Maduro was never the target. The US finally created conditions on the ground and at sea for Venezuela to free Maduro from the crime lords who he was the figurehead for. This is not to paint him as a good man or bad. He was a guy in front to take the heat. The puppet, the scapegoat.
Trump, @secwar
etc. decided the best move is to take out the real criminals, stop the ‘fake regime change’ operation of Maria Machado on behalf of Davos and London, and free Venezuela from these pricks.
Maduro wouldn’t roll over if he didn’t think Trump had the upper hand. This is what is fundamentally wrong with most anti-war commentators in 2025-6, they do not understand that war is the default position of the world today, it’s just not national armies moving across arbitrary political borders. No the wars are waged by non-state actors hiding under the skirts of “State Leaders” and the minute someone finally reveals that state of affairs, the feckless anti-war leftists scream “Empire!” (like @caitoz
and many others who I would like to still call friends) because they would lose their worker’s revolution and their relevance.
And the anti-war right revealed themselves to be bed-wetting apologists for their own pathetic passivity.
A pox on both their houses. Good on Trump. Fix this mess. Stop the drugs, the money laundering, the price fixing (gold, silver, oil), the child trafficking and everything else Venezuela represents. Kill the decades old Langley and GCHQ funding operations aimed at creating global chaos, displacing and/or enslaving hundreds of millions if not billions of people, to pluck the highest quality grifters among them as invasion armies to our homes.
And then call us fucking ‘racists’ for not wanting to pay for it all.
If supporting this type of “gunboat diplomacy” makes me a fascist or an authoritarian to these anti-war types, then I’m ironing my Hugo Boss styled suit (replete with tailored pants!) and trimming my mustache.







