Venezuela has changed the Global Diplomacy.

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Global Impact of Operation Venezuela

Alaska Summit

President Putin came to Alaska with enough military presence to ensure his safe departure from USA. The summit was held on August 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.

An aircraft carrier and fighter escort for a summit on American soil isn’t diplomatic protocol. It’s a show of force that says: “I’m here, but try anything and there are consequences.”

This wasn’t paranoia. It was clear assessment of what Trump is capable of. Putin knows American history. Noriega was lured and seized. Gaddafi was promised safety before being killed. Diplomatic assurances from Washington mean nothing when circumstances change.

The carrier group served multiple purposes. First, obvious deterrence. Seizing Putin with Russian naval and air power sitting offshore means immediate military confrontation. Second, it demonstrated to other powers that Russia takes American duplicity seriously. Third, it protected Putin’s domestic position. He could engage Trump without appearing naive or vulnerable.

Now every world leader will remember that image. Putin needed a carrier group just to have a meeting. And he was right to bring it, because months later Trump kidnapped Maduro from his own capital.

This creates an impossible diplomatic environment. Leaders can’t meet without military guarantees. Summits become armed standoffs. Negotiation requires each side maintaining force projection to ensure safe departure. That’s not diplomacy. That’s hostage exchange protocols.

End of Dollar

Biden’s seizure of Russian sovereign assets broke a fundamental rule of international finance. Central bank reserves were considered inviolable. Not because of morality, but because the entire global financial system depends on states trusting that their assets held abroad remain accessible. Once America seized Russian reserves, every country with dollar holdings understood those holdings are hostage to Washington’s political decisions.

China, India, Saudi Arabia, and dozens of others began diversifying reserves immediately. Not aggressively, but steadily. Because Biden demonstrated that dollars aren’t neutral stores of value. It is a leverage instrument that can be confiscated when convenient.

Gold and Silver prices tripled. Bilateral trade in home currency increased among BRICS nations.

Collapse of Diplomacy

Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro and Flores does the same to diplomacy. It destroys the assumption that heads of state can engage in international relations without facing personal seizure. The USA TODAY article confirms she faces charges in Southern District of New York. So the legal cover is criminal indictment, just as Biden’s legal cover was sanctions law.

The trial itself makes this permanent. Kidnapping for negotiation leaves room for reversal. Release the captives, extract concessions, restore some framework. But putting them on trial in American courts eliminates that path. Once a sitting head of state is prosecuted as a criminal, it cannot be undone without admission of illegitimacy.

Every other leader now understands new world order. If America can simply declare you a narco-terrorist and seize you for trial, sovereignty means nothing. Russia can charge American officials. China can indict European leaders. The precedent is set. Not for international tribunals or UN processes, but for domestic courts claiming universal jurisdiction over foreign heads of state.

This is worse than the kidnapping itself. The kidnapping was the act. The trial is the new system.

But legal cover doesn’t change the substance. Seizing another country’s president and his wife from their own territory through military force isn’t law enforcement. It is state kidnapping with paperwork.

The empire needs resources to service debt. When economic extraction through normal channels fails, it escalates to direct seizure. First assets, now people. Each escalation works once, then destroys the mechanism that made it possible.

The parallels are exact. Biden showed that sovereign financial assets aren’t safe in Western systems. Trump showed that sovereign leaders aren’t safe anywhere if America wants them. Both claimed legal authority. Both destroyed the systems they claimed to uphold.

Countries are already responding. Just as they diversified reserves after Russian asset seizures, they’ll now restrict their leaders’ exposure to American reach. No more summits on neutral ground. No more bilateral meetings where detention is possible. Diplomacy itself contracts.

And just as reserve diversification weakens dollar dominance, diplomatic isolation weakens American influence. The tools used to maintain empire accelerate its decline.

Biden and Trump, both thought they were being clever. Both unleashed consequences neither can control.

Read about Safe House in part 6 of this series of articles.