Return to the chaotic West. The kidnapping of the legal president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores by American specialities and military can be considered a political implementation of a movie script on the "Wild West", proclaiming the "powerful law" – the principles of the jungle.
This political act of war, on the another hand, should be considered an event starting the fresh 4th of the 21st century. This is the spectacular end of the PAX Americana era and its accompanying global westernization, which reached the beginning of this millennium its apogee. However, Venezuelan operations disagree from erstwhile US acts of lawlessness and barbarous force by not being accompanied by any attempts at pseudo-democratic, pseudo-freedom justifications by president Trump and his officials. The language of their arguments is openly cynical, unethical, undemocratic, colonizing. They openly say that the intent of this war operation is to control Venezuelan oil deposits – previously sanctioned by the US, which led Venezuela to an economical collapse and radically impoverished its society.
A communicative showing imaginary social arguments – improving Venezuelan standard of surviving – or freedom – the liberation of the Venezuelan people from the power of the "socialist Maduro regime" – for this Washington war operation are portrayed by politicians and opinionative environments outside D. Trump's presidential circle. Both its supporters and opponents, both in the United States and the remainder of the planet – transatlantic globalists. The search for justification for this war operation is an effort to save the image of hegemon, who in contempt for the remainder of the planet exposed his actual face. Not only did the planet see him defeat his repeatedly weaker opponent – not only the technological and logistical superiority of American specialities and troops, but besides the weakness of people around Maduro who betrayed their president. The planet heard the full fact from Hegemon: it is the national interest of the United States, or Venezuelan oil.
Civilization End Pax Americana
Venezuelan operation is simply a thoughtful act of applicable implementation of what officials do Donald Trump They wrote in the American National safety strategy published in late 2025. It identifies the full Western hemisphere as an exclusive US sphere of influence in which Washington will fight for “respect of its own national interest”. On the ground of geopolitics, Venezuelan operation is simply a public return to the nineteenth century presidential doctrine James Monroe of 1823. Her guiding thought was the thought of the United States ruling over American continents, expressed most prominently in the slogan “America for Americans”. In the current context of civilization and culture, specified implementation of policies before 200. years is simply a pure form of colonialism against which Monroe's doctrine was directed. And as a form of colonialism, it can only be a short-lived tactical triumph by president Trump, eager to win in the ever-increasing home situation of the US.
From the point of view of axiology, geoculture and geopolitics, the kidnapping of the president - and his wife - legally exercising power in a sovereign country means the return of the United States to the "Wild West" era – the lawlessness of the jungle, dangerously bringing humanity closer to this kind of chaotic world, which Shukhov says Aleksandra Solzenicin in “One Day of Ivan Denisovich”. The hero of the Russian Nobel Prize laureate, coming from the front to the russian camp, heard a informing from his first foreman, which he accepted as a memento of the GUŁAG: "Here, boys, there is only 1 law – a taiga". The American manifestation of "strong law" already results in the anticipation of permanent chaos and the cascading of weaker states by the stronger. Colonial vassalization, bringing even more misery to the population of countries already robbed by various Western projects of global liberalism. An anthropological-ethical origin will be an crucial origin at a fresh phase promoted by Washington's vassal colonization of sovereign states, cumulated in the criterion of trust towards who dictates "the law of strong". It can besides be an inspiration for seeking political partners among the countries of the second hemisphere for which China and Russia are leaders.
For these leaders, the Venezuelan operation did not scare, nor did it turn on the trajectory of the retaliatory global escalation, which is most likely what Pax Americana counted for. possibly he besides hoped to normalize barbarism, the remainder of which the average planet does not accept. This is evidenced by the declarations made by key geopolitical players rejecting the "strong law" and thus the way to global chaos and global conflict, with the possible of utilizing weapons of mass destruction. The peace of China and Russia are of top political importance here. They can besides attract many countries frightened by president Trump to the block of the Western world.
