03/01/2026
Trump: A Patriotic Hero or A Global Bully ? - In the matter of Venezuela.
Controversially, an objective realist analysis of the happenings in Venzuela may not necessarily put Trump in bad light. Instead, Trump appears that Hero who must act decisively in securing the survival of his State and the protection of its National Interest by all means and at all cost. Nicole Machiavelli’s philosophical position, a core pillar upon which realism rest, offers a uniqu perspective, and postulates that;
“A Prince cannot observe all those things for which men are considered good. For in order to maintain the state, he is often obliged to act against his promise, against charity, against humanity, and against religion. And therefore, it is necessary that he has a mind ready to turn himself according to the way the winds of fortune and the changeability of [political] affairs require. As long as it is possible, he should not stray from the good, but he should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands".
Let every state be ware of the limitations of international law in the face of asymmetrical global power dynamics. The IR principle of Equal Sovereignty is but a wishful concept.
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