But… but… he won the FIFA Peace Prize. How could he do this? I wake up each day, hoping for the same headline but, so far, it’s always something else. Usually, it’s just the normal, Team Evil insanity. I often write parts of these posts ahead of time, as they unfold. I check the news before posting, just in case I get my wish for that desired headline. You know the one, “Trump Dead At 79.” As I’ve mentioned, so far, he has disappointed me on that each and every day. Still, hope springs eternal. Sometimes, there’s something that forces me to re-write. Today was one such. I got up, got my coffee, opened the paper and…

Holy crap, that dumbass has attacked Venezuela and taken President Maduro and his wife into custody! Pam Bondi has promised Maduro and his wife “will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.” Just for the record, that’s pretty much a clean sweep of promises made, promises NOT kept. He hasn’t lowered prices. He hasn’t provided better health care. He hasn’t fixed the economy. He didn’t “drain the swamp.” He IS the swamp. And now, he hasn’t even kept his promise not to get the US into unnecessary wars.

Put it down as yet another international war crime. Venezuela was/is no threat to the US. Venezuela has taken no military action against the US. There have been no formal declarations of war from either side. But the US military swooped into Venezuela, kidnapped Venezuela’s President, brought him back to the US under cover of darkness, and now intends to put him on trial.

It’s a violation of pretty much every international agreement ever put together. It’s going to take years just to figure out which international courts get jurisdiction first. Team Evil is counting on the adage that might makes right. Still, they’re wrong. They’re setting the stage for their own version of the Nuremberg Trials. I suggest they be called ‘The Caracas Trials’ in this case.

Reports say the US attacked both civilian and military targets. That’s Trump, murdering civilians in an attempt to sate his own demons. The UK was quick to step up and disavow any knowledge or participation in the crime. Putin called his puppet, too. Russia is demanding “immediate” clarification about the circumstances of the capture of Maduro. Much of Venezuela’s oil goes to China. Well, it did. I’m guessing the Chinese are going to be interested in the theft of Venezuelan oil, too. In fact, every country that has taken a position on Donny’s misadventure in Venezuela as of this writing has condemned the action.

The plan (threat) is to put Maduro and his wife on trial – ostensibly for selling drugs in the United States. Who believes that? Donny pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States during his time in office. How strongly could Donny be opposed to someone selling drugs in the US if he’s pardoning them after trying to sell 400 tons of cocaine?

The oil makes a lot more sense. The effing oil wars just never end, do they? Even after we’re able to shuffle off the yoke of addiction to oil, the oil wars continue. We don’t even need the crap. The LAST time Republicans and the oil corporations wanted to steal a bunch of oil, the US was treated to the fiction that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq. He didn’t. The US knew he didn’t. International weapons inspectors swore up one side and down the other, he didn’t. Even US weapons inspectors said he didn’t have any.

The US attacked anyway. How many people died? How many were maimed for life? But the US marines are the US marines. It literally took us days to get to Baghdad and when we did, we found Saddam and ripped his head off. “THAT,” we warned, “will teach everybody NOT to try to sell their oil in any currency other than dollars.” Then we pretended some rusted old weapons buried in the desert qualified as “WMDs.” Then, since were there anyway, well, we took thousands and thousands of barrels of oil – gratis.

Apparently, Venezuela didn’t get the “only dollars” memo and has been selling oil in other currencies. Some of that was to get around sanctions. Some of it, I presume, is about trying to break the US stranglehold on oil sales. But Donny has already said the US will be “very strongly involved in Venezuela’s oil industry.” Keywords? VENEZUELA’S oil industry. This is street-level thuggery on an international scale.

Stay tuned. This has just started. I think Donny, as a result of his delusions and in concert with his desire to blot out the Trump/Epstein Files, has painted himself into quite the corner. The entire international community has condemned this illegal action. Donny is so stupid, he thinks attacking Venezuela will keep people from paying attention to the Trump/Epstein Files and/or the Jack Smith testimony in which Smith swore to Congress he had everything he needed to put Donny in jail.

But the Drumpfster’s international war crime didn’t even stop me from mentioning the Trump/Epstein Files or the Jack Smith testimony in the first reports of the criminal action. Reasonably intelligent people are capable of holding more than one thought at a time. Long term, I think all he has accomplished is to create yet another avenue of indictment just as soon as the world gets the chance. I hope the world gets the chance soon.

Dear world,
Donny has set the tone. Donny has dictated the way it should be done. You have a problem with a rogue world leader, disrupting and destabilizing everything? Sneak in at night at whisk his ass away for trial in your country. It’s okay. We won’t even say anything. Hell, we’ll pretend we don’t even know the guy and we never knew the guy. Just, someone, please, haul this boy away.

No such luck. Donny is a problem of the United States and it’s going to have to be the United States that solves that problem. But we had better hurry. Now that his insanity is splaying worldwide, the rest of the planet may not wait for us to get around to it…