US Venezuela Invasion Exposes Collapse of International Law

The Chimera is Useless. Welcome Again to the Jungle.

The phantasm of a civilized, law-based administration of battle, the compliance of countries with the foundations of a physique of worldwide regulation established by the League of Nations and the United Nations, is completed. The query stays: has this ever been greater than an phantasm?

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
January 22, 2026

“Worldwide regulation is the physique of authorized guidelines, norms, and requirements that apply between sovereign states and different entities which might be legally acknowledged as worldwide actors. The time period was coined by the English thinker Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832).”

The assault launched by the US towards Venezuela on January third ought to have revealed the true nature of present worldwide relations to even probably the most ardent illusionist.

As a substitute of activating the “worldwide group” to implement worldwide regulation and, if mandatory, restore the authorized establishment ante by army means, the aggression is being met with a couple of boring diplomatic notes. The silence from Moscow, the place, in response to sure Western analysts, the heroic champion of a simply, multipolar world order resides, is nothing in need of deafening in gentle of the assault on a supposed ally.

This supposed “worldwide group”, represented by the UN, has successfully thrown Venezuela beneath a bus and virtually allowed the US to take over this as soon as supposedly sovereign nation.

In 2026, we’re simply as far faraway from the credible purpose of realizing a real group of peoples cooperating peacefully based mostly on universally legitimate and enforceable agreements as we had been on the time of the UN’s founding after World Conflict II. A scandal, actually. However what number of in an countless sequence of scandals, for which the USA bears the first accountability, is that this?

This is identical USA that, for greater than 2 hundred years, has achieved nothing however unleash genocide, battle, and plunder upon the earth, expressing its concern for the destiny of different peoples by means of bombs and missiles. Politically, culturally, and economically, based mostly on the prerogative of the USA as “God’s Personal Nation”, instilled by the founding spirit of the Puritans and sealed with the blood of hundreds of thousands of exterminated Indigenous Individuals, the USA has achieved nothing in its total existence however revenue from the productiveness of others by means of homicide and theft.

That is written by a German whose nation was bombed by the USA — a rustic towards which Germany had by no means taken any army motion — in a marketing campaign of terror unprecedented in its historical past. This marketing campaign not solely systematically destroyed irreplaceable cultural treasures akin to medieval cities, but in addition murdered hundreds of thousands of girls and youngsters. Please forgive my perspective on this killer. It needs to be talked about, merely for the sake of (supposedly usually English) equity, that the British, who bombed the creator’s household dwelling on a chilly October evening in 1943, leaving his grandmother and her three kids homeless, aren’t any higher, if in any respect extra crafty.

With Venezuela as the present lesson in “Realpolitik”, we, the remainder of the world, might now bid farewell to the comfortable dream of a supposedly civilized world ruled by regulation and justice. The so-called “international group” is nothing however a cleaning soap bubble. The UN itself successfully prevents this international group by means of its construction as a dominant physique for the powers united within the Safety Council (UNSC): the USA, Russia (as successor to the Soviet Union), the Individuals’s Republic of China, Nice Britain, and France.

The remainder of the world, the 188 virtually powerless nations, are allowed to current poetically titled visions or impassioned appeals yearly within the Normal Meeting (UNGA). The short-term addition of countries not belonging to the UNSC from the Normal Meeting pool could also be well-intended, but it surely does nothing to vary the true energy and decision-making mechanisms and is subsequently a sham. Or, as Carl Schmitt wrote in 1932: “Whoever speaks of humanity needs to deceive” (“The Idea of the Political,” 1932, p. 55; cf.).

That the United Nations is price combating for is now solely claimed by the standard duo of the deluded and the paid.

