Puncturing its own sanctions against Venezuela's thuggish regime, on November 26th America granted permission for Chevron, a big American oil firm, to crank up its production there.
There will be big gains for anti-EU and anti-immigrant parties of all colours—from the sharp-tongued nativists of the UK Independence Party to the thuggish neo-Nazis of Golden Dawn in Greece.
His legacy is clouded by the excess and indulgence he displayed prior to becoming Emperor, and by the somewhat thuggish nature he displayed when he was praetorian prefect and in charge of the security of his father's regime.