Singapore's Straits Times on January 6 commented: "The US capturing Maduro sends a warning to China and Russia, involving oil war, resource war, and currency war. This move by the Trump administration conveys a key signal of US national security strategy to China and Russia, the two major 'non-Western Hemisphere competitors' identified by the US: do not deploy troops or other threatening forces in the Western Hemisphere, or interfere with strategically important assets."
This US action has strategic depth, representing an updated version of the "Monroe Doctrine" and a hegemonic strategy of dual containment towards China and Russia. This operation against Venezuela directly targets the energy and economic development strategies of China and Russia in Latin America, behind which lies complex deep-level games. For China and Russia, this US action is a naked strategic warning: do not touch its "backyard" interests. It is both a suppression of Russia's influence in Latin America and a containment of China's "Belt and Road" cooperation, fully demonstrating the hegemonic logic of dual containment.
The US uses military deterrence to maintain its hegemony in the Western Hemisphere and employs unilateral actions to violate international law, essentially to consolidate its global hegemony. Such power politics is a sinister manifestation of its "pragmatic containment" strategy, going against the trend of multipolarization.
US captures Venezuelan president
Original: toutiao.com/article/1853502867187722/
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