This US attack, which began as an energy blockade of Venezuela, constitutes yet another provocation by the Trump presidency, following a series of military and economic attacks on countries with fascist or authoritarian leaderships that maintain close ties with Russia but possess nationalistic resistance to total submission. Such was the provocative nature of the bombing of the Mullahs' Iran and the economic war via tariffs unleashed against the India of Modi, a Hindu ethno-racist. Of a similar nature, but with an even broader goal, was Trump’s encouragement of expansionists in Israel to turn a just defensive war against the Islamo-nazi Hamas into an unjust offensive war against the Palestinian nation-state. This has resulted in genocidal antisemitism—the international unifying banner of cannibalistic violence promoted by the Russian-Chinese war Axis—reaching historic heights globally.
We believe that among all of Trump’s provocations, the abduction of Maduro is the most politically useful for the Russian-Chinese Axis. We are already witnessing its first direct consequence: the rise to power of the former Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez. She is the head of the secret services and thus the regime’s chief torturer; she brokered the transfer of the country’s oil capital from Europe to Russia and, according to four sources cited by Reuters, was in Russia shortly before Maduro’s abduction. It should be noted here that, unlike countries like Nicaragua, Eritrea, or North Korea, Maduro’s Venezuela abstained in UN votes regarding Ukraine and did not vote in favor of Russia.
But the worst is not what follows for Venezuela. The worst lies in the immense political gift Trump offered with this provocation to the neo-Hitlerites and their international allies, as:
1. He gave immense weight to their core position that every superpower has the right to humiliate countries on its own continent, just as Russia did to Ukraine and as China prepares to do to Taiwan.
2. He exposed Europe, which is under immediate Hitlerite threat, as an ally of this aggressive America.
This second point was expressed by the inability of European diplomacy (statements by Kallas, Costa, and even worse, Macron) to—if not vehemently denounce—at least distance itself from this blunt act of violating a country's sovereignty. This distinction was politically necessary since a European country, Ukraine, has suffered the most extreme manifestation of international law violation and state sovereignty in our century: a military invasion, occupation, and Nazi-style annexation. While European democracies vigorously denounce this in practice, they now appear inconsistent and weak before the Third World, which is already wavering under the influence of the Axis. In this atmosphere, the covertly pro-Russian Mitsotakis found the opportunity to defend his friend Trump regarding the abduction, a move that gave wings to the Russian-servile social-fascists (pseudo-CPG, SYRIZA, New Left) and dragged PASOK even further behind them.
The question is why Europe reacts this way. It reacts out of fear of an open conflict with Trump, who constantly threatens to cut off US military support. And it does not fear Trump himself as much as it fears losing its last support within his presidency: the anti-Russian/anti-Chinese (and thus somewhat pro-Ukrainian) faction of the Republican party, which, in alliance with the Democrats, controls the majority of Congress. It is this faction that imposed Rubio as Secretary of State. The greatest problem for Europe now is that this faction—being classically imperialist, interventionist, and old-school anti-communist—is leading the external overthrow of the Maduro regime, similar to what was done under George H.W. Bush in Panama in 1989 with the arrest of dictator Noriega.
However, the difference between that blunt intervention and the current one is that today the American superpower is in such decline that its president directly serves a hostile imperialism. Back then, American interventionists installed a pro-American president who had just been elected by the Panamanian people. In contrast, today Trump does not even install the elected, pro-Western bourgeois-democrat Edmundo González Urrutia, and denounces Machado, the true leader of the democratic opposition, as unsuitable. Thus, for now, Trump has simply performed a "delicate surgery" within the power bloc, making it even more terroristic and pro-Russian. We do not know if the new leaders of Venezuela will eventually reach a deal with their abductor, Trump, to share the country’s oil (as he promised Republicans and Russia), but certainly, the USA has already become the most hated entity in the Americas, and its Russian-Chinese "friends" more popular than ever.
This is how Europe is doubly exposed today, especially in Latin America where it desperately needs political and economic cooperation—particularly as France's "brown-reds" have essentially sabotaged the EU-Mercosur agreement. At first glance, the EU leadership pays with political humiliation for its failure to arm itself militarily, having ignored the aggressive nature of Russia and China for decades. But deeper down, it wasn't a lack of insight, but the class nature of the monopoly bourgeoisie they represent; they remained indifferent while for decades Russia and its allies were engaged in mass slaughter, rape, and the leveling of Bosnia, Chechnya, and Syria; or while they were de facto dismembering Georgia and Moldova, annexing North Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria; or while in China they have been relentlessly torturing the Uyghurs to this very day.
For this reason, we emphasize: unlike the Hitlerites of WWII who began by crushing proletarian revolutions from the outside (like the German revolution of 1919), the new Hitlerite imperialists of the third world war began by defeating the great proletarian and anti-imperialist revolutions of Russia and China from within. For this reason, the neo-Hitlerite imperialisms are dressed in the sheep’s clothing of revolutionary Marxism and anti-imperialist patriotism; they are, in other words, dressed up as 'insurgent peoples.' Thus, today they conduct all their dictatorships and wars through a global reactionary front consisting of misled workers and ruined petty-bourgeoisie, led by the most greedy and brutal billionaires in history. These individuals pose as patriots who are supposedly fighting against 'liberal globalists.'
It is impossible to defeat this front without the emergence of a truly global anti-fascist army of oppressed peoples, nations, and states that will stand against it, fight it uncompromisingly, and expose its true class nature. Such an army must inevitably be led by the Marxist revolutionary proletariat—defeated in the previous phase and, for that very reason, more experienced than ever. This proletariat holds a supreme, infallible principle: The oppressed can be saved only through their own struggle, and not by any savior from the outside. In other words, the people of Venezuela will be saved by the people of Venezuela, and not by any Trump, any Putin, or any Xi. In fact, they must crush these 'saviors' in a united front with the anti-fascist peoples, nations, and states of the entire world. This is impossible to achieve without denouncing, alongside the dictator Maduro, even more vehemently his imperialist 'pseudo-savior' and provocateur abductor."
(The statement of OAKKE - Organisation for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece has been published on its webpage in the Greek language, here https://oakke.gr/global/2013-02-16-19-26-19/item/1795- )
Athens, January 4, 2026