Libya chaired the sixty fourth session of the UNGA (2009). Libyan revolutionary chief Muammar al-Gaddafi summarized the truth of the UN, in distinction to its 1945 founding constitution:

“The introduction is enticing, and nobody objects to it. Nevertheless, the following articles essentially contradict the introduction. […] The introduction states that each one nations, giant or small, are equal. Does this equality exist in terms of the everlasting seats on the Safety Council? No, we aren’t equal. The introduction actually states that each one nations, giant or small, are equal. Do we have now the precise of veto? Are we equal? The introduction states that we have now the identical rights, no matter measurement. That’s what the introduction says and what was agreed upon. Thus, the precise of veto and the everlasting seats contradict the spirit of the founding constitution. We don’t acknowledge the precise of veto.” (Supply – PDF file)

Gaddafi referred to as the Safety Council a “terrorist council” and “organized in a feudal method”, and described the Normal Meeting as “pure ornament with out substance.” He recalled that since its founding, the UN had tolerated dozens of wars—he listed probably the most important ones—as an alternative of imposing the prohibition of the usage of drive enshrined within the Constitution. He advocated for transferring the mandates of the Safety Council to the Normal Meeting.

He concluded:
“Libya would welcome it in the event you all would facilitate the transition from a world filled with difficulties and tensions to a world of humanity, peace, and tolerance.”

The Libyan proposals for UN reform have been thwarted. Two years after this speech, Libya was engulfed in a “civil battle” orchestrated and financed from overseas. Gaddafi was brutally tortured and murdered. Affluent and secure Libya was reworked right into a hellhole of a failed state. The principle perpetrators, French President Sarkozy and US President Obama, together with his psychopathic Secretary of State, have been by no means held accountable for the crimes they dedicated towards Libya. They have been allowed to embark on the subsequent battle of terror.

The UN – the world’s physique of Worldwide regulation – additionally was unable or unwilling to forestall or finish the West’s battle of terror towards Syria.

The belief that main powers at all times pursue their precise or perceived pursuits, if mandatory by any means out there, shouldn’t be new; the fashionable period, with the rise of European imperialism, teaches us this straightforward fact. Within the twentieth century, the superpowers, after defining and mutually accepting their spheres of affect (with out consulting the individuals residing there, in fact), preferred to make use of guiding rules like human rights, freedom, and democracy as low-cost however efficient facades for his or her imperialism. This served to deceive the naive and deprive their adversaries of the means to mount a propagandistic counterattack. In any case, anybody who opposes the enforcement of human rights should be thought-about an enemy of humanity.

A bit style?
• Germans in British battle propaganda as “Huns” who slaughtered kids (“Rape of Belgium”),
• a nationalist-minded Iranian president as “The Madman of Tehran,”,
• Syrian President Assad, who poisoned his personal capital through the Western battle on terror, when it was really CIA-backed terrorists.

The worst criminals are those throwing across the noblest phrases for battle propaganda. That is one thing we should always lastly settle for as truth.

The plunderers and murderers of the Potomac have at all times identified this. It’s subsequently to be welcomed that they’ve deserted their disgusting perspective of making an attempt to cloak their genocidal imperialism in candy however meaningless phrases. President Trump now appears to wish to drop the masks. He needs to avoid wasting effort and time as an alternative of continuous to obscure the true intentions of the USA with kitsch and lies.

Within the case of Venezuela, there was additionally an excessive amount of rhetoric first, solely to then briefly pull the easy fact out of a hat. After an preliminary obfuscation marketing campaign, wherein some boats and their crews have been sunk within the Caribbean within the “battle towards drug trafficking,” President Maduro was slandered as the pinnacle of a drug cartel. This allowed the federal government to maintain the evidently brain-dead followers of the MAGA cult in keeping with the pending measures, whereas Trump deployed his warships off the nation’s coast and hijacked oil tankers. If Trump had really been involved with eradicating the drug commerce, he might have focused its headquarters in Langley, which, furthermore, shouldn’t be as removed from the White Home as Caracas. The liberation of the US from the flood of medication was by no means the purpose. And so, the accusations towards Maduro reveal themselves as propagandistic preparation for what was deliberate. Lastly, Trump overtly admitted that he was now not keen to tolerate the sovereignty of the world’s most oil-rich nation, with the really ludicrous clarification that Venezuela had stolen the oil from the US.

