The global community watches with profound unease as the United States, under the rhetoric of the Trump administration, demonstrates a stark and disruptive approach to foreign policy. The described scenarios – capturing Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, seizing oil resources in the country, expansive territorial ambitions, and coercive pressure on neighbors – paint a picture of a hegemon willing to operate outside established international norms. This unsettling shift mirrors historical patterns of invasion and aggression, plunging the world order to a perilous new low and placing every nation under potential threat.