Why Venezuela became pawn in Trump's global power play era

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. [AFP]

Donald Trump imagines himself to be a 21st-century Teddy Roosevelt, craving for power and using the presidency as ‘bully pulpit’ to bully his desires into reality. Each proclaimed a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine to empower them to do as they wanted.

Roosevelt, an instigator of the Spanish-American War that practically deprived Spain of its remaining colonies in the Western Hemisphere, offered to collect debts for the Europeans in the Caribbean.