Venezuela means the re-implementing of the Monroe Doctrine. On the time, the US thought-about the South, which adhered to it, to be its pure sphere of affect, wherein they felt entitled to rule as they needed. And whereas probably the most distinguished results of their endeavors in Latin America was the transformation of once-independent nations into servile, corrupt, and plundered “banana republics,” the world in the present day is aware of this time period as a style model. Later, the US turned extra beneficiant and easily annexed the complete world (see: “Full Spectrum Dominance“, and “Venture for the New American Century“).

Nevertheless, even the omnipotent, divinely blessed USA can not completely dominate—or fairly, “bless”—the complete world militarily from Washington. Even the MAGA fanatics appear to have come to understand this by now. Their hero, or his puppet masters, knew this way back, and so, in November 2025, Trump issued a brand new US safety doctrine that succinctly, and naturally with the indispensable, pompous DJT self-advertising, describes the rules of US safety coverage on this planet.

The doc is price studying and may be discovered right here: (PDF file).

It fairly bluntly states that the US can now not proceed to care about each sniffle of each fellah or Yakut:

“America is in each respect probably the most beneficiant nation in historical past—but we can not afford to present equal consideration to each area and each drawback on this planet.” (p. 15)

After this revelation, which actually frustrates these much less necessary areas and their issues, we then learn what God’s Personal Nation has deliberate for the world, neatly divided into “areas.”

Oh Maduro! If solely you had learn this little doc…

“After years of neglect, the US will reassert and implement the Monroe Doctrine to revive American preeminence within the Western Hemisphere, and to guard our homeland and our entry to key geographies all through the area. We are going to deny non-Hemispheric opponents the power to place forces or different threatening capabilities, or to personal or management strategically very important belongings, in our Hemisphere. ” (p. 15)

There you might have it.

The seriousness with which the Trump administration is sweeping apart the mendacious, pseudo-humanitarian drivel of previous many years and clearly returning to the previous hegemonic rhetoric is a optimistic factor. In any case, because of this the legions of the highest-paid propagandists are now not capable of justify probably the most heinous crimes towards God’s creation with high-sounding slogans.

Following the chronology, Venezuela was subsequently the prelude to a brand new US overseas coverage engagement aimed toward “defending” the US and securing its pursuits. It’s about “dominance”—as at all times. That’s what powers have at all times been about, so long as states have existed. Rome wouldn’t have change into an empire if it had drunk tea with the Gauls or Carthaginians. Egypt’s Pharaoh Ramses II engaged the Hittites of Asia Minor on the Battle of Kadesh on the Orontes River in Syria. If you wish to perceive profitable conquests, particularly these achieved by means of stratagems, diplomacy, and ways, studying “The Gallic Wars” by Gaius I Caesar is extremely really useful.

The USA, by means of skillful politics and brutal warfare, turned a world energy as a beneficiary of the First and Second World Wars, succeeding the British Empire and remaining to at the present time the nation towards which nobody can successfully assert their very own pursuits.

Nobody can predict with absolute certainty what’s going to change into of Venezuela beneath the thumb of “Daddy” Trump. Maduro’s successor, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, who initially promised that Venezuela would by no means once more change into a colony, now modestly rejoices over the $300 million that the US paid her from the sale of stolen oil price 500 million. This woman, who entered politics beneath Chavez, doesn’t wish to expertise a Washington-style ‘SMO’ and seems to be looking for cooperation.

Ms. Rodriguez could effectively know that anybody who permits themselves for use by the US shall be deserted by the US when the chance arises. Ought to she want to study extra, she might contact the Kurds in Iraq and Syria.

