As of yesterday, though it was anticipated that President Donald Trump might do it, no war has yet been declared by the United States against Venezuela. Many were , however, baffled, confused, and/or outraged by what President Donald Trump {did} say, in his national television address last night. His speech was laden with hyperbole and falsehoods on the supposed greatness of the largely-destroyed U.S. economy, and about the problem posed by so-called “illegals” entering the country. These involuntary migrations have largely been caused by 30 years of Anglo-American “globalization,” including predatory, hyperinflationary monetary policies, and the resultant deindustrialization of the United States.

Former Fox News host and podcaster Tucker Carlson, in an interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano yesterday afternoon, had said that, according to an unnamed congressional source President Donald Trump would declare war on Venezuela in that national television address. This did not occur.

The speech was also given in the context of a failing NATO, which is dooming itself by preventing a solution to the Ukraine war that would take into account the interest of all parties. Any sane military analyst knows that Russia has already won the war in Ukraine, despite hundreds of billions of dollars in financial and military support to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s failing regime, much of which has been siphoned off by its criminal post-Nazi elite to fill their own pockets. Certain nations in Europe, like Slovakia and Hungary, have now openly revolted against the consensus of the European Union to expropriate Russian financial assets for the purpose of continuing the war. 

Meanwhile, Europe has generally remained silent on the issue of Venezuela. This, like 2014 Ukraine, represents yet another in the series of illegal regime change operations, which President Trump was elected by his base to stop, to “never again” launch such a war of conquest. Unlike the majority of Europe’s willing partners of illegal wars, Russia has openly urged Trump not to plunge ahead against Venezuela at the bequest of his neocon advisors. In a press conference on Wednesday following his meeting Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed out that “regarding the behavior of the United States, namely its actions in the Caribbean, just about every country has expressed disapproval at the measures, except for the Europeans who have chosen silence and discretion.” 

In the real world, there is a real physical economy that continues to collapse in the U.S. and Europe. Trump was most egregious on this point in his national television address. Ironically, it’s in this very area that the U.S. could work with Russia, China, India, and other such nations to resolve the contradiction between the collapsing physical economy and the bloating of fictitious financial assets which have driven the system to a breaking point.

The Trump Administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS) has announced its intention to drive China, and its Belt and Road Initiative out of the Western Hemisphere. Yet, if the U.S. were simply to accept the invitation made by President Xi Jinping to President Barack Obama in 2013 to join that initiative, it could solve all problems, including those related to war and peace. That step would be in the tradition of the real Monroe Doctrine articulated by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams to the emerging sovereign nation-states in Central and South America.

The original Monroe Doctrine was based on a policy of building a community of sovereign nation-states to combat European imperialism and looting. The conceptual strategic problem, is the unrecognized significance, for most Americans, of the outlook of Secretary of State and later President John Quincy Adams, who actually authored the Monroe doctrine. Adams, though largely unknown today, was a far greater president than the pathetic imperialist Theodore Roosevelt. Americans need a crash lesson in how to apply that outlook in the present circumstance regarding Venezuela, Russia, and a truly American foreign policy.

Adams based his foreign policy on mutually beneficial relations with other nations, not war. Were President Trump and others to understand the historical significance of President John Quincy Adams, we could easily make a 180 degree reversal in our foreign and domestic policy today. That is what responsible citizens of the United States must strive to enact as daily political deliberation, and practice, as we, on the 250th anniversary of the nation’s birth, strive to prevent thermal nuclear war by establishing the principles for a new world, strategic and development architecture.