Trump’s coup against Venezuela and threats to Greenland show the fracture of the global extreme right

The military incursion of USA in Venezuela and the threat of Donald Trump to replicate his interventionism in Greenland They are exposing the fracture that divides the extreme right global. “Ultranationalist parties share a narrativebut they have never had a unified position, each one responds based on their interests,” explains the expert in authoritarianism. Franco Delle Donneauthor of the book Ultra Epidemic.

After violating international law with a operation in Caracas which ended with the kidnapping and prosecution of the Venezuelan autocrat Nicolas Madurothe White House has reiterated its interest in taking control of Greenland, the strategic island with vast reserves of natural resources and belonging to Denmark that the American president has dreamed of annexing since his first term. That “new imperialism“—as defined Emmanuel Macron— has disoriented some of the reactionary forces that see Trump as a moral compass and who now speak out or remain silent depending on their geographical, political and electoral contexts.

Faithful protrumpists

Delle Donne classifies them into three groups. The first is that of the most extreme pro-Trumpists, who have celebrated the action of Washington against the Bolivarian regime. There is the Argentine president, Javier Miley; the Chilean president-elect, José Antonio Kastor the movement led by the former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaroall of them faithful allies of the Trumpism. “They share the demonization of chavismo as an element of a discourse that allows them to mobilize fears, so it is easier for them to position themselves in favor of Trump without losing coherence,” analyzes the doctor in Communication. The decision to USA of belittling opposition leader María Corina Machado—who ‘snatched’ Trump’s desired Nobel Peace Prize— and keep Delcy Rodriguez At the head of the Caribbean country he has torpedoed positions such as those of Milei, whose Executive has maneuvered to accommodate the decisions made from the Oval Office.

In that first group there is also Vox. The Spanish national conservative party, chaired by Santiago Abascal and who does not stop rising in the polls, publicly staged his “joy” with the capture of Maduro, whom he has linked to the Government of Pedro Sanchez. However, he has remained silent after a threat to Greenland which, if executed, could implode the I’LL TAKE. “For European ultras, this generates contradictions that represent a more complex problem,” remarks Delle Donne. “And, unlike the Swiss extreme right, Vox cannot speak out in favor of the people of Greenland freely deciding their future because that conflicts with their narrative of a Spain united.”

Reaction against

Trump’s interventionist doctrine also arouses significant misgivings in other far-right parties. No ultra leader has been more explicit in that sense than the French Marine Le Penof National Regrouping. “The sovereignty of States is never negotiable, whatever their size, whatever their power, whatever their continent. It is inviolable and sacred. To renounce this principle today for Venezuela, for any State, would be equivalent to accepting our own servitude tomorrow,” denounced the visible face of the first political force intending to vote in France according to the polls. Le Pen is in the middle of an appeal trial against the sentence that disqualifies her for five years.

In this group is part of Alternative for Germany (AfD), the eurosceptic and Islamophobic party that also appears first in the polls. Its inclusion is partial, as it is divided into two factions represented in a two-headed co-presidency: the Trumpist wing, headed by Alice Weideland the pro-Russian wing close to Chinaled by Tino Chrupalla.

In the middle

In the middle of both positions are heavyweights of the European extreme right who try to balance their alliance with Trump with some criticism. This is the case of the president of Italia, Giorgia Meloni. The Italian post-fascist, who has managed to reconvert her image as a pragmatic stateswoman, has shown her disagreement with Trump, emphasizing that the international law “should be widely defended,” and has ruled out hypothetical US military action in Greenland as “unrealistic.”

The British response has been more ambiguous and uncomfortable. Nigel Faragefrom the right-wing populist party Reform UKwhich also leads the polls in the United Kingdom. Farage assured that the action against Venezuela was “unorthodox and contrary to international law,” but added that if it made Russia y China “Think twice, it could be something positive.”

This is also the case of the president of Hungary, Viktor Orbán. The leader of the ultra-conservative Fidesz party, who is running for re-election in April, has opted for an unusual position by celebrating that the growing power of the United States in global reserves of oil will allow you to influence the price of the energy and create “a more favorable energy situation” for the interests of Budapest. In relation to Greenland, Orbán has limited himself to saying that it is a “NATO issue” that must be managed internally.

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