From Donald Trump's own mouth, this is about the oil, and he and his cronies will be taking control of Venezuela. If this stood, then in 100 years' time, what were now the world's largest proven oil reserves, as well as vast reserves of gas, will be owned by Trump's descendants, backed up by the United States military in the way that the British Army and the Royal Navy gave effectively unlimited guarantees to outfits such as the East India Company.
Venezuela's oil and gas exports have mostly been to China, whose Special Envoy, Qiu Xiaoqi, met Nicolás Maduro hours before he was abducted, and may or may not have left Caracas. Israel has recognised Somaliland as somewhere to which deport the Palestinians, but also to block Chinese access to the Red Sea. What, then, of the declaration of "the State of South Arabia" in South Yemen by the UAE, which is a member of BRICS? Whither the Djibouti that hosts the Chinese Army's first overseas base, and which has agreed to host a Chinese spaceport? Whither the vast Somali Regional State of the Ethiopia that joined BRICS at the same time as the UAE? And whither the comparably enormous North Eastern Province of Kenya?
You need not suggest that some of us would have supported this incursion if Joe Biden had made it. Your claim that we must love this, that or the other feature of the existing regime is exactly what you said about each and every one of these wars, but we have been right about all of them. Every single one of them has made a very bad situation even worse, exactly as we predicted, and we are now saying the same thing both about Venezuela and about Iran.
And speaking of making a bad situation worse, both Laurence Fox, perhaps half in jest or perhaps not, and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon of the Epstein Files, repeatedly and in deadly earnest, have called on Trump to effect regime change in Britain, where there is a huge and permanent American military presence. That may not happen, but something will. Amusing though it is that Fox or Yaxley-Lennon should present himself as a scourge of the cocaine trade, Enoch Powell told Margaret Thatcher that he would have fought for Britain even if it had had a Communist Government. How far the Right has fallen.
Trump said if Venezuela resisted handing over access to US oil companies, the US could conduct a larger attack. Wars usually have overlapping causes, but the idea that this was principally about drugs - the basis for the indictment and hence the attack - is nonsense.
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