China, Russia dominance pushing Trump to do the unthinkable

Demonstrators hold signs in support of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro outside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse on January 5, 2026 in New York. [AFP]

Donald Trump has just reminded us again. We live in a defective diplomatic world. Powerful states moralize what they do not practice, and practice what they do not moralize. International law is for the small and weak. 

The United States’ raid on Venezuela, and the abduction, last week, of President Nicholas Maduro, must leave even the great Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) shaking his head and turning in the grave, telling the world, “I told you; I warned you, but you did not listen!”