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TRUMP, VENEZUELA AND THE BANKRUPT 'RULES BASED ORDER' (UPDATES)

In the coming days much will be said about the motives for the US to take-over of Venezuela. What has already transpired is symptomatic of the almost total confusion with respect to present geopolitical situation, be it legally or morally. Another point that has pundits' and commentators' panties in a twist, are the economic and monetary consequences of this coup, as well as the geostrategic repercussions with regard to minerals -- oil and gas, but also gold and rare earths -- and the balance of power between the players on the world stage. We will get to that in another post. This Trumpian geopolitical master stroke based on the Monroe doctrine, goes to the heart of just about anything that matters on the globe. 


The US coup in Venezuela illustrates the ideological mess we find ourselves in. It was already clear as day that the old Left versus Right dichotomy is no longer useful, to the extend that it still exists. Venezuela and the US find themselves at the classical opposite ends of this spectrum.

The remnants of the Left will condemn the US move against Venezuela as one bloc. But the supporting side is more complicated. The Neocons, no lovers of Trump as a man or as a President, often oppose him in all kinds of covert ways, but they will support this imperial move. 

The group that supports Trump, is another matter. They divide into those who approve of the move, and those that do not. The China hawks of the America First agenda -- the Steve Bannons, the Alex Joneses and the Jack Posobiecs -- will approve, as will staunch MAGA supporters who are loyal to Trump no matter what he does. 

But the libertarian leaning contingent -- such types as Natali and Clayton Morris, the Duran -- are against any foreign intervention, whatever the motive or the goal. They're 'sort of' pacifist to begin with. They point to international law and pacifist morals for their argumentation. Both are really irrelevant. 

Pacifism is utopian nonsense in and of itself, but the jury is still out if there is such a thing as international law. This is the big question of our time. The post World War 2 liberal rules based order was called into existence in order to prevent armed conflict in the future. But it is idealistic in nature and not rooted in reality. 

We have seen increasingly how these 'rules' are applied rather arbitrarily and based on political expediency. Cutting Kosovo from its Serbian heartland is 'justice', but when Russia takes over Crimea, it's a casus belli. 

The inconsistencies and double standards of the 'rules based order' lay thick over the talking shops in UN associated quangos. The question is, if such a thing as international law even exists.

Law requires a jurisdiction, law enforcement and a punitory system. None of these can exist on a global scale. Unless you want to create a prison planet. When a globally centralized system becomes corrupt, there is no place left to go. No one in his right mind would want to create such a system. Some people do of course, evil people.

Libertarians think any form of government is 'force', but somehow international law, even if it was enforceable, is not. The dumbest ideology on the planet is joined by those that still identify as the political Left.

As do the BRICS aligned nations that many others on the Left now identify as 'autocratic'. Those countries are supportive of the rules based order primarily because it was originally supposed to respect national sovereignty no matter how dictatorial the country is ruled. 

This collides with liberal concepts, nominally supported by the West, the much cited democratic principles and notions of 'human rights'.  You see how messy this is becoming? Do we even know anymore who is democratic and who isn't and what these concepts even mean?

The bind some countries find themselves in is illustrated by Greece's PM, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the leader of a small nation, heavily dependent on the caprices of 'the great powers' for security and cooperation. Logically the country has always supported the diplomatic routes offered by international law. 

The same international law that has tolerated the occupation of the northern half of Cyprus for the last fifty odd years, that feels an urgent need to re-arrange the socks drawer when Turkey issues threats of war for Greece complying with legal UN requirements and is indifferent to Aegean air space violations. 

But Mr Mitsotakis knows very well that he has to navigate a fine line between remaining on the right side of international institutions and the America First President Trump who is the real power broker in the world. Just last month we saw how that policy paid off, big league. 

There's more messy stuff going on in this 'international justice system'. It is based on logic rooted in Utopianism, in things that do not exist in reality.

For starters, it presumes that all nations are equal in power, which clearly they are not. And then there are 'rights' of any description, another non existent principle that requires law, a jurisdiction, law enforcement and a punitory system, but I am starting to repeat myself. 

The UN Charter presumes the existence of nations, but that same international organization is at the forefront of the destruction of the nation state. The UN are the energizing power behind a never ending stream of illegals from the third into the first world, based and in contravention of their own 1951 "Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees", that stipulates the illegibility of 'refugees' coming via safe, third countries.

Exhibit A in hypocrisy is the former German Minister Annalena Baerbock, one of the main architects of German de-industrialization, who has landed a cushy job as the secretary of this year's United Nations General Assembly as she is filling her social media ladders with glamorous Sex In The City type vibes. 


Hypocrisy is laying thick on the altars of the international law crowd. To illustrate how ridiculous the entire transnational, globalist scene has become, here's a series of tweets, reactions from various world leaders and commentators.

But first, watch Mike Benz explaining how truly laughable the whole thing has become. Update: part 2, part 3, part 4. 


Jan. 4, 2026 Mike Benz: Going Going, Back Back, To Venezuela Venezuela (Part 1). Part 2. Part 3. Part 4.


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