Post Venezuela Global World Order: Oil, Regime Change, and international Silence

The United States has historically treated strategic resources in the Western Hemisphere as an extension of its own economic Sphere-Monroe Doctrine 1823- Countries possessing such reserves are viewed less as sovereign states and more as custodians—protected by the U.S. from rival powers in exchange for compliance.

Venezuela fits squarely into this framework. Since 2017, Donald Trump openly pursued an aggressive stance toward Caracas. Claims linking Venezuela to drug trafficking have largely functioned as political justification rather than credible evidence- by ignoring the real culprit Mexico-Multiple regime-change efforts—through sanctions, diplomatic isolation, and covert pressure—failed, despite strategies closely associated with Senator Marco Rubio.

At the center of the conflict lies a simple reality: Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves. For nearly twenty years, it denied access to major U.S. energy corporations such as ExxonMobil and Chevron, transforming an economic dispute into a geopolitical confrontation.

Real Dimensions

• Access to Oil

• Forced Regime Change

• Geopolitical Power Projection

Military intervention would effectively open Venezuela’s oil sector to U.S. interests, particularly under a U.S.-backed opposition leadership. Although President Nicolás Maduro has repeatedly offered negotiations, Washington has shown little interest in conditional engagement, indicating that compromise is not the objective.

A large-scale military operation—reportedly involving elite forces—would also serve as a strategic signal. It would warn Russia and China to stay out of what the U.S. continues to regard as its exclusive sphere of influence, with parallel implications for states such as Cuba and Iran.

What is most alarming is not hypocrisy, but silence. The United Nations and much of the international community have remained largely passive. This quiet acceptance normalizes a dangerous precedent: a world where power overrides law, where interests are openly declared, and where military dominance—not international norms—defines the global order.

In the new normal it will be easier for the state with military might to invade or to influence the meagre states to get the results of their interest. Russia can implicate the same in their sphere and possibly stage a maneuver against Ukraine. The New global order is to demonstrate power with no rules to compete with Economic turbulence by capturing the natural resources and to control the supply chain.