How Operation Absolute Resolve Rewrote Global Norms – OpEd

In the early hours of January 3, 2026, the international order did not just bend; it broke. The images of a blindfolded Nicolás Maduro, whisked away from Caracas to a federal detention center in Brooklyn, signal something far more consequential than a mere arrest. The spectacle of a sovereign leader answering to a local magistrate in Manhattan yesterday (January 5), further underscores the reduction of international diplomacy to a domestic criminal docket. We are witnessing the birth of a world...