Barely days into 2026, the US Delta Force seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas and took him to New York to face criminal charges related to narcotics trafficking. US President Donald Trump justified the mission in terms of law enforcement and stated, vaguely, that the US would “run” Venezuela with a focus on rebuilding the oil industry. Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world.

The events in Caracas shocked the world and stirred worries of a new era of 19th-century-style gunboat diplomacy and imperial power politics. In such a world, to quote the great Greek historian Thucydides, “The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.” This prospect is deeply troubli

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