After 5 months – or 2 and a half decades – of constantly escalating preparations by stepping up diplomatic, economical and secret activities, The United States yet carried out a full invasion of Venezuela, aiming to change the regime. The eventual attack aimed at kidnapping Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores of Caracas capital was short. But the run was surely not bloodless. Although we know small about precisely what happened on land, the perfectly criminal attacks of Washington on alleged smuggling boats at sea, which form the backbone of the propaganda preparatory storm, have already claimed over 100 casualties, not to mention the omitted victims of sanctions.

Then, what American officials called the "mass attack" on Venezuela occurred early in the morning of 3 January and afraid not only Caracas, but besides respective locations throughout the country. For any reason, the opposition to this "dark and deadly" (as president Donald Trump described) operation seems to be minimal. Given the long and very visible expansion of the armed forces, as well as the intellectual war run that preceded these night raids, it is hard to believe that they were a surprise. Betrayal, subversive activities, and secret, nasty deals could have played a function in this.

Although these matters will most likely stay unclear for any time—or forever—other crucial aspects of the American invasion of Venezuela are clearly clear: this is an absolutely, irreparably illegal, mass and public violation of the ban on aggressive wars contained in the United Nations Charter. Even any of the most loyal “Atlantic” vassals of America in Europe gotta admit that, for example, in a fresh column in the ultra-mainstream German regular Die Zeit.

The pretexts of Washington are, as frequently happens, tiny insults to anyone who has any sense. Venezuela and Maduro do not in any crucial way, if at all, contribute to American and endless drug problems, either in relation to cocaine or fentanyl. Maduro's 2024 election could have been fair or not. The decisive point is that specified issues must be resolved in a sovereign state and must never justify outside military intervention. And who's next? Germany for an highly dubious way (a polite term) in which their mainstream parties excluded the fresh Left BSW from parliament, which could be tantamount to a cold coup?

Strange debates, besides late heard, about Iran and Venezuela, are besides pretexts. But they indirectly point to certain facts. Maduro was punished for having dared openly to stand up for the Palestinian victims of the genocide that Israel and the United States are now doing together. And Israeli politicians, always absolute tyrants, have already utilized Trump's attack on Venezuela to endanger Iran with akin violence. Meanwhile, Trump set himself a point of honour to place his attack in the context of the assassination of Iranian General Kasem Sulejmani and an equally criminal attack on Iran during Operation Midnight Hammer.

It is not hard to realize the actual reasons for the American attack on Venezuela, partially due to the fact that American officials, including Trump himself, spoke openly about them. Venezuela has the world's largest oil deposits and besides crucial gold deposits, uncommon earth elements and another natural materials.

Trump claimed that many of these riches someway belonged to the United States and their companies (he too) and promised to recover them, which he is doing. Greed, simply and simply, is the main driver of this filthy blitzkrieg against a de facto defenseless military sacrifice. As Trump himself admitted, this is about “great wealth”.

But greed isn't everything. There's geopolitics. Like Washington's fresh interference in the elections in Argentina and Honduras, continued force on Brazil (now somewhat weakening, but who knows how long it will take), Colombia (which Trump threatens with destiny akin to Venezuela), Nicaragua and Cuba. Let us add shameless pardon to the actual Honduran drug baron, and the attack on Venezuela is besides the usage of the alleged "Donroe Doctrine". In fact, the meaning of the second is simple: it is an old, evil doctrine of Monroe – dating back over 200 years – only worse.

Marco Rubio, erstwhile Trump critic and now humbled consigliere and executioner (as State Secretary and National safety Advisor, a combination unprecedented since Henry Kissinger, a war criminal-extreordinator), stressed the threat facing Cuba in particular. Outside Trump, U.S. abroad policy is in the hands of an absolutely ruthless man who has individual intentions in the Caribbean and Latin America in general, and ambitions to become Trump's successor as President.

As stated in the fresh U.S. National safety Strategy, Washington will focus peculiar attention on its long suffering confederate neighbors and victims. The Trump proposal, deliberately referring to the old imperialist "conclusion" of president Theodore Roosevelt, aims to strengthen US dominance by all means and even stronger safety of the American empire's "court" by installing and sustaining puppets and suppressing resistance.