Impact of cultural codes
Venezuelan operation was war-like due to the fact that the kidnapping of president Maduro involved, in addition to specials, soldiers of American military formations, formerly active in the liquidation of allegedly narcosic Venezuelan boats and accused of committing war crimes on their civilian flow. This version of the events was presented by Nicolas Maduro himself, to whom the fresh York court has set 4 charges: participation in drug terrorism, the bringing of cocaine to the United States and 2 additional ones—related to possession of prohibited weapons. At the first court meeting, the blamed Venezuelan leader did not plead guilty, declaring that he was not a criminal—he is the president of Venezuela and a prisoner of war. This supposedly "surgical" war action against Venezuela ended in the death of non-drug-related innocent people. Their number – yet not yet established – is most likely about 100 people, most of whom are Cuban soldiers (from the protection of the president) and Venezuelan soldiers. Among them are besides accidental civilian casualties inactive found.
Acting president of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez – although forced to cooperate with the American president on Venezuelan oil – she took a patriotic stance – she did not cut herself off from Maduro, she did not go to the opposition side, paid tribute to the victims of American aggression, announcing to them a week of national mourning. This attitude gives her a pass to a fresh phase of Venezuelan politics, confirmed by a morally and culturally crucial message that the victims suffered martyrdom in the name of their homeland: “I have decided to declare 7 days of mourning for the honor and glory of the young, women and men who died, giving their lives in defence of Venezuela and president Nicolas Maduro.”
This is simply a message in the Bolivian spirit: it reminds Venezuelans that the American threat is more crucial than the American threat of oil than the independency of the Homeland. This is the same cultural code that Maduro was faithful to. If, as a prisoner of war, he is not broken or even drugged by psychotropics, he can become a fresh national model for his people. The anthropological-axiological dimension of his unprecedented in fresh kidnapping past is of large importance in strengthening the cultural-national code of Venezuelans inactive infiltrated by the spirit of Bolivir's freedom. This code – and not any ideology – decides to overcome American economical and economical colonialism. This code is an authentic counterweight for the American war code. It will besides have a crucial impact on the destiny of another countries threatened by Trump's agenda for the implementation of the US's "national interest".
American Threat
The war determiner dominated D. Trump's speeches after the Carracas operation – not only with respect to Venezuela, but besides with respect to another countries that are “threating” this interest. The American president presented in them impertinent cynicism as the dominant feature of the current war culture, as highlighted by the appalled Chinese politicians – traditionally calm and balanced. D. Trump openly stated that the American military operation in Caracas was "effective", though "very brutal". However, he did not express any sympathy or regret for their families due to their mortal victims. Trump displays the war code as a code of American DNA in an highly expressive way – just insolent and cynical. It confirms the increasingly popular thesis that the US as a nation state cannot be without war, even erstwhile its president demands the Nobel Peace Prize. And this thesis cannot invalidate any of his peaceful camouflages, whether in Gaza or Ukraine.
Accurate researchers of U.S. past emphasize that Americans are enemies of peace, due to the fact that war is in their cultural and national code. Since the Declaration of independency in 1776, the United States has not waged wars or interfered with another states' policies for only 20 years. Since 1789, the U.S. has had 469 military interventions worldwide, with more than half of them in 1991–2022.
The current U.S. president and his advisors are doing everything possible to establish this opinion of the war code. To make the modified Monroe doctrine – extended to this code – the basis of Washington policy not only for all areas of America, but besides for countries outside the Western hemisphere. Above all, those that have been in U.S. orbit for years. Announcing the invasion of the Western Hemisphere, Trump at the same time does not announce the exit of Americans from the mediate East, Europe, or yet Asian countries. From the U.S. war map, Iran has not disappeared permanently under threat – imposed by American sanctions for decades. The Gaza Strip, whose population is systematically exterminated and erased from the world's list of nations by the "defence" mechanics of American-Israeli national interests, has not been removed from it. Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland, Iran were at a fresh phase of “defensive” US action. Greenland, which is most likely a associate of both the EU and NATO, will go on first fire. The invasion of Greenland will so be a historical test of the solidarity of these structures. This test was announced by Trump himself, and his advisor Stephen Miller briefly justified it: Greenland should belong to the United States due to American national safety and NATO interests.
