The recent kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by US special forces in Caracas perfectly symbolizes the resurgence of offensive realism in geopolitics. In this American continental theater, where regional ambitions and external interference clash, we witness the mechanisms described by realist theorists in action: the maximization of power, security paranoia, and the exploitation of threats to justify the expansion of control.

Never forget that the Federal Reserve is a tool of central planning, in a style similar to any socialist state. 

America has declared Latin America to be in the USA’s sphere of influence. Yet American “elites” also pretend that the idea doesn’t exist if any other country invokes it. 

Contrary to what most Americans seem to think. the essence of the Monroe Doctrine was a firm declaration to oppose European colonization of the Americas.

Trump has declared elections to be out of the question, and instead says he expects to send troops to occupy Venezuela. 

Aristotelian-Thomistic realist philosophy may be the strongest foundation for disciplines such as praxeology. As David Gordon notes in his book The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics, the Austrian School and realist philosophy seem made for each other. The Austrian School defends methodological individualism, a view of individual human action that Aristotle had already articulated in the Nicomachean Ethics.

In emerging democracies, infrastructure is rarely treated as a means. It becomes a promise, a symbol, sometimes a substitute for progress itself. Metro systems, highways, ports, and monumental public works are announced as proof that the state is moving history forward. Yet years pass, costs multiply, and delivery remains modest. What is lost in the process is not only money, but time, the most irreplaceable of all resources.