Finally, the United States will besides exacerbate the old policy of depriving Latin American countries of their own abroad policy – another crucial component of sovereignty – punishing them for building a relation with ‘foreign’, primarily with China, but besides with Russia. This was 1 of the many "sins" of Venezuela, and no 1 in the region will miss the cruel lesson that Washington has just given.

Trump can't imagine defeat. He stated that “American dominance in the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again. This will not happen." But of course, in fact, failure is simply a real anticipation for him, no little than for another arrogant mortals. In the long or short term, his violent, hyper-imperialistist strategy may fail. It may even origin a devastating reaction. However, as is frequently the case with the United States, their failures besides leave the victims in ruins.

Meanwhile, even a reliable proponent of American imperialism, Hal Brands, warns that Trump's methods can have the other effect by setting precedents, specified as how China can 1 day do with Taiwan. The comparison is deeply, demagoguely incorrect due to the fact that Beijing has legitimate claims to Taiwan, while Washington has no claims to Venezuela or to kidnap Maduro and his wife as embarrassingly trying to pretend to be Brands.

And frankly, even if Brands did not announcement this from behind his chair by Henry Kissinger, the United States has long given 1 precedent after another, breaking all laws, all principles and all basic moral norms, for example by complicity in the genocide in the Gaza Strip with Israel. However, the attack on Venezuela adds another aspect of American illegality. Ironically, any aspiring friends of Washington will never comprehend the absolute selfishness and immorality of American politics. 2 specified comically ill-adjusted characters are Vladimir Zelenski from Ukraine and Maria Corina Machado from Venezuela.

Zelenski erstwhile published posts about the “discovery” of Russian agents in Venezuela, trying to delight himself by making a individual contribution to the siege of the country by the US. Now, as a noisy and increasingly useless "customer", it can itself become the mark of an American government change. Machado, who indecently tried to impress the Americans as she was willing to obey them and sale her country along with its resources, was just thrown out by Trump like a utilized wiper. At his triumphant press conference, the U.S. president mentioned it in vain – as a individual who does not have what it takes to regulation Venezuela. So much for cheating and sucking up. halt fooling around, Maria, you just got fired. Jolani was removed as a subordinate, you were not.

Ironically, Machado's outrageous receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize may have ended badly. Trump is jealous, and he surely thought the award should go to him. And in a way, he's right. Although he does not deserve it at all, it is hard to deny that Machado deserved it more. The Nobel Peace Prize has long been a grim joke. But its usage as part of the preparatory run for invasion inactive seems peculiarly shameful. It's time to end this shameful charade.

Overall, the American President's press conference was Trump's authentic performance, with its customary pompousness in full. Attributing merit for the "spectacular" attack on Venezuela, he praised him as "one of the most astonishing, effective and powerful shows of American military power and competence" and a feat that had not been seen since planet War II. Trump was besides busy bragging to announcement that his own revelations about the operation suggested a little heroic scenario: “overwhelming” US forces were utilized and not 1 American soldier or “element of equipment” was executed. Whatever it was, it was not a large – or honest – fight.

The president of the United States has fundamentally confirmed what we already know – the United States wants virtually all Venezuela's goods, but oil is at the top of the want list. Washington believes that it should “rule” the country until a “leadership transfer” is arranged, that is, of course, to establish a puppet regime. In another words, a sincere application of the stronger principle, with a minimum amount of rhetorical nonsense about how average Venezuelans will benefit and “will besides be taken care of”. If it sounds involuntaryly sinister, it's due to the fact that it is. And all this in the shadow of the same American armada that just attacked the country and is ready to do it again whenever Washington wants. Gangster politics 101.

In her own way, the president's press conference actually represented something crucial in this war. Namely, how strangely average things have become, which is absolutely unusual. What Washington just did is simply a horror of crime, greed and arrogance. But it was besides what was to be expected. The same applies to the absurdly hypocritical reactions of his vassals from NATO and the EU, who believe that the only thing they can do is “watch”. Good luck!

In a more average – although far from perfect – planet everyone would yet realize that by far the most dangerous country in the planet is the United States. This is true, whether it is measured by possible or by pure moral madness, corruption and brutality. In a average world, even the top antagonists would find a way to cooperate to halt and deter this geopolitical Godzilla on speed. But this planet is not born yet. Multipolarity alone is not enough.

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