If the invasion of Greenland becomes a fact, it will mean the end of both the EU and NATO. No associate of these structures will come forward against the USA in defence of another associate State, Denmark. no of them have adequate military potential, but besides political, propaganda, economic, social potential. Everyone – albeit to an uneven degree – is addicted to Washington. Many politicians above all in EU countries are not even able to put the question: whether the Americans will bring their bases out of Europe and erstwhile it will happen. Many, and above all, leading politicians in the EU and NATO cannot ask specified a question in a free manner, due to the fact that not anyone else, but they are inactive begging Washington for the presence of US troops in Europe, and above all in Ukraine. At the head of this political group which does not see in this presence the sign of the European apocalypse riders, are – of course – Poles, all from the establishment arrangement, too which there are only both Confederations.
For decades, American-transatlantic propaganda has been telling modern societies that the West is simply a "imperium of good" which has opposed the "imperium of evil" – as he described Ronald Reagan USSR. It is simply a “free world” that carries humanity freedom and democracy and fresh “rights” of man – e.g. abortion or sex change on request. Despite full discredit – above all moral and anthropological – of this planet and the fresh global order, various American and vassal Polish Americans from various political camps proceed to cultivate the compromised propaganda of transatlantic globalism, perpetuating Warsaw as a servant of Washington. A servant who will always find an excuse for his overseas master. They do not see that falling hegemon may endanger our existence, they do not want to admit that real is different from the “Russian danger”, that the American danger has become a reality not only of the fresh Year – 2026 – but besides of the fresh 4th of the 21st century. The falling hegemon can effort different ways – e.g. to change the servant or turn his area into a battlefield of war – to keep his position in the world.
In a strategical perspective, the U.S. operation in Venezuela is an unforgivable U.S. error, announcing problems with the Venezuelan people with the Bolivian spirit of freedom; while in the global arena it means the limitations always brought sooner or later by the fame of Herostrates, the evil gendarme. On an axiological and anthropological grounds, kidnapping president Maduro and his wife is simply a crime whose effects do not expire. According to the title of F. Dostoevsky's novel, there is no crime without punishment. It's bad fame that's the punishment right now. Not only is it enjoyed by “democracy in American” or by the U.S. towards the war in Ukraine “peace by force” – it is with negative connotation to the lexicon of civilization and culture that the “American kidnapping” will enter.
For the degraded civilization and culturally Western Venezuelan operation does not bode well either. It discredits morally the president of the United States and his surroundings as initiators of cultural counter-revolution, which was to reconstruct the anthropological and moral order of Christian civilization. Anyone who knows small about the principles of Christian ethics knows that a good goal cannot be achieved through bad means. He remembers the evangelical message “Win the Good of Evil” to which Fr Jerzy Popieluszko served for his martyrdom. He admits that the planet cannot be repaired on the basis of a "right stronger" rule demonstrated by the American President. This rule so rejects cultural counter-revolution. The conservative environments active in its implementation, including the American ones, indicate Christian moral values as norms of modern human life and symbolism of the cross, from which we read the meaning of our existence: Caritas sine fashion – love without borders of all forever. Morally discredited – besides in support of the genocide in Israel in Gaza – D. Trump ceases to be the face and leader of this counter-revolution. His principles of the chaotic West have from the beginning remained and stay in manifest contradiction with the harmony of being in Christian civilization, realized on the basis of the inseparable unity of Truth, Good, Beautiful as ultimate values.
Prof. Anna Raźny
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Think Poland, No. 3-4 (18-25.01.2026)
