The incumbent U.S. president desperately needs a tangible success ahead of this November’s midterm elections.

That leaves only the invasion of a weak state

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Donald Trump got a bloody nose at the hands of the Iranians.

Even if the U.S. president escalates the situation once again and prepares to strike a major blow against the Persian Empire, he can no longer win.

The situation is simply too complicated.

And it mercilessly highlights what even astute thinkers within the inner circle of the U.S. elite have observed time and again: the U.S. may still be able to win wars.

But over the past four decades, they have repeatedly lost the peace.

The U.S. can now only destroy structures it dislikes. But unlike after World War II, they are no longer able to replace the old system with new structures.

They were able to overrun Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in a matter of days and bury Iraqi soldiers alive in the desert sand.

The postwar chaos, however, they never managed to bring under control. For they replaced the Sunni elites with Shiite elites whose compass was set on Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran. In Afghanistan, the Americans relied on the Stone Age Islamists of the Taliban. They then did as they saw fit and ultimately drove the GIs out in disgrace and shame.

Iran is likely to be even harder for the warmongers in Washington to rein in. And the situation is already so complicated that Trump won’t be able to use it to generate positive momentum for the midterm elections this November.

That’s when all members of the House of Representatives in the Washington Congress will have to face reelection, along with a number of senators in the Senate. And Trump has already cleared some of his opponents out of the way with the help of the political Epstein machine. Because anyone who wants to be re-elected by the public must first secure their party’s nomination.

And it just so happened to be Republican Thomas Massie, who stubbornly insisted on continuing to publicly investigate the embarrassing Epstein files despite the war with Iran. Trump’s friends at the pro-Israel lobby organization AIPAC used more or less gentle pressure to ensure that Republican delegates voted out the incorruptible Massie as a candidate for the House of Representatives in November. Then, “purely by chance“, it was Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana who had spoken out in favor of impeaching Donald Trump. The Epstein machine also politically hunted down Cassidy.

Now that Trump’s opponents within the Republican Party have been silenced and intimidated, it is still up to the ordinary American—the average man and woman on the street—to give Trump’s Epstein machine their approval at the ever-incorruptible voting machines. While past U.S. presidents were able to rally the electorate behind them with military raids on defenseless nations, this hasn’t worked for Trump so far. Americans have reacted with annoyance to Trump’s military escapades. Trump has lower approval ratings than any other U.S. president in history[1].

In any case, Trump can’t score points with domestic policy or finances. Forty trillion dollars in national debt. Growing tent cities for the homeless. Food stamps for needy families. Social unrest fomented by Trump’s paramilitary terror squads. Dirty insider trading by the Trump dynasty[2]. Enough is enough. Domestically, Trump can no longer make a difference. But there is one last trump card for Trump: how about invading a weak country again and then selling it as a great heroic deed?

So that leaves one last option:

The “Donroe Doctrine”!

Creative minds in Washington are already referring to the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” in this context. “Donroe” is a satirical portmanteau of Donald Trump and former U.S. President James Monroe. The latter, James Monroe, had proclaimed the “Monroe Doctrine”—named after him—in 1823. The fifth President of the United States sought to prevent the major European powers from reclaiming the colonies in Latin America they had just lost. The slogan “America for the Americans” was thus initially a liberal rallying cry against the reactionary monarchies of restored Europe. Later, however, the United States of America grew increasingly powerful, and as part of the so-called “gunboat diplomacy,” the Monroe Doctrine became an aggressive battle cry to annex the South American states as its own backyard.

And it is not so far-fetched to now accuse Donald Trump of a thirst for power directed against South America.

There are countless spider webs of U.S. power spreading across the South American subcontinent. We cannot lay out all of these webs here. But we would like to take a closer look at one of them in the following.

