Venezuela strikes are nothing but performative murder

We are all back in the 19th century when the Western Hemisphere was the exclusive domain of the U.S.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, President Donald Trump, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Trumpworld is going to be a place in which the great powers do what they want, limited only by the strength of other great powers, while the lesser countries do what they are told, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 8, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—“If you're on a boat full of cocaine or fentanyl or whatever, headed to the United States, you're an immediate threat to the United States,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in September. So it’s perfectly reasonable for the American armed forces...

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