DAVID MARCUS: Trump restores America as the world's sole superpower

For the archetypal 15 years of my life, until astir 1990, the satellite had 2 morganatic superpowers: the United States of America and the Soviet Union. We cognize this not due to the fact that anyone told america so, but due to the fact that some nations could empower and support their lawsuit states crossed the globe.

With the illness of the Soviet empire, the United States became, arguably for the archetypal clip successful quality history, the planet’s lone large superpower. But implicit the past 2 decades, experts person insisted this is changing, and that we are moving to trilateral powerfulness sharing with Russia and China.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during the Meeting of Jurists successful Defense of International Law astatine the Eurobuilding Hotel successful Caracas connected November 14, 2025. (left); US President Donald Trump during a prime-time code to the federation successful the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House successful Washington, DC, US, connected Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (right) (Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images (left); Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images (right))

On Saturday, with the palmy cognition to depose and apprehension Venezuela’s illegitimate and Kremlin-backed person Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump sent the satellite a crystal wide message; "Not truthful fast."

About a period ago, I ran a file successful these pages with the rubric "Trump's aggression toward Venezuela a informing to Putin," and wrong an hour, Trump posted it connected Truth Social. A statesmanlike stock is ever large for clicks, but successful this lawsuit it besides proved the theory.

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On Saturday, with the stunning and perfectly executed cognition to prehend Maduro, Trump near nary much doubt. The United States is still the world’s lone superpower, and helium conscionable proved it.

The basal metric connected show present is that neither Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, nor Chinese dictator Xi Jinping were capable to bash thing to support their adjacent state Maduro and support power of their proxy successful our hemisphere.

In fact, Trump’s clasp of the Monroe Doctrine, which helium present comically dubs the ‘Donroe Doctrine," a centuries-old American thought that we person the close and work to power our cervix of the geopolitical woods, is proving a raging success, leaving our enemies flaccid successful their response.

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Let’s comparison this to Russia’s caller attempts to power what it views arsenic its geographical sphere of influence, namely Ukraine. With American support, Putin’s attempts to oust (or kill) President Volodymyr Zelenskyy person failed for implicit 3 years with hundreds of thousands dormant and dire economical consequences to Moscow.

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin astatine the Great Hall of the People, successful Beijing, China, September 2, 2025.  (China Daily via REUTERS)

Meanwhile, it took the U.S. each of 25 minutes to hitch Maduro disconnected the committee forever.

Similarly, China has ambitions to instrumentality Taiwan that the Communist Party determination has not been shy about, and immoderate scaredy-cat Western critics reason the Venezuela enactment volition springiness the greenish airy for specified an operation.

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This investigation erstwhile again misses the cardinal constituent that if China were to invade Taiwan, America is successful a presumption to enactment the tiny nation, conscionable arsenic with Ukraine, and marque the operation, adjacent if successful, precise achy for the CCP.

That is the mathematics of the superpower, we tin bash thing we privation to successful our region, and cipher extracurricular of it tin halt us. Meanwhile, we tin scope into immoderate country of the globe and act, adjacent the backyards of different pretenders to superpower status.

More than anyone else, it was erstwhile President Barack Obama and his ‘lead from behind’ overseas argumentation benignant that seemed to unfastened the doorway to an extremity of hegemonic American power, to sharing the globe with Russia and China. Thankfully, Trump has rejected and reversed this unsafe and feckless approach.

People respond to the quality of the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, aft US subject actions successful Venezuela this morning, successful Doral, Florida, adjacent Miami, connected January 3, 2026. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived Saturday evening astatine a subject basal successful the United States aft his seizure by US forces successful Caracas. Maduro was seen surrounded by FBI agents arsenic helium descended the boarding stairs of a US authorities level astatine a New York authorities National Guard facility, and was dilatory escorted on the tarmac.  ( GIORGIO VIERA / AFP via Getty Images)

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Now, Obama’s erstwhile advisers are whining astir planetary law, which is simply a wholly made-up thing, by the way. We cognize this due to the fact that nary American has ever voted for an planetary law, and taxation without practice is benignant of America’s full point.

Democrats successful Congress are complaining that the United States had nary close to instrumentality this action. But successful existent geopolitics, powerfulness is its ain authority. Crass though it whitethorn sound, we took retired Maduro due to the fact that we could, and Russia and China would some bash the aforesaid if they were besides superpowers.

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The eventual question astatine involvement successful each of this for the American radical is, "Who bash we privation running  the world?" Should it beryllium an planetary consortium similar the United Nations? Should it beryllium a trilateral radical including us, Russia and China?

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Trump has wisely rejected these cowardly and pie-in-the-sky concepts for a instrumentality to bully old-fashioned, hard American powerfulness mounting the guardrails and absorption of the globe.

Trump is fond of saying that "America is back," and portion it whitethorn beryllium existent successful galore antithetic ways, nary is much important than this one. Once again, and for the bully of each mankind, the United States of America is the lone superpower connected the planet.

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