Fight U.S. Imperialism!

**Arbejderen’s Opinion


On January 3, the United States attacked Venezuela, an assault that had been prepared for over several months. In connection with the attack, the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, was kidnapped and is now charged in New York with so-called “narco-terrorism.”

This single event has turned world politics completely upside down. Heads of state do not know how to respond to the actions of the United States and appear, above all, to be entirely paralyzed.

All of this is happening because the United States is now openly doing what anti-imperialists have known for decades that it does: using its overwhelming military power to subjugate and plunder smaller nations.

Mainstream media speak of this as something unique and new, but those who have followed the history of U.S. imperialism know that there is nothing new under the sun. The only thing new about the attack on Venezuela is the way the American government talks about the motives behind it.

Although a narrative portraying Maduro as the leader of a drug cartel and Venezuela as a major exporter of fentanyl has been attempted and disproven, Donald Trump said it very directly at a press conference on the very day the attack took place:

“American oil companies must enter the country and rebuild the oil industry […] No one will ever again question the total dominance of the United States in the Western Hemisphere,” the president declared.

The bluntness is new; the motives and methods are not. The United States has a long history of regime-change operations and invasions of Latin American countries. One need only recall Chile in 1973, when the U.S. installed a brutal military dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet, or the invasion of Panama in 1989.

Only Venezuelans have the right to determine the direction of their own country, not Trump, not the U.S. military, nor other imperialists who seek only to plunder and exploit the country’s resources, which rightfully belong to the people.

The United States has never followed the rules of the game that it has historically demanded the rest of the world follow. International law is merely a tool in the U.S. geopolitical game, not a principle it feels obliged to respect itself.

If a country refuses to allow itself to be plundered and exploited by the United States, the military is deployed, regardless of what the international community may say.

This has been the case since the end of the Second World War, and this is clearly how Trump wants it to continue.

This was also made clear in the new U.S. security strategy. The Western Hemisphere is the United States’ near abroad, and therefore it claims the right to do exactly what it wants in that region.

That quite rightly makes other countries in the region nervous.

Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico have already been told that they could be next in line to face attacks and coups. The attack on Venezuela could quickly create a domino effect, in which every country in South America that refuses to submit to imperialism is forced to do so militarily.

Here at home, all of Trump’s talk about annexing Greenland is now seen in an entirely different light.

If the United States always reserves the option to attack and take over other countries without consulting anyone, how long will it be before American troops are standing in Nuuk?

Nevertheless, both the Danish and the broader European response remains confined to words. The attack is condemned as a violation of international law, yet the removal of Maduro is still praised, the lies about drug smuggling are repeated, and the sanctions against Venezuela and its population are maintained.

If one genuinely wants to fight U.S. imperialism, such reactions are not good enough. The United States must be forced out of Venezuela, the country’s right to self-determination must be defended, and the kidnapped president, Maduro, must be released.

Otherwise, it is only a matter of time before the United States does exactly the same thing in another country, whether it be Cuba or Greenland.

Only Venezuelans have the right to determine the direction of their own country, not Trump, not the U.S. military, nor other imperialists who seek only to plunder and exploit the country’s resources, which rightfully belong to the people.




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