The Venezuela Adventure

America is a dying nation, with dim prospects for survival and an ever-narrowing window of opportunity to turn things around. Our problems, moreover, are overwhelmingly domestic. Short of nuclear war, our survival is not threatened by any foreign power. The rest of the world is hardly a threat and barely an inconvenience.

The most powerful enemies of America are within our own borders, most of them well-ensconced in the leading institutions of our society. The lumpen terrorist elements like antifa and BLM only exist due to the patronage and tolerance of the establishment.

The Trump administration is basically the last chance for white Americans to salvage something resembling our birthright: America as a white nation, from sea to shining sea. What we need is closed borders and mass remigration. Getting that will be a miracle. Anything more is just sprinkles on top. Thus grasping for more is insanity.

Trump, however, has limited time, limited political capital, and only the dimmest sense of what is at stake. Moreover, he has chosen to squander much of his time and capital on foreign policy adventures serving foreign (primarily Jewish) interests and pursuing merely personal accolades, such as the Nobel Peace Prize and, most recently, the ridiculous “Israel Prize.” (Netanyahu really knows how to push Trump’s buttons.)

So forgive me for not being jubilant about Trump’s Venezuela adventure. Yes, I was relieved that the initial phase went quickly. But what are the chances this is really over? Yes, the memes and seething have been hilarious. Yes, I’ve heard a long list of good things that might come from this. But they give me no joy, given that America is actually dying at the hands of enemies within. Thus listening to Trump touting the potential upsides of the Venezuela adventure is like hearing that he traded America’s last cow for a handful of magic beans.

I didn’t vote for this adventure. I don’t believe any of the rationales being offered for it. I don’t trust people like Pete Hegseth not to screw it up. But most of all, we just don’t have time for this foolishness.

Is there a world in which I would celebrate this operation? Yes. But we don’t live in that world.

I’m all for knocking off commies on principle. Venezuela is a shithole run by the South American equivalent of Gavin Newsom or Alexandra Ocasio Cortez. I wouldn’t want to live there, and frankly I’d pray for outside help. (I find it odd that there are people in our camp who fight people like that in America then imagine that they are allied with them in the Third World.) So I’m all for black-bagging Leftist politicians. But let’s begin with Gavin Newsom, Tim Walz, Zohran Mamdani, and Ilhan Omar, shall we?

In his first term, Trump did not win the hard battles necessary to save America. Eventually, he took the easy route of pandering to blacks and Jews. Trump’s new term is much better, but again he is going for easy victories to brag about rather than focusing on the hard battles. This can only lead to a downward spiral, for postponing hard battles only makes them harder. Again, we don’t have time for this foolishness.

Yes, I would be happy to overthrow any regime that sends out waves of migrants or refuses to take them back. But the Trump administration isn’t using this as an excuse to remigrate half a million Venezuelans. Indeed, the airhead Pam Bondi is now talking about allowing them to claim refugee status.

Moreover, the buffoonery is not confined to the Trump administration. A lot of people on or adjacent to the identitarian Right are giddy as well.

For some of them, it boils down to the psychology of spectator sports. People feel good cheering for the winning team. They imagine that they, too, are winning. No, actually, you aren’t winning. Moreover, our chance of winning the most important battle—namely to restore America as a white homeland—just decreased.

Others think that imperialist ventures are signs of “health,” ignoring the fact that many wars are launched by declining powers who feel that it is “now or never.”

America is not, however, a healthy society. It is a dying one. Thus Emperor Trump’s talk of annexing Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal—and now of “running” Venezuela—comes off as play acting: a bankrupt splurging on credit to feel rich, a sick man buying a fancy meal to feel healthy. America, however, will not return to health by pretending to be healthy. Our only hope is to face reality and accept that we have a long, painful course of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy ahead of us before we might get well.

Frankly, only stupidity can explain American nationalists demanding the annexation of Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, and even the entire Western Hemisphere. No, actually, white Americans want to deport Latin Americans, not annex them. We want to be the majority in a white nation, not a minority in a brown empire.

A lot of nationalists have also offered “might makes right” defenses of the Venezuela adventure. This too has an element of play acting. Clearly, they are imaginatively identifying with America or earlier, mightier forms of their own nations. In reality, however, these are people who have been stalked, harassed, assaulted, doxed, deplatformed, and systematically marginalized in their own homelands. We are not the strong. We are the weak. Our enemies have all the might.

Yet, presumably, we think that this is wrong. We also think it is wrong when white girls are raped by non-white migrants. But if you believe that might makes right, then what grounds do you have to complain about your subjugation? Since we can’t fight our way out of this situation, our only option is to talk our way out of it. But how are we going to do that if we discard moral arguments?

The Venezuela adventure has also elicited a great deal of confusion about international law. Yes, we all had a good laugh when Russia protested against the American raid on grounds of “international law.” What about Ukraine? Wasn’t this raid justified by BRICS encroachment on America? Isn’t the “realist” thing to do to give in to the nuclear superpower? Isn’t the smart move for Venezuela to elect a president more to Trump’s liking? Etc.

But hypocrisy does not delegitimize international law any more than it does any other norm. Norms identify what ought to be done. They don’t force you to do the right thing. Nor do they prevent you from doing the wrong thing. Instead, they allow us to discern which of your actions are right and which are wrong.

The fact that countries make war does not make war okay, just as the fact that some men rape does not make rape okay. Nor does getting away with war make war okay, just as getting away with rape does not make rape okay either. In fact, getting away with a crime only makes it worse, morally speaking.

I hope that when the fist-pumping, chest-thumping jingoism dies down a bit, at least some Americans will realize that America is actually stronger with friends and allies. Maybe then they will stop treating the rest of the world like waiters, and maybe the rest of the world will stop spitting in our food.

https://counter-currents.com/2026/01/the-venezuela-adventure