There has always been an irremediable gap between the hypothetical high morality of Western culture and its habitual practice of pillage and massacre around the world. However, with the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan in 1945, the Western powers established the United Nations Organization and manipulated it to lend a veneer of legitimacy to a new phase of their imperialism. Now, there is a broad consensus around the world that Western support for Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people and now the brutal illegal kidnapping of the president of a peaceful country, Venezuela, demonstrate the effective collapse of international law.