After Venezuela, the stick is now drawn towards Iran, whether or not Trump first takes over Greenland and expands the army occupation, regime-changes Mexico, or annexes Cuba, in the end stays irrelevant, regardless of all sympathy for the affected peoples. There shall be no decisive resistance to any of the upcoming American aggression. The BRICS are merely a debating membership; Russia, managed by the identical troops because the US, India, and eventually China, which at all times performs its personal sport, haven’t reworked the BRICS into an anti-imperialist group (cf.).

That Daddy’s Boy Rutte, of all individuals, might have persuaded the egomaniac in Davos to desert his Greenland ambitions and comply with a kind of “offers” that now change constitutional and worldwide regulation with business regulation is one thing that solely those that have been absent when intelligence was being handed out would imagine.

After Venezuela, the clamor of a multipolar world order proves itself to be nothing greater than the yapping of toothless poodles within the face of a bulldog—or the brazen lies of winking vassals of the evil empire. Putin’s response to the Rutte-Trump deal on Greenland seems to point that the puppet masters in Washington and people in Moscow are both an identical or at the very least share the identical targets. The deliberate large militarization of the Arctic is clearly aimed toward Russia, however that doesn’t appear to hassle the little man from Petersburg — simply as many very important steps taken by the evil empire towards Russia previously hadn’t bothered him.

Clearly, Iran could be effectively suggested to study from North Korea and shortly purchase nuclear weapons.

Due to Trump’s spectacular and profitable efforts within the Center East, America will have the ability to shift its focus there (p. 27). Iran, because the alleged villain of the area (p. 28), will stay in “Daddy’s” sight, because it’s in the end about securing key oil supply and delivery routes for the US and guaranteeing Israel’s existence. Israel, as each youngster is aware of, is an unlawful, terrorist entity on the stolen land of different individuals. With out recognizing the authorized standing and legit calls for of the Palestinians, true peace is unattainable, however peace counts for nothing in comparison with Trump’s Actual Property Goals for the Center East (p. 28), the implementation of which might probably profit his Zionist son-in-law first.

The Individuals’s Republic of China undoubtedly is the US’s predominant rival—Obama had already begun shifting overseas coverage priorities towards Asia. The technique paper aptly states:

“The Indo-Pacific is already the supply of just about half the world’s GDP based mostly on buying energy parity (PPP), and one third based mostly on nominal GDP. That share is definite to develop over the twenty first century. Which signifies that the Indo-Pacific is already and can proceed to be among the many subsequent century’s key financial and geopolitical battlegrounds. To thrive at dwelling, we should efficiently compete there—and we’re.” (p. 19)

One wonders if the that means of the phrase “battlegrounds” might pose any drawback for a peace-loving president aspiring to a Nobel Prize?

In Asia, Washington needs to be “Main from a Place of Energy” (p. 19), with the financial issue being essential, as Trump needs to realign financial relations with China:

“Reciprocity and equity take priority in restoring America’s financial independence.” (p. 20)

We are going to chorus from asking when precisely America ever practiced “equity” in bilateral relations.

To encourage the Chinese language to cooperate on this realignment, army energy (known as “protection” within the doc) and shut cooperation with Washington’s regional “allies” (presumably Washington’s time period for tributary vassals) are additionally mandatory: Japan and South Korea should do extra (spend more cash) to develop the protection measures that Washington considers indispensable for deterring Chinese language affect in China and its surrounding area (see p. 23):

“Importantly, this should be accompanied by a strong and ongoing concentrate on deterrence to forestall battle within the Indo-Pacific. ” (p. 20).

That is written by the president of the very nation that devastated Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, leaving hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in its wake.

