Trump’s Imperialism: U.S. Foreign Policy Adopts a Fascist Character

By David Starr

 

In his utter insanity, Donald Trump has been threatening a host of countries with potential military force. Canada, Mexico, Panama, China, Greenland. Recently, the latest target for threats has been Venezuela. 

 

The U.S. empire has sent three war ships accompanied by 4,000 marines near Venezuela. The Trump regime’s threats reflect the old imperialism of the empire, only being more direct and thus taken on fascist characteristics.

 

On August 7, 2025 regime attorney general Pam Bondi announced an increase in a bounty on Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro to $50 million. Bondi declared that Maduro was a “narco-terrorist.” The excuse this time for threatening another nation was to fight “drug cartels.” None of the sweet talk about freedom and democracy.

 

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt added to the propaganda, saying that the Trump regime will use “all American power” to stop drugs from getting into the United States, and “bring those responsible to justice.” Being part of the regime, Leavitt (along with Bondi) is unqualified to make any judgements given the fact that her dear leader is a criminal.    

 

But anyone with common sense can see through this whole thing. It’s really to make a power grab for Venezuela’s oil and an attempt at regime change to put in a more pliable U.S. client as leader, like the pathetic Juan Guaido. But the imposing of Guaido as a fake president failed.

 

And it could be that the knuckle-dragging chest thumping of the Trump regime could fail as well. Venezuela has organized 4.5 million members in militias to defend the country. Most Venezuelans will not put up with another imperial campaign by the U.S. empire.

 

In an interview on Times Now World, Maduro explained the situation and showed understandable defiance against the empire. 

 

There have been other countries entering the potential fight against U.S. invasion by supporting Venezuela. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has warned the empire about committing an act that would violate international law. China’s President Xi Jinping made clear that this won’t be tolerated and emphasized restraint.   

 

The Russian Federation and Iran have also expressed their support for Venezuela.

 

Actually, U.S. foreign policy has usually been on the same gutter level as Nazism. Racism and ultranationalism are contained in both, which have been overt in the goal of conquering other nations. But there is ironically a key difference: the U.S. fought Nazi Germany during WWII. There are those who see this as an inter-imperialist rivalry, although both United States corporations and Nazi Germany shared some economic benefits.

 

Writing for Anticonquista, Carlos Cruz Mosquera asserts that Western liberalism is just as bad as Nazism: 

 

“If there is any ideology that is historically more dangerous and extreme than Nazism, it is Western liberalism. Yet, these two aspects of Western imperialism are deceptively positioned against each other, attempting to conceal that fact that they are born of the same cloth.

 

“To be clear, this piece does not seek to defend nor absolve Nazism or U.S. president Donald Trump. It’s worth invoking here the ideological position of many colonies during WWII, which saw Adolph Hitler as someone dipping his toes in the pool of genocide, while Western allies have been swimming in it for centuries.”

 

It may be more accurate to say that Western liberalism and Nazism are both equally repulsive. Traditionally, Western liberalism has preached freedom and democracy, and there’s been a degree of both, but more in the West than elsewhere. In the Global South, nations have been the recipients of instability, poverty and violence on many occasions precisely due to the objectives of Western “democracies,” the latter in full exploitation mode in using and abusing the labor, resources and land of the Global South. And this helped by local elites who overwhelmingly had, and have, the backing of U.S. imperialism.

 

Nowadays, those degrees of freedom and democracy in the United States, and elsewhere, have been more threatened by the likes of a Trump regime’s Nazi-like agenda. There is no longer an emphasis on preaching freedom and democracy, but there is the continuance of demonizing leaders and nations who are stereotyped as “evil enemies” although this label does not always apply.

 

China, Russia and Iran, who have been those “evil enemies” of the U.S. empire, may do more than support Venezuela if the Trump regime acts on its threats. Meanwhile, there has been the probability of Venezuela joining the BRICS movement which has a goal of implementing a multi-polar world to counter the bi-polar world traditionally dominated by the United States and the West.

 

BRICS, an acronym for the countries that co-founded it–Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa–has become increasingly popular especially with the nations of the Global South. 

 

The Trump regime’s foreign policy is doomed to failure. One could say it has already failed. The U.S. empire, along with its “spoiled child” Israel, have become very unpopular worldwide. 

 

That could lead to the stopping of U.S. hostility if enough people worldwide rebel against it. And countries like Venezuela could finally find stability, economic prosperity, respect and peace in what could turn out to be a multi-polar world.