From Venezuela to the Levant, the consequences of hegemony demand a new, collective response from the sovereign world.
For decades, the United States has presented itself to the world wrapped in the mantle of freedom and human rights, its Statue of Liberty a global symbol. This image, however, has proven to be a classic case of the “iron fist in a velvet glove.” Today, that glove is slipping, and the bare knuckles of raw power are visible for global public opinion to see.
The facade cracks most blatantly where international law meets imperial interest. Consider the recent assault on Venezuela: a sovereign nation subjected to destabilization, the destruction of its infrastructure, and the shocking spectacle of its elected president being kidnapped and transported to a foreign country. No legal or humanitarian logic can justify such an act. This is not diplomacy; it is state terrorism. It is open brutality and a blatant disruption of the very international rules America claims to uphold. The attack on Venezuela is not an anomaly but a stark symptom of a system that places itself above all others.
The Blowback of Manufactured Chaos
This pattern of creating chaos is not new. Western powers, now gripped by fear over the spread of Takfiri extremism like Al-Qaeda and ISIS, are reaping what they sowed. These monstrous currents are not spontaneous eruptions but the direct progeny of Western interventionist policies. American officials themselves—from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump—have at times acknowledged their government’s role in the creation and arming of these groups. The West lit a fire in the heart of the Middle East, providing the financial, weaponry, and political kindling. Now, the flames threaten their own borders and security. The “war on terror” has revealed itself as a cycle of terror, with the architect often funding the very menace it claims to fight.
The Abdication of the UN and the Imperative for a New Order
The United Nations, conceived as a bulwark against world wars and genocide, stands neutered in the face of this reality. It has become an institution whose authority is routinely vetoed or ignored by the very power that hosts its headquarters. When one nation can militarily intervene from Iraq and Afghanistan to Syria and Venezuela with impunity, considering itself bound by no boundaries, the post-war order is dead.
Therefore, the central question of our time is not how to reform a broken system, but how to build a new one. The world must move decisively beyond the era of domination and towards an order founded on justice for all nations, not the interests of one.
A Call for Sovereign Collective Action
The moment for passive lament is over. The time has come for decisive, collective action by sovereign states, particularly those within the Non-Aligned Movement and the emerging Global South. They must define and activate a new mechanism to counter American unilateralism. This is not a call for alliance against a nation, but for solidarity in defense of a principle: the irreducible right to national sovereignty and a multipolar world.
Even traditional American allies in Europe now find their civilizations and social fabric under strain from the consequences of Washington’s policies and the pressure of its bullying. Europe, too, must seriously reconsider its path. The future of human society depends on breaking free from this atmosphere of brutality.
The choice is clear: continue under a dying hegemony that breeds violence and instability, or forge a new consensus where nations engage not as master and vassal, but with mutual respect. The unraveling of the old order is not a crisis, but an opportunity—an urgent summons for the world to finally grow up and govern itself.
