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For the first 15 years of my life, until around 1990, the world had two legitimate superpowers: the United States of America and the Soviet Union. We know this not because anyone told us, but because both countries could empower and protect their client states around the world.
With the collapse of the Soviet empire, the United States became, arguably for the first time in human history, the sole great superpower on the planet. But over the past two decades, experts have insisted that the situation is changing and that we are moving toward trilateral power sharing. with Russia and China.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during the meeting of jurists for the defense of international law at the Eurobuilding hotel in Caracas on November 14, 2025. (left); U.S. President Donald Trump during a prime-time address to the nation in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., Wednesday, December 17, 2025. (Right) (Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images (left); Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images (right))
On Saturday, following the successful operation to remove and arrest Venezuela’s illegitimate, Kremlin-backed leader Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump sent a crystal clear message to the world; “Not so fast.”
About a month ago I ran a column in these pages with the title “Trump’s aggression against Venezuela a warning to Putin,” and in less than an hour, Trump posted it on Truth Social. A presidential action is always great for clicks, but in this case it also proved the theory.
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On Saturday, with the stunning and perfectly executed operation to capture Maduro, Trump left no doubt. The United States is always the world’s only superpower, and he just proved it.
The basic measurement presented here is that neither the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin nor the Chinese dictator Xi Jinping were able to do everything to protect their close ally Maduro and maintain control of their proxy in our hemisphere.
In fact, Trump’s embrace of Monroe Doctrinewhich he now comically dubs the “Donroe Doctrine,” a centuries-old American idea that we have the right and responsibility to control our geopolitical corner, is proving a resounding success, leaving our enemies limp in their response.
Compare this to Russia’s recent attempts to control what it considers its geographical sphere of influence, namely Ukraine. With American support, Putin’s attempts to overthrow (or kill) President Volodymyr Zelensky failed for more than three years, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and disastrous economic consequences for Moscow.
Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, September 2, 2025. (Chinese daily via REUTERS)
Meanwhile, it took the United States 25 minutes to remove Maduro from the picture forever.
China similarly has ambitions to seize Taiwan, something the Communist Party has not hesitated to achieve, and some frightened Western critics say Venezuela’s action will green light such an operation.
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This analysis once again misses the key point that if China were to invade Taiwan, America would be able to support that small nation, just like Ukraine, and make the operation, even if successful, very painful for the United States. the CCP.
This is the calculation of the superpower: we can do whatever we want in our region and no one outside of it can stop us. Meanwhile, we can reach any part of the globe and take action, even in the backyards of other contenders for superpower status.
More than anyone else, he was the former president Barack Obama and his “lead from behind” style of foreign policy that seemed to open the door to the end of American hegemonic power and the sharing of the world with Russia and China. Fortunately, Trump has rejected and reversed this dangerous and ill-considered approach.
People react to the news of the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, after U.S. military actions in Venezuela this morning, in Doral, Florida, near Miami, January 3, 2026. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived at a military base in the United States on Saturday evening following his capture by U.S. forces in Caracas. Maduro was seen surrounded by FBI agents as he walked down the boarding stairs of a US government plane at a New York State National Guard facility, and was slowly escorted along the tarmac. (GIORGIO VIERA / AFP via Getty Images)
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Today, Obama’s former advisers are complaining about international law, which is, moreover, a completely invented thing. We know this because no American has ever voted for international law, and taxation without representation is somehow America’s main goal.
Congressional Democrats complain that the United States had no right to take such measures. But in real geopolitics, power is its own authority. As crude as it may sound, we took out Maduro because we could, and Russia and China would do the same if they were also superpowers.
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The ultimate question at stake in all of this for the American people is: “Who do we want to rule the world?” » Should it be a international consortium like the United Nations? Should it be a trilateral group including us, Russia and China?
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Trump wisely rejected these loose and far-fetched concepts back to the good old game, the harsh American power define the guardrails and direction of the globe.
Trump likes to say that “America is back,” and while that may be true in many different ways, none is more important than this. Once again, and for the good of all humanity, the United States of America is the only superpower on the planet.
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