Take, for example, the Honduras Connection. Honduras is a small country in Central America. It has long been plagued by extreme poverty and a severe imbalance in the distribution of wealth. This is due to highly criminal syndicates that have always dictated the course of politics. The most powerful player in Honduras is undoubtedly the Hernandez clan. Juan Antonio Hernandez is a highly decorated drug lord. His admirers appreciate that between 2004 and 2018, he established a highly efficient “cocaine superhighway” from Honduras to the U.S. Thanks to “Tony’s” organizational skills, an estimated 185 tons of cocaine reached the noses of American end-users via this highway. When Tony Hernandez was finally apprehended by U.S. drug investigators in 2018, the investigators also immediately confiscated $138.5 million that Tony had earned. The prosecution charged Hernandez with ordering contract killings; with passing weapons and ammunition from the Honduran army to drug cartels; and with cooperating with the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico. Antonio Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison in the U.S. in 2021.

Among Antonio’s 15 honorable brothers is Juan Orlando Hernández. Orlando, too, was involved in large-scale drug trafficking. That did not prevent him from being elected president of Honduras in 2014. His style of governance is often described as “authoritarian.” By law, presidents in Honduras are actually only allowed to serve for four years. There is no provision for a second term. That did not stop Orlando Hernández from getting himself elected to a second term in 2017, despite vehement protests. When the vote count showed 43 percent for Orlando and 41.5 percent for his rival Salvador Nasralla, the rest of the election process was lost in a fog of irregularities. Move along! There’s nothing to see here! Twenty Hondurans died in the hail of police bullets during the protest demonstrations. When Orlando finally ceased to be president in 2022 and lost his immunity, he was arrested and extradited to the U.S. There, in 2024, Orlando was sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined eight million dollars. For Orlando had dealt drugs almost as much as his brother Tony Hernandez.

But Orlando didn’t have to serve much of his sentence. In November 2025, the new U.S. president, Donald Trump, pardoned him. Full of sympathy for his friend Orlando, Trump lamented that he had been “treated very harshly and unfairly.” And Trump continued on Truth Social:

“They [the judges] basically said he was a drug dealer because he was the president of the country”[3].

Given the suffering caused by the Hernandez brothers, that is quite disconcerting, to say the least.

Yet the Hernández dynasty was a key cornerstone of the new global architecture conceived by Donald Trump’s inner circle. Trump intends to dismantle states and their institutions dedicated to the public good and replace them with a fully privatized world order. And if public institutions cannot be abolished quickly enough, then the world must simply be covered from the bottom up with a network of private cities and special economic zones. In Honduras, the first private city, named Prospera, was created in this way under the protection of drug syndicates—on the dream island of Roatán[4].

The private city of Prospera is an enclave within the territory of Honduras. Not only were the rightful inhabitants of Roatán Island displaced, but within Prospera’s walls, its own laws apply. The cryptocurrency Bitcoin serves as the currency. Everything is organized as a private enterprise. Instead of a constitution, the terms and conditions of Prospera’s operating company apply here. There is no elected mayor, only a CEO, and instead of a city treasurer, there is only a managing director. Anyone who does not agree with Prospera’s terms and conditions cannot bring about democratic change, but can only sell their share and buy into another private city.

When these plans were approved by the Honduran Parliament in 2011, the country’s Supreme Court objected, ruling that the project was unconstitutional. The courageous Supreme Court Justice Rosalinda Cruz came under intense pressure from the then-president and the Speaker of Parliament, Orlando Hernández. When Ms. Cruz refused to back down, she was summarily removed from office[5]. Prospera, the gated community for the rich and famous, was built. Then, in 2022, Xiomara Castro succeeded Orlando Hernandez as the new president of Honduras, intent on enforcing the ban on gated communities. But after four years, Castro’s term came to an end. Under once again dubious circumstances, Nasry Asfura, a confidant of Trump and Hernandez, was elected the new president of Honduras. Asfura immediately sought and established close contact with Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This brings us back to the Epstein machine. The private city project is already being tested in twenty different locations around the world—in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. And Israel, the U.S., and the Arab sheikhdoms are planning to depopulate the Gaza Strip of Palestinians and establish a fully privatized special economic zone on Gaza’s territory. So, following the private cities, entire regions are now set to be operated entirely by private entities. I have already reported in detail on these scandalous machinations here[6].

