the drift towards imperialism and a total disregard for the sovereignty of an independent state. This event is part of a long cycle of repeated violations of international law by Washington.
This aggression definitively demonstrates that the world has become a jungle, where the strongest impose their will, where American imperialism acts like a thug with no regard for international law. Yesterday it was Baghdad; today Caracas; tomorrow, perhaps Havana or Bogota. And who next? Other Western states, complicit through their alignment, will in turn feel free to trample borders that do not belong to them. The irresponsibility of this policy is unprecedented.
The United States claims to be a giant, but it is a giant with feet of clay, having built its superpower status on a Hollywood myth and manipulated historical narratives. We were sold the idea that America “saved the world from Nazism” in 1945, while the reality of the losses shows that it was primarily Soviet soldiers who paid the heaviest price against Hitler’s army. This sanitized narrative still serves today as the foundation for an excessive arrogance.
This hegemony bears a striking resemblance to the tyrannical regimes it claims to fight: it rules through terror, imposing itself by force, without moral legitimacy. And like those regimes, it is inherently fragile. A strategic response from a power like Russia or China, or both combined, would be enough to show that behind the veneer of power lies a balloon, inflated with propaganda and ready to deflate in the face of genuine opposition.
The aggression against Venezuela, with the capture of its president, does not mark the end of history, but the beginning of an even more volatile era. A world where the law of the strongest prevails, and where American power, far from being unchallenged, appears as a dangerous illusion.
