Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday said, "We don't want that [confrontation] but it is our duty to be ready to avoid it… and if it were unavoidable, to win it."

President Donald Trump awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on Tuesday to Chief Warrant Officer Eric Slover, one of the pilots involved in the recent U.S. military raid in Venezuela, praising his bravery under enemy fire during his State of the Union address.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said that ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro should face legal accountability in his own country rather than in the United States. Lula made the remarks during an interview while visiting India for an artificial intelligence summit, stressing that Venezuela’s national sovereignty must take precedence over foreign intervention.

China has reportedly purchased Venezuelan oil that was previously acquired by the United States.

The world is entering a phase in which sovereignty is no longer measured solely by flags and armies. A country’s vulnerability is increasingly defined by its position within the global financial architecture. Venezuela has emerged as a stark warning: the violent “extraction” of a sovereign nation’s leader under the pretext of combating crime has shattered lingering assumptions about the reliability of international law and the established rules of the game.