I hate the framing of the debate when people argue about whether it was in “our” interest to capture Maduro and generally intervene in Venezuela. Perhaps we can speculate on how bad it will work out, but it completely ignores the immorality of the whole thing. Imagine I hit a grandmother over the head and take her purse. Then a debate ensues about whether it will really benefit me over the longer run. There is a large ethical problem that lingers here. I don’t care if “we” can get rich by taking over Venezuela’s oil. It is highly immoral and evil.
I am beginning to think that Trump is more of a socialist dictator than Maduro. At least Maduro confined his socialism to just the people of Venezuela.
The new mayor of New York City is also a socialist. Can he possibly be any worse than kidnapping a president, and declaring that he will now be “running” the country and controlling the oil? At least his socialism is confined to New York City where the people actually elected him.
The excuses keep changing and expanding for going into Venezuela. It is quite similar to the story of Iraq in 2003. The narrative quickly shifted from weapons of mass destruction to “liberating the Iraqi people”.
Even if Maduro was not legitimately elected, Trump wasn’t elected anything in Venezuela. How many MAGA people justify Trump’s invasion because Maduro wasn’t legitimately elected, yet they also believe that Trump won the 2020 election? By their standard, I guess Putin, Xi, or any other world leader could have bombed Washington DC in 2021, kidnapped Biden, and declared they would be running the United States until the proper transition had taken place.
Maduro is being indicted on drug and weapons charges. Apparently, U.S. gun laws apply to the entire world, including foreign presidents and militaries in their own countries. Isn’t almost every world leader in violation of U.S. gun laws?
It would be hilarious if Maduro – the socialist – were to defend himself in court by arguing that U.S. gun laws are contrary to the 2nd Amendment. Maybe he should up the ante and argue that U.S. drug laws violate the 10th Amendment. I can just picture the attorney for Maduro: “Where in Article 1, Section 8 is any authority granted to the federal government of the United States to make laws prohibiting drugs?”
Trump has already fallen hard. The only true allies he has left are some hardcore MAGA people and the Republican war hawks. The war hawks are just simply using and abusing Trump. They will turn on him when it is convenient. Trump is a total disgrace. He is completely unhinged at this point. We can only hope that his power will get cut off one way or another before he gets us into a major war.
J.D. Vance is just a weak piece of garbage. He is trying his best to justify all of this violence from Trump and company. He has almost no chance of becoming president unless Trump doesn’t make it to January 2029.
The left is still useless (and worse), but I am not going to stop them right now from going after Trump, even though they still get so much wrong. Yes, Trump is just extending power that has grown over the last 100 plus years. Still, we need as much criticism as possible of Trump at this point because he is a total maniac who sees no limits to his use of violence.