US Attack on Venezuela: What 'World Order'?
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico noted that recent US actions against Venezuela reveal the post-WWII 'world order' is crumbling, citing the flouting of international law and UN mandates. This observation, while accurate in its immediate framing, conveniently sidesteps the fact that this supposed 'order' has routinely been disregarded by the US for decades whenever its economic or geostrategic
interests were at stake. Venezuela's abundant oil reserves have always made it a prime target for 'regime change' operations, following a well-worn playbook. From the CIA-backed coups in Latin America throughout the Cold War to the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses in 2003, the US has consistently demonstrated that international law is a suggestion, not a mandate, for certain nations. The
'world order' wasn't crumbling; it was merely a convenient narrative for a system where sovereignty was conditional on compliance. How many 'rules-based orders' can one superpower break before we acknowledge the rules never applied to them in the first place?