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​Dangerous paradigm: On Trump, Venezuela and unhinged depredation

Trump has lowered the threshold of norms for conduct on global stage

Following the kidnapping and removal to U.S. soil of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, on the back of military action not authorised by Congress or supported by the UN, U.S. President Donald Trump has now made clear his intent to set the crosshairs of American neo-imperialist expansionism on other nations and territories including Colombia, Greenland, Mexico, Cuba, and Iran. The Trump administration surprised the world, and apparently Venezuelan military forces, when it launched an overnight strike on Caracas over the weekend, including likely use of artillery (तोपखाना) and special forces, to extract the Maduros to face federal drug trafficking and weapons charges – charges that Mr. Maduro pleaded (विनती करना) not guilty to. Responding to media after the event, Mr. Trump appeared to be setting his sights on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, when he said that that country was being “run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the U.S.,” and “He’s not going to be doing it for very long.” Similarly, Mr. Trump has remarked that the U.S. has a “need” for Greenland from the perspective of its “national security”, that “something will have to be done about Mexico” to rid the nation of the scourge (अभिशाप, महामारी, विनाशकारी संकट) of drug cartels, that Cuba is “ready to fall” in the absence of revenue linked to Venezuelan oil, and that Iran would be “hit very hard by the U.S.” if it cracked down on protesters on its soil.

While the Trump administration has consistently lowered the threshold (दहलीज) of norms and acceptable standards for the conduct of nations on the global stage and diverged from the positions of previous Democrat- and Republican-led governments on the threat posed, for example by Russia to Europe, to directly engage in unauthorised and illegal interference of a brazen kind and seek regime (शासन) change through the use of force in an established hemispheric power is a new low. The deeper danger of this so called “Donroe Doctrine” — ultimately premised on seizing Venezuela’s cherished oil resources rather than any pretext of “restoring democracy” — is that it may embolden (प्रोत्साहित करना) autocrats (तानाशाह) and nations with an appetite for fomenting (भड़काना) conflict to engage in similar destabilising unilateral military action against perceived enemies, potentially resulting in full-fledged cross-border confrontations (आमना-सामना). Today’s Venezuela was yesterday’s Ukraine and might be tomorrow’s Taiwan, if Mr. Trump’s paradigm (प्रतिमान) for settling scores propagates further. While the leaders of each potential future target of U.S. aggression and the UN leadership have protested such action by Washington, it might take nothing less than the major powers of today, including India, Europe, Australia, Africa and Latin America, speaking in one voice against this unhinged (To make someone mentally unbalanced; to disrupt or throw into disorder) depredation (An act of attacking or plundering; damage or destruction) by the Trump administration to halt this dangerous new paradigm in its tracks.

Courtesy: The Hindu

Important Word List With Meaning

1.Paradigm (Noun)

Hindi Meaning – प्रतिमान
English Meaning – A typical example or pattern of something; a model or a standard.

2.Artillery (Noun)

Hindi Meaning – तोपखाना
English Meaning – Large-caliber guns used in warfare on land; a military unit that uses such weapons.

3.Plead (Verb)

Hindi Meaning – विनती करना
English Meaning – To make an emotional appeal; to present an argument in a court of law.

4.Scourge (Noun)

Hindi Meaning – अभिशाप, महामारी, विनाशकारी संकट
English Meaning – A person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering.

5.Threshold (Noun)

Hindi Meaning – दहलीज
English Meaning – The level or point at which a starting point or a new state begins.

6.Embolden (Verb)

Hindi Meaning – प्रोत्साहित करना
English Meaning – To give someone the courage or confidence to do something.

7.Foment (Verb)

Hindi Meaning – भड़काना
English Meaning – To instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action).

8.Confrontation (Noun)

Hindi Meaning – आमना-सामना
English Meaning – A hostile or argumentative situation or meeting between opposing parties.

9.Autocrat (Noun)

Hindi Meaning – तानाशाह
English Meaning – A ruler who has absolute power.

10.Regime (Noun)

Hindi Meaning – शासन
English Meaning – A government, especially an authoritarian one; a system or planned way of doing things.

11.Unhinge (Verb)

English Meaning – To make someone mentally unbalanced; to disrupt or throw into disorder.

12.Depredation (Noun)

English Meaning – An act of attacking or plundering; damage or destruction.