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What’s Going On in the Middle East and Venezuela? Peter Koenig

By Peter Koenig

Global Research, October 24, 2025

Region: Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa

Theme: Oil and Energy

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What we observe today in the Middle East is Israel attempting to expand to the “Greater-Greater Israel”, including Iran and possibly Iraq.

It is the Oded Yinon Plan of the early 1980s, not known to most people even Israelis. The plan goes way beyond the Greater Israel plan. Pursing this plan means endless war and bloodshed. Neither Israelis nor anybody else in the world wants this. So, its existence – let alone talking openly about – is immediately and politically silenced.

On the other side of the Atlantic, President Trump is attempting to revive and impose the 1823 Monroe Doctrine 2.0, beginning with Venezuela and now also Colombia. All under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking.

He recently insulted Colombia’s President Petro, calling him a chief drug trafficker and stopped all financial transactions with Colombia, including what he calls “aid” to Colombia.

The world, however, knows or should know that the US is by far the globe’s biggest drug (and human) trafficker. Even Trump, during his election campaign often referred to the US’ involvement in drug and human trafficking. That is one of the reasons why he was – and still is – so adamant in stopping immigration.

So, what you see in the Middle East and in the Caribbean is not what meets the eye.

The plan for “Greater-Greater Israel”, destruction of Iran (which in the original Greater Israel was not included), which will also attempt to block the Strait of Hormuz, to cut off the rest of the western world from hydrocarbon energy, especially China (Israel does the dirty job for the US, supported with US weaponry and money).

Close to 35% of oil and gas – the main source of worldwide energy – is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.

China is clearly targeted, number ONE for Trump and his handlers.

On the other hand, Trump is trying to take over Venezuela, with the world’s largest hydrocarbon resources, replacing those from the Gulf States, first for MAGA, of course, second for all those puppets who remain obedient to King Donald. A perfect scenario.

To disguise his intentions, in his Trump Social platform, he is ramping against two oil-rich countries, US neighbors. He is now also accusing Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia, as being a drug trafficker. As long as much of Latin America still largely depends on the US dollar, the notorious dollar sanction is still a major issue for many, if not most, Latin American countries (LAC).

Mr. Trump and his economic advisors believe this, coupled with Trump’s wild and incoherent tariff policy, will also reverse the international monetary and trade flow in favor of the US, away from and against China.

This is a wrong concept because the monetary / trade flow in favor of China involves not just the yuan, but all those local currencies of the BRICS and BRICS associates, commanding a total of 40% to 50% or world GDP. Many of them are closely linked to the yuan and keep distancing themselves from the US dollar and its sanction policies.

Even if the BRICS have little else in common, they all want to trade outside of the US dollar stranglehold, and stick to their local currencies and to the yuan.

China has no problem getting energy from Russia, Kazakhstan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and other Asian / ASEAN associates.

Once Trump realizes that there is nothing left but a hot war with China, which means also with Russia, and all the SCO members plus other China associates, the end game may begin, or explode.

Not even his self-declared “grandeur” has a chance to survive such a WWIII-type aggression.

That might be the final demise of the US / Trump Kingdom.

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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst, regular author for Global Research, and a former Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).

Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.

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