During 2025, the White House's foreign policy was characterized by the implementation of a hegemonic destabilization program, revealing that the main threat to world peace emanates from the power that proclaims itself its principal guarantor.
Codified at the end of the year in the U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) 2025, this global approach, which promotes insecurity, deepened conflicts and threatened the sovereignty of nations.
The NSS established a framework for the systematic destabilization of governments and regions considered obstacles to U.S. interests, prioritizing the Western Hemisphere, without abandoning its actions at the global level.
In the Americas, this strategy translated into a kind of declaration of ownership over its natural resources, justifying their appropriation by force for use in the geopolitical confrontation with Russia and China.
The region, threatened by the presence of the U.S. Navy deployed in the Caribbean, suffered the updated version of the Monroe Doctrine, enriched by the initiatives of the Trump administration.
The U.S. strategy against Venezuela has followed a clear pattern: it began with visa bans on individuals, expanded to sectoral sanctions (finance, oil), and finally culminated in a near-total economic blockade.
The public narrative thus shifted from the supposed defense of human rights to accusations of narco-terrorism, reaching the point where the Trump administration granted the U.S. Navy carte blanche to attack civilian vessels and steal oil tankers if Venezuela does not relinquish its "right to plunder."
Without providing any details, senior White House officials indicated that the military campaign aims to pressure President Nicolás Maduro to "step aside."
In line with this policy of dispossession in Latin America, 2025 saw a much more aggressive approach to controlling the supply chains of critical minerals, especially lithium in the "Lithium Triangle" (Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile), under the pretext of "national security."
SUPPORT FOR ALLIED GOVERNMENTS AND PUNISHMENT OF REBELS
U.S. policy is selective, punishing progressive governments and openly supporting right-wing and far-right allies, even interfering in electoral processes if deemed necessary.
Washington has combined economic sanctions, covert military operations, the use of legal mechanisms (lawfare), psychological warfare, funding of internal oppositions, and disinformation campaigns to influence electoral processes and ensure governments aligned with Washington's interests.
To cite a concrete example, an economic bailout was approved for Javier Milei's government in Argentina days before crucial legislative elections—a clear interference in that process.
Another example of self-serving interference was the pardon granted to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of drug trafficking, while the White House expressed its support for a right-wing candidate during the electoral process in that Central American country.
Against the "Axis of Evil"—Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela—we are witnessing a rethinking of the subversive strategy, giving way, first and foremost, to the use of large media and technology conglomerates.
The objective is twofold: to maximize control over the financing of hybrid warfare and, at the same time, to apply unprecedented economic and financial pressure against dissenting governments.
Furthermore, they seek to close off routes for legal and illegal migration and create a "pressure cooker" within "enemy" countries that provokes mass protests and ungovernability, thus justifying "humanitarian aid."
Under the pretext of combating drug trafficking and controlling migration, the U.S. has increased its indirect military presence by establishing "monitoring" centers in allied countries, which function as surveillance points over critical infrastructure, such as the Panama Canal and the Strait of Magellan.
In Haiti, United States favor for the Kenya-led Multinational Support Mission drew strong criticism, while armed groups took advantage of the power vacuum to subjugate the country.
Plan Colombia, renewed on its 25th anniversary, with its foundations for so-called "regional containment," sought to position Colombia as a platform to pressure Venezuela and control the Amazon.
The management of migration flows was used as a tool for political change. The United States pressured transit countries (such as Mexico, Guatemala, and Panama) to act as barriers, generating tensions and forcing them to accept unfavorable economic and security conditions.
Meanwhile, it implemented a policy of criminalizing, persecuting, imprisoning, and expelling immigrants within the United States, establishing detention centers whose conditions have been denounced by humanitarian organizations as cruel and inhumane.
UNITED STATES AGAINST THE WORLD
The 2025 assessment reveals a crisis of American hegemony and the global architecture created after World War II: Washington seeks a reconfiguration of the world order using coercion and force.
The White House sought to defend its hegemony through sanctions against China, a tariff war and tensions in Taiwan, pressure on Russia, and support for Kyiv with millions of dollars—money that continued to flow despite the peace talks that Donald Trump attempted to lead in an effort to save his ally from the brink of disaster.
Attempts to expand NATO's influence and maintain the conflict in Ukraine increased, with the latter used as a tool to weaken the Russian Federation and ensure Europe's energy dependence on American gas.
Following the initial tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico – established between February and March – on April 2, Trump announced "Economic Independence Day" and presented an unfair and unrealistic design of reciprocal tariffs applied on a virtually global scale.
In this context, in the Middle East, Washington persisted in its unconditional support for its strategic allies, which exacerbated regional instability and hindered conflict resolution in Gaza and Lebanon, keeping the region in a state of permanent humanitarian crisis.
The current administration's unconditional support for Israel perpetuated the United States commitment to the Zionist entity, making it responsible for the crimes committed against the Palestinian, Lebanese, and Iranian peoples, victims of the weapons generously supplied by Washington.
The death toll in Gaza since October 2023 exceeds 75,000, the majority of them women and children; 95% of the population is displaced; there are outbreaks of cholera and widespread famine; and infrastructure is completely destroyed: no functioning hospitals, no water or electricity systems—this is the toll of U.S. policy. The region now faces three overlapping crises: the genocide against the Palestinian people, a cold war that could turn hot at any moment between Iran and Israel, and a new ISIS terrorist sanctuary in Syria that threatens global stability.
Meanwhile, in the Asia-Pacific region, the U.S. military presence has increased in the South China Sea and around Taiwan. The United States has increased arms sales to Taiwan, including Patriot missiles and cyber defense systems, and conducted joint naval exercises with its Quad allies (Japan, India, and Australia).
A complex 2026 is expected, in which a US reinterpretation of the Monroe Doctrine will emphasize the weakening of the alliance between Latin American countries and the Brics, as well as the integration processes of Celac and ALBA-TCP.
The greatest risk for the region will not be so much a military invasion—a scenario that cannot be ruled out—but rather the systematic erosion of sovereignty through economic coercion, the politicization of the judiciary, and the militarization of public security: an arsenal of tools already tested by Washington against its adversaries.
Sources: BBC, NYT, CNN, EFE, TeleSur, Grupo de Puebla Net, Lemondediplomatique.cl, wsws.org
