THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

IUpdate (January 2026)

I have added a brief update to an earlier essay, The Snake’s Head Doctrine, written in August 2025, which examined the vulnerability of regime leadership under conditions of hemispheric consolidation and identified Venezuela as a likely pressure point. The recent seizure of Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces underscores the mechanism described there, not as foresight, but as pattern recognition.

This action effectively reasserts the Monroe Doctrine (1823)—the long-standing U.S. position opposing foreign colonialism and extra-regional intervention in the Western Hemisphere and treating it as a distinct sphere of influence. Under Donald Trump, that doctrine appears to have been modernized from a diplomatic warning to an operational principle.

The focus is hemispheric, not episodic: stretching from Greenland in the north, through the Panama Canal, and across pressure points including Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Bolivia—states characterized by communist, socialist, or hard-left governance and varying degrees of Russian, Chinese, or Iranian influence.

What is emerging is not traditional empire, but hemispheric enforcement: securing transit, evicting extra-regional power, and making leadership survivability conditional. The implications extend well beyond Venezuela.

A link to The Snake’s Head Doctrine is provided here; that essay now includes a current news reference documenting the Maduro operation, so readers can assess the analysis alongside verified reporting.