The U.S. naval strike on Venezuela reveals the return of unilateral military coercion, exposing the decline of the liberal international order.

Trump is steadily moving toward an authoritarian drift that threatens the fundamental pillars of American democracy.

Trump is not the cause of global disorder, but rather the most vocal symptom of a system that was already crumbling.

July 4, 2025, marks not only a national holiday, but also an uncomfortable portrait of the political, scientific, and diplomatic present of the United States under Trump's second term.

The success of powers such as China and the United States, driven by state intervention, highlights the fallacy of neoliberal free market dogma and underscores the need to adopt pragmatic policies free from rigid ideologies.

More than redefining its negotiating strategy, the region needs to balance relative power and raise the cost of non-compliance for the United States. It is therefore essential that the FTA countries — and ideally all of them — coordinate their response.