Iran initially thwarted these plans through its clever strategic maneuvering in the Middle East. How the Iranians managed to do this is also explained in an earlier article of mine published here[7]. In Latin America, however, the prospects for the realization of a fully privatized and fascist world order are far more favorable.

“The Shield of the Americas“

I have no idea if Trump read too many chivalric novels in his wild youth. In any case, on March 7 of this year, Donald Trump founded an alliance of Trump-aligned Latin American nations in a small town in Florida. It bears the fairy-tale-like name “The Shield of the Americas” and features a knight’s shield as its logo. Ten Latin American states are united here, seeking to exchange information and combat the “cancer of socialism” through joint operations. Among the founders are Argentine President Javier Milei, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, and the trendy President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. Bukele claims to have reduced violent crime in his country to near zero. He achieved this by establishing a gigantic Gulag-like system of prisons. And although a significant portion of the Salvadoran population is incarcerated there, the facility also houses U.S. immigrants deported from the United States by Trump’s ICE militia.

In this context, it is interesting to note that the U.S. Special Envoy for the Americas is none other than Kristi Noem, who previously made a name for herself as Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security. As Secretary of Homeland Security, Noem posed in front of a mass detention center in El Salvador, where shaved, tattooed U.S. immigrants were crammed behind bars like wild animals. As Secretary of Homeland Security, who had her cosmetic dental surgery broadcast on television, Noem had gone way too far. As a governess for obedient South American despots, she will have a hard time continuing to attract unwanted attention with her eccentric behavior.

El Salvador’s President Bukele attempted to introduce the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Bukele used the COVID-19 campaign to quietly overhaul his country through privatization. He is being advised by a group of power brokers from Venezuela. These opponents of the Bolivarian Revolution attempted to exert influence on their home country from El Salvador. This Venezuelan shadow government stands above El Salvador’s legitimate ministers[8].

Also under the banner of the “Two Americas” is Chile’s new president, José Antonio Kast, who also came to power in Chile this year. Kast is the son of a German Wehrmacht officer who emigrated to Chile as a staunch Nazi. President José Antonio Kast openly supports the regime of former dictator Augusto Pinochet.

In this context, it would likely be a piece of cake for Trump to invade the socialist island of Cuba and incorporate it into his own sphere of influence. The U.S. press is already spinning tales about dangerous Cuban drones that could be used to attack the U.S.[9]. They also have no qualms about issuing a warrant for the arrest of Fidel Castro’s 94-year-old brother, Raúl Castro[10]. Now that Venezuela has fallen into the hands of the Trump clique, Cuba’s oil supply from Venezuela was immediately cut off and Cuban advisors were expelled from the country. Cuba is now suffering from power outages and plummeting into abject poverty at breakneck speed. Having been accustomed to sanctions-induced shortages for years, it is unimaginable how this island republic, which has managed to resist 60 years of hostile takeover attempts, is supposed to survive this encirclement by corrupt satellite states of the Trumpist U.S.

It is highly likely that Trump will now have to cling to this last straw—a cowardly ambush of a state that is already on its knees.

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Hermann Ploppa is a political scientist and journalist. Ploppa recently published the book “Der Neue Feudalismus – Privatisierung, Blackrock, Plattformkapitalismus” (The New Feudalism – Privatization, Blackrock, Platform Capitalism). As Amazon does not yet stock the book, it is best to order it from the author at: [email protected]. Visit the author’s blog here.

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Notes

[1] https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

[2] https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-shady-insider-trading/5924525

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvdr8k7xjro

[4] Hermann Ploppa: Der Neue Feudalismus – Privatisierung, Blackrock, Plattformkapitalismus. Marburg 2025.

[5] https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/sonderwirtschaftszonen-in-honduras-die-neuerfindung-der-100.html

[6] https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-dirty-work-blackrock/5901866

[7] https://www.globalresearch.ca/thank-you-iran/5920268

[8] https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-02-12/nayib-bukeles-hidden-cabinet.html

[9] https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/17/axios-cuba-has-acquired-over-300-russian-and-iranian-military-drones/

[10] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/czr24nr681gt?page=2

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