https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/no_author/trumps-turbo-charged-rogue-regime-exposes-pathetic-european-vassals/

Strategic Culture
January 10, 2026

In a bitterly ironic way, Trump’s reckless arrogance is to be welcomed. He has discarded the Western mask of duplicity and pretense, which at least makes it clear what the Western system is all about. What we see is something barbaric and ugly, like the fascism of former times.

The international order is being trashed right in front of the world’s eyes. The United States under Donald Trump has become a full-fledged rogue state, blatantly operating on the maxim that might is right. This was always the modus operandi of the US hegemon. With Trump, it has become turbo-charged.

Any pretense of rules-based order has been jettisoned. Trump is openly bragging that there is no such thing as international law and that there are no limits on the unilateral exercise of U.S. power.

In the space of a week, the Trump regime has:

Launched a deadly aggression against Venezuela, kidnapped its president and commandeered the country’s vast oil wealth;
Seized cargo ships belonging to Russia and China in violation of maritime laws;
Threatened military assault on several sovereign nations, including Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba;

Threatened to forcibly annex the Arctic territory of Greenland, which is legally part of Denmark;
Escalated bombing of Somalia, the seventh country that Trump has bombed during the first year of his second terms as president;
Fabricated barefaced lies to excuse the extrajudicial killing of an innocent American citizen by U.S. federal agents, while warning Iran of military action if the Iranian government represses street protests, protests that many believe have been incited by American and Israeli covert agencies.
Of all the rogue conduct, arguably the worst is the multiple war crimes involved in attacking Venezuela which resulted in as many as 100 deaths. Trump’s charade of combating alleged narco-terrorism has been brazenly ditched. He is now celebrating the take over of Venezuela’s oil wealth for the benefit of U.S. Big Oil companies.

This barbarism is out-and-out imperialism with fascist arrogance. Trump has taken the world back to the early 20th century when gunboat diplomacy was openly wielded with cynical euphemism. During the 1900s, consecutive U.S. presidents routinely invaded countries in Latin America, massacring populations, installing murderous dictators, and running amok to expropriate natural resources. Trump has flagrantly touted the 1823 Monroe Doctrine as his prerogative, dictating to Venezuela and other Latin American nations to sever all ties with China and Russia.

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