US President Donald Trump’s decision to take the driver’s seat has up-ended geopolitics. Everything that seemed certain only a few weeks ago – before the sequestering of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro from a fortified structure in Caracas without sustaining a single casualty – is now different.
In the Venezuelan capital, the United States demonstrated a level of military power that could have been inferred, but hadn’t been on full display in many years, if not decades. Trump revealed a level of conviction and therefore political power that has put the world on edge. The will to impose his vision of what the world should look like has definitely sparked fear in his adversaries’ eyes, especially smaller ones from a geopolitical viewpoint, such as Iran. It also appears as an unexpected windfall for his allies (at least those who are ideologically aligned to him) as Trump seeks to carve out Washington’s sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere, putting pressure on Europe through NATO, apparently looking for concessions to Russia’s Vladimir Putin in order to end the war in Ukraine – and looking to annex Greenland from NATO ally Denmark.
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