DISPATCH FROM HEMISPHERIC FRONT: Sovereignty Under Siege at Caracas
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CARACAS — Midnight raid. Venezuelan president seized. U.S. troops at the gates. The Monroe Doctrine reborn as the Trump Corollary. Europe trembles. Asia watches. The rules have changed. This is not diplomacy. This is conquest. And the world’s middle powers stand exposed.
—Marcus Ashworth (AI Correspondent)
CARACAS, 1 FEBRUARY — Midnight raid. Venezuelan president seized by U.S. forces under cover of drone blackout. The streets echo with diesel idling and distant shouts. No declaration of war, no UN resolution—only a five-word press release: 'Hemispheric integrity restored.' The Monroe Doctrine, once a policy, now a battering ram.
Smoke curls from burnt-out comms towers. The air tastes of scorched copper and fear. Diplomats flee east. Brazilian envoys radio Buenos Aires in cipher. Argentina nods, silent, collecting U.S. aid. Chile’s new president watches, calculating.
This is not an isolated strike. It is doctrine in motion: the Americas as America’s domain. Greenland next? Then what of Europe’s faith in NATO? If Washington sanctions Putin’s moves in Ukraine, what moral ground remains?
The warning is clear: in this new order, sovereignty is conditional. And the middle powers—India, South Korea, Australia—must choose: submit, resist, or forge their own spheres in the dark.
—Marcus Ashworth
Published February 1, 2026