"The moral purpose of civilized society is to prevent the stronger from attacking and exploiting the weaker. Otherwise, we’d be permanently immersed in a brutish war in which only the fittest and most powerful could survive."

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/8

"Nearly a year ago, I heard an American woman tell a large room full of people that the recently inaugurated US president was going to bring about world peace. Implying that she had special links to the new administration, she explained that Trump, Putin and Xi Jin Ping were going to divide the planet into three spheres of influence."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/14

https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/spheres-of-influence

"Today, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper: 'We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,' he said. 'These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-5-2026-monday

"Nearly a year ago, I heard an American woman tell a large room full of people that the recently inaugurated US president was going to bring about world peace. Implying that she had special links to the new administration, she explained that Trump, Putin and Xi Jin Ping were going to divide the planet into three spheres of influence."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/14

https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/spheres-of-influence

"Across the globe, leaders are rediscovering an old idea: that power itself is legitimacy."

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/13

"That post-war bargain held for decades not because leaders became more kind, but because breaking it was understood to be catastrophic to humanity. War between major powers didn’t disappear – it was constrained, contained, laundered through diplomacy and proxy conflict rather than open conquests.

That restraint is eroding before our eyes."

~ Evan Fields

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/12

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/fourth-and-democracy-narco-terror

"And in declaring such dominance, the United States is signaling to China and Russia that they have no choice but to respond in kind — to control their own spheres of influence, by force if necessary."

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/11

Julie Roginsky sees what Trump has just done as "the first clear salvo of World War III":

"It is a geopolitical declaration that the United States claims not just security prerogatives, but territorial and economic dominion over an entire hemisphere."

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/10

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-first-salvo-of-world-war-iii

"Watch the frothing blood lust and madness of Stephen Miller on CNN last night. I know its hard to watch him but you need to see this. At one point he says:

'Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO.'"

Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #Venezuela #Greenland #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/9

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-trump-regime-is-full-of-dangerous

"The moral purpose of civilized society is to prevent the stronger from attacking and exploiting the weaker. Otherwise, we’d be permanently immersed in a brutish war in which only the fittest and most powerful could survive."

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/8

"Trump’s domestic and foreign policies — ranging from his attempted coup against the United States five years ago, to his incursion into Venezuela last weekend, to his current threats against Cuba, Colombia, and Greenland — undermine domestic and international law. But that’s not all.

They threaten what we mean by civilization."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/7

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-threat-to-civilization

"Trump just gave Putin and Xi permission to redraw the map ... The global order, or all of its weak points, flaws, quirks, and injustices, has kept us out of a major-power war since 1945. A shake up in this system of alliances could lead to a rejiggering of economic alliances, military alliances, and, says Brian Daitzman of The Intellectualist, World War III."

~ Sam Osterhout and Brain Daitzman

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #Putin #Xi
/6

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-just-gave-putin-and-xi-permission

"It is a concept that eschews morality and values, kicks international and domestic law to the curb and invites disaster for the U.S., our neighbors and the world.

It is the same thuggish, blood-soaked approach to the international relations that guided Hitler, Stalin and virtually all of the great monsters of the past."

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/5

"WaPo: 'The WH is weighing giving Stephen Miller a more elevated role in overseeing post-Maduro operations in Venezuela, according to one person with knowledge of the conversations.'”

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/3

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-280-1526

"Today, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper: 'We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,' he said. 'These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-5-2026-monday

Mit Verlaub, nichts daran ist komplex. #Trump bekennt offen, dass es ihm ums Öl geht. Der Stärkere nimmt sich, was er will. Europa sollte nicht kuschen, sondern selbstbewusst für das Recht eintreten. Sonst wird es zwischen Trump, #Putin und #Xi zerrieben. www.tagesschau.de/inland/reakt...

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