The technique paper leaves unanswered the query of which nations would wage battle within the Indo-Pacific WITHOUT US intervention. However even with out battle, which Washington in fact by no means needs, the Indo-Pacific area stays fascinating:

“[…] the US should work with our treaty allies and companions […] to counteract predatory financial practices and use our mixed financial energy to assist safeguard our prime place on this planet economic system and be certain that allied economies don’t change into subordinate to any competing energy. […] Therefore deterring a battle […], ideally by preserving army overmatch, is a precedence.” (p. 23)

Let’s translate that from White Home speak into plain language:
• “to counteract predatory financial practices “—the thief is speaking about stealing; he’s the knowledgeable. Naturally, it infuriates the thief when somebody apart from him will get the large haul. For a similar purpose, no state likes murderers and thieves…
• “be certain that allied economies don’t change into subordinate to any competing energy”—as a result of they’re, in spite of everything, subordinate to the USA, its army and financial would possibly, and that’s the way it’s supposed to remain.
• “preserving army overmatch”—a German doesn’t want any additional clarification on this level, and I assume this additionally applies to the Japanese and Koreans: they, like us, are allowed to totally finance their occupier’s social gathering on their very own occupied soil.

For Europe, the technique paper boasts of nothing lower than the promotion of “European Greatness” (p. 25).

Washington sees the nations of the previous continent on the unsuitable path, one that may speed up financial decline and thus additional diminish the army capabilities of European states:

“Ought to current developments proceed, the continent shall be unrecognizable in 20 years or much less. As such, it’s removed from apparent whether or not sure European nations could have economies and militaries robust sufficient to stay dependable allies.” (ibid.).

Nevertheless, the US cannot afford “to jot down Europe off” (p. 26), as this might run counter to the targets of the brand new technique. In any case, it is usually about “opening European markets to U.S. items and companies and guaranteeing truthful therapy of U.S. employees and companies” (p. 27).

To advertise this realignment, the Trump administration primarily intends to affect the insurance policies of European nations:

“Our purpose needs to be to assist Europe appropriate its present trajectory. We are going to want a robust Europe to assist us efficiently compete and to work in live performance with us to forestall any adversary from dominating Europe. […] We wish to work with aligned nations that wish to restore their former greatness.” (p. 26).

To this finish, the US plans to particularly promote these events in Europe that oppose the present dominant ideology of Europe and that are referred to within the doc as “patriotic European events” (ibid).

The Trump administration has already efficiently aligned these events and their management with Washington.

The truth that representatives of those events, akin to Orban, Meloni, Wilders, Le Pen, and Weidel, are themselves staunch supporters of the unlawful terrorist entity Israel (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-17/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israels-lost-taboo-how-netanyahus-party-is-embracing-europes-far-right-extremists/00000195-9e70-d865-ad95-9f7df0170000 ; https://www.timesofisrael.com/saar-officially-opens-dialogue-with-european-far-right-parties/, https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/24/why-benjamin-netanyahu-loves-the-european-far-right-orban-kaczynski-pis-fidesz-visegrad-likud-antisemitism-hungary-poland-illiberalism/) and even maintains pleasant relations with the assassin Netanyahu ought to give us patriots and nationalists severe trigger to doubt the sincerity of those supposed patriots.

With these courted by Washington and Tel Aviv in Europe’s management, there could now not be a Inexperienced Deal, however there shall be an oppressive “friendship” with people and states whose proximity shouldn’t be with out its risks.

And, lastly, the USA itself? Trump is optimistic:

“What differentiates America from the remainder of the world—our openness, transparency, trustworthiness, dedication to freedom and innovation, and free market capitalism—will proceed to make us the worldwide associate of first alternative.” (p. 22)

Washington is actually assured that the nations courted by the USA, in addition to its expensive “allies”, will selflessly help this purpose with their very own efforts, completely within the USA’s curiosity. And in the event that they don’t accomplish that out of conviction, the hegemon merely has its means.

I suppose Al Capone additionally marketed his safety racket provides in a equally motivating manner.

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
Historian, born in 1964, has labored as a lecturer in grownup training and, amongst others, in Human assets improvement for a US-American firm in Germany.

That is the English translation of an article written in German by the creator, which is why some references discuss with German web sites.

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