As if right out of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, the capture of Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro by the United States of America in Operation Absolute Resolve is one of the best demonstrations in modern history of a great power’s use of unconventional warfare to protect its national interests. This was not about regime change. It is the re-emergence of the nation-state as the most important sovereign entity in the global system. Yet, as one of the US’s most important strategic allies, we remain unsure where Australia stands.

This indirect action by the US must be sending chills down the spines of globalists and Western oligarchs whose rule-based system has been suffocating the nation-state in favour of non-state actors ever since the end of the first Cold War. Multinational institutions such as the United Nations, the European Union, the World Health Organisation and an array of non-government organisations are now predominantly run by anti-Western Marxists.  Right now, Somalia, a failed state, holds the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council , while in 2025 Iran was elected chair of the Asia-Pacific Group within the United Nations Human Rights Council.

As Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared, it is ‘the new era of the nation’. Unfortunately, fewer Western nations are standing up to this network of globalist entities imposing digital IDs, and climate communism, and, increasingly, restricting freedom of speech and favouring mass migration and open borders. Alexandra Marshall, of The Spectator Australia, put it best on X when she posted ‘it’s a world run by Islamism, communism or America’.

This action by US President Donald Trump is also an attack on the international offshore banking system operating adjacent to Venezuela and facilitating the global narco-financing network. This is outlined by Susan Kokinda, one of the most insightful observers of geo-politics from US-based Promethean Action. Former head of Russia’s Federal Narcotics Service (2008-2016) Viktor Ivanov explained the significance of narco-financing in 2014 as ‘the garbage that fertilises the economic system’.  The estimated annual value of money from narco-drug traffickers laundered through the international banking system is approximately $783 billion, based on 2023 data,  out of $3.1 trillion in illicit funds flowing through the global financial system. No wonder British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer looks stunned.

Operation Absolute Resolve penetrates the spider’s nest of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and China’s attempt to establish a tunnel to infiltrate the United States and erode it from within. This is the ultimate act in the United States’ interests within its hemisphere. If Papua New Guinea were to become like Venezuela and Australia did nothing about it, it would be a dereliction of duty and seriously undermine our national security.

The 2025 US National Security Strategy (that has the oligarchs in the United Kingdom’s House of Lords freaking out), and was treated with contempt by many mainstream security and international relations commentators, explains how following the end of the first Cold War, the foreign policy elites ‘lashed American policy to a network of international institutions, some of which are driven by outright anti-Americanism and many by a transnationalism that explicitly seeks to dissolve individual sovereignty’. There it is, right there. Imagine having a government with the courage to state this during the current globalist meltdown. No wonder Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is reluctant to hold a royal commission into the Bondi terrorist attack. It risks exposing strategic failures in this anti-state phenomenon, such as how Australia has become a sanctuary for the Islamist global insurgency.

Recall late last year, the double-tap strikes against international narco-traffickers in Operation Southern Spear in the Caribbean. This is exactly the unequivocal action enemies need to experience in a new era of unconventional war against the West. The US, with new Pentagon leadership under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, is the only Australian ally to recognise that what is required are proactive measures with extreme prejudice. Powerful geopolitical forces are combining against the West through networks of state and non-state actors – criminals, terrorists, and drug cartels – while inspiring sympathisers to instigate a perpetual multipolar conflict to which Australia is not immune.

Throughout history, great powers have always acted when their interests are threatened. That is, except for every UK government since the late Margaret Thatcher (1923-2013). Under former prime ministers David Cameron and Rishi Sunak, and now under Sir Keir Starmer, Britain is more Islamised, arresting and imprisoning people for online commentary challenging the government narrative, while it is flooded by uncontrolled migration of people who despise Western Judeo-Christian values.  If this continues, the UK could be a threat to traditional Western interests. Perhaps the most pathetic expression of any Western leader in response to Operation Absolute Resolve came from Starmer, who exclaimed, ‘I stand with Denmark,’ as mainstream commentators claim Greenland is next. Instead of standing like the lion of our forefathers in the first and second world wars, these globalist leaders squeak like mice. Under the Queen of globalism and censorship, Ursula von der Leyen, the European Union is no better. In fact, it leads this anti-sovereign movement.

Under US President Joe Biden, the open southern border became the biggest national security blunder since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The invasion of the US southern border by people, drugs and weapons was an example of the collaboration between states and non-state actors in what US author and former soldier Sean McFate calls ‘The New Rules of War’. Many will reject this as crazy talk, a far-right conspiracy, or xenophobic. Or as with NATO, remain fixated on big pieces of military hardware and battlefield manoeuvres.  If this is the West’s view of war, we will lose, even if it takes time. Our first world will become the third world.

When it comes to Australia’s place in the anti-state world order, given the growth in and influence of anti-Western migrants and citizens within our population, by the time the first Aukus submarine is operational in 2040, it may never be deployed to defend Western democratic interests. Already, our changing demographics have imposed their will on a compliant globalist government in relation to Australia’s foreign policy on Israel.

Since the History of the Peloponnesian War, in the context of international relations, realism holds that states act in their explicit interests to secure power and security. For over a generation, this was circumvented by multilateral institutions that sought to undermine national sovereignty. Operation Absolute Resolve is a wake-up call not only to  globalists’ dreams but how Australia should position itself in a new era of great-power politics.