{"id":966,"date":"2026-01-06T10:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/trumps-new-world-order-is-being-born-and-venezuela-is-just-the-start-owen-jones\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:41:43","slug":"trumps-new-world-order-is-being-born-and-venezuela-is-just-the-start-owen-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/trumps-new-world-order-is-being-born-and-venezuela-is-just-the-start-owen-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s new world order is being born \u2013 and Venezuela is just the start | Owen Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president has been quite clear that Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland are in his sights. We must believe himAs Venezuela\u2019s skyline lit up under US bombs, we were watching the morbid symptoms of a declining empire. That may sound counterintuitive. After all, the US has kidnapped a foreign leader, and Donald Trump has announced that he will \u201crun\u201d Venezuela. Surely this looks less like decay than intoxication: a superpower high on its own force.But Trump\u2019s great virtue, if it can be called that, is candour. Previous US presidents draped naked self-interest in the language of \u201cdemocracy\u201d and \u201chuman rights\u201d. Trump dispenses with the costume. In 2023, he boasted: \u201cWhen I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil, it would have been right next door.\u201d And this was no off-the-cuff remark. The logic of an oil grab, and much more besides, is laid out plainly in Trump\u2019s recently published National Security Strategy. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president has been quite clear that Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland are in his sights. We must believe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}