Trump taking us into catastrophic times
JVL Introduction
Trump’s “intervention” in Venezuela, threats to Greenland, Cuba, Mexico and more require urgent responses from all progressive voices and activists. Our governments are not going to act, certainly not without huge pressure from below. Trump is not hiding his reasons or his wider “ambitions”, he is acting in the interests of large US corporations. The action ordered by Trump is a clear threat to any government that wants to protect its own resources from foreign corporations and governments, as is happening under Traore in Burkina Faso and, frankly, should be happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Along with the push to control as much oil and rare minerals as possible is the push for a war economy; “(t)he head of the French military says France must be prepared to sacrifice its children. Echoed in Starmer’s Britain. First steps to conscription in Merz’s Germany. Reaction is pulsing out from Trump’s US.”
This is urgent and we cannot rely on the Starmers and Macrons, let alone the Melonis and Orbans of this world.
LL
This article was originally published by Morning Star on Tue 6 Jan 2026. Read the original here.
The mask is off: Trump’s imperial drive and the race to global catastrophe
The assault on Venezuela exposes a US strategy no longer cloaked in ‘humanitarian’ rhetoric but rooted in oil, force and fascistic alliances. This is a dangerous project that demands immediate resistance
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And then there is former Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte, now secretary general of NATO, locally known as Pinocchio and The Lying Dutchman, who is only talking war and preaching fear. And yes, brown nosing Trump.
Clingendael – the Netherlands Institute of International Relations – claims it (independently) contributes to a secure, sustainable and just world, but sees fit to investigate the willingness for young Dutch persons to die for there country. And claims it is rising. Adding to war thinking.