"he invoked the Monroe doctrine: while the US president sounded like he was reading about it for the first time, historians of course recognized the idea of Washington as a kind of guardian of the western hemisphere. Together with the national security strategy published in December, the move on Venezuela can be understood as advancing a vision for carving up the world into what the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt called great spaces, with each effectively supervised by a great power"
"The theory of the mafia state was first elaborated by the Hungarian sociologist Balint Magyar in 2016. Such a state is less about corruption where envelopes change hands under the table. Instead, public procurement is rigged; large companies are brought under the control of regime-friendly oligarchs, who in turn acquire media to provide favorable coverage to the ruler. The beneficiaries are what Magyar calls the extended political family (which can include the ruler's natural family)."
Trump invoked the Monroe Doctrine to justify interventionist moves toward Venezuela, framing Washington as guardian of the western hemisphere. The December national security strategy advances a vision of dividing the world into great spaces supervised by great powers—Washington, Moscow and Beijing—echoing Carl Schmitt's idea. Trump signaled intent to run the country for the benefit of US oil companies, exemplifying the internationalization of mafia-state logic. Mafia-state features include rigged public procurement, capture of large companies by regime-friendly oligarchs, media control to favor rulers, and an extended political family sustained by unconditional loyalty. Public pardons, suspended anti-bribery enforcement, and visible cronyism expose the model.
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