US is a Threat to the Whole World

Venezuela: a declaration of war by the US on the whole world!
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By: Fred Schumacher

[This article posted on 1/5/2026 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://globalbridge.ch/venezuela-eine-kriegserklaerung-der-usa-an-die-ganze-welt/]



With the attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife, he is showing that he doesn't give a damn about international law. He does what he wants: US President Donald Trump (photo: Brandon AP)



(Ed.) What the US has now achieved in Venezuela through sheer force – and, as is suspected, by bribing influential people – is clearly more than a regional event. The world – the whole world, the West, the BRICS countries, the Global South – must take note that the current US President Donald Trump does not abide by any rules, but simply does whatever he pleases. The economic interests of the US justify any outrageous act on his part. This must therefore be perceived as a warning worldwide. (cm)

The unprovoked military attack by US forces on Venezuela, combined with the terrorist act of kidnapping the country's president on the morning of January 3, is not a slip-up in the US president's otherwise globally peace-oriented policy. Donald Trump has been touting the latter as a claim since the beginning of his second term in office, striving, as international press reports repeatedly emphasize, to award himself the Nobel Peace Prize.

The fact is, however, that on January 8, 2025, a year ago, the tabloid New York Post made headlines with a Trump collage about his vision for the hemisphere: Canada as the 51st state of the US, Greenland as part of the US, Panama with its canal as well, and a renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Using Trump's first name Donald, the bold headline read The Donroe Doctrine.

For months, sa fleet of US warships, including aircraft carriers and air force, unprecedented in decades, has been cruising the Caribbean. It is threatening Venezuela under the pretext of a blatant accusation of “drug trafficking” by the government, even going so far as to seize tankers carrying Venezuelan oil in violation of international law. This war, which has been going on for months, has already claimed hundreds of live among ship crews in the region without any court rulings.

After the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife, Trump openly stated that the US would take over the country's government and return the oil production nationalized by Venezuela decades ago to the “familiar” hands of US corporations, which had previously been at the source there.

A brief look at the history of colonialist crimes under the name of the so-called Monroe Doctrine makes it clear how current events should be classified and, above all, what can be expected in the future:

1846–48: War of aggression by the US against Mexico, including massacres of civilians and expropriation of indigenous and Mexican populations, resulting in the annexation of approximately 55% of Mexican territory (now California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, etc.).

1893–98: Overthrow of the legitimate Hawaiian monarchy with US support, resulting in the incorporation of Hawaii into the US.

From 1901: Several military actions against Cuba, resulting in a protectorate lasting for decades and the ongoing occupation of part of Cuba (Guantanamo).

This was followed by long-term military occupations with the installation of US-aligned regimes in Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, including massacres of insurgents and the establishment of repressive national guards.

1954 CIA coup against the democratically elected government (Jacobo Árbenz) in Guatemala, resulting in the genocide of the Maya population (over 200,000 dead).

1970–73: Destabilization and instigation of a military coup against Salvador Allende. Result: Pinochet's dictatorship, thousands murdered, disappeared, tortured.

1980s: Nicaragua (Contra War), financing and arming of the Contras, terrorizing the civilian population, destroying civilian infrastructure. The International Court of Justice (1986) condemned the US for violations of international law.

This was followed by a US invasion of Panama with thousands of civilian casualties, economic sanctions, and support for coups in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Honduras, accompanied by systematic disregard for state sovereignty, suppression of democratic movements, aiding and abetting torture, murder, and disappearances, and economic coercion with massive civilian damage.

The “Donroe Doctrine” thus fits seamlessly into international politics, which is driven by capital interests such as those of the US oil industry and large US agricultural corporations, regardless of whether the US president is a Democrat or a Republican. For decades, politicians in Europe, Asia, and Africa have trusted in the supposed fact that the circles that determine US policy would be satisfied with hegemony over part of the Western world, primarily the whole of America.

Let us broaden our view to include the actions of US administrations even after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, which they dominated in Europe, and also their recently reinvigorated presence in the Chinese Ocean: everything points to the hegemonic policy known as the Monroe Doctrine being extended to the whole world rather than scaled back. This is, of course, accompanied by constant declarations of peace. Donald Trump is a master at verbally brushing aside such contradictions. Who can guarantee that the recent attack on Russian leader Vladimir Putin's residence, which can be interpreted as an attempted assassination by Ukrainian soldiers, was not precisely timed to coincide with the events in Venezuela?

Presidents, and politicians in general in all countries worldwide, must now know that anyone who has eliminated a head of state through acts of state terrorism is tempted to do the same to others who stand in their way.