The New Dark Age

The Intercept’s account of Trump’s Venezuela “success” exposes colonial features of the new order, but still stops short of naming the imperial body on the table. Beneath the language of reform and normalization lies a forced recalibration: oil, minerals, law, diplomacy, and public finance are being reorganized under duress while the Bolivarian state struggles to survive an open imperial assault. What looks from afar like accommodation is, in material reality, constrained sovereignty—a revolutionary process fighting to preserve continuity while governing with its constitutional president held captive in the belly of the empire. The task for us is to move from recognition to alignment by targeting the sanctions architecture, extractive restructuring, energy siege, and institutional machinery through which U.S. power seeks to turn coercion into permanent rule.

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