Kidnapping Just For Fun

GIVE TRUMP CREDIT. He called off any further strikes against Venezuela. Or at least he said he did. But you know how things go with Trump,in terms of sheer honesty and reliability of word. Thus, only the kidnapping of Madura, this time around, at least for now. Smoke was rising from several different places in Caracus, according to the network video. And, evidently, fire sas exchanged, and some Venezuelans were killed. Official sccounts given by the Trump administration are of course vague, murcky, and impossible to take at face value. Such is Trump. It was more than a mere kidnapping. It was an attack. From any logical perspective, the raidand kidnapping acomplished nothing; the entire rest of the Maduro regime remains intact ,from the Vice President, who now becomes president, down through the ranks to all the bureaucrats, who presumably remainin place. Everybody just moves up one notch, and Venezuela carries on. This new president lady certainly does not look like someone who would be an easy patsy for the United States to push around and give orders to. She looks tough and smart, like someone who has attended a few rodeos,so to speak, which she probably has, having somehow risen to the top of the Venezuelan political power structure. In terms od attempting to regimechange in various and sundry countries, teh United States, variably,needs to be careful what it wishes for. The prime example is the CIA, under Eisenhower, helping Castro come to power in Cuba in 1959 by running the cruel dictator Baptista out fo the counrty. Its fairto say that this little adventure in regime change nation building didn't work out at all like the American corporate plutocracy planned. Castro turned communist socialist and got in bed with the Russians and the young girls, and all that. The rest, as they say,is hsitory. Decade after decade of Castro as a huge thorn in the American corporate capitalistic side, namely. Overall, however,the signs are ominous. LittleMarco,on network television, made it abundantly clear that these United States under Trump insist on complete cooperation from the post Maduro Maduro government, meaning that Venezuela will be expected to comply with all instructions handed down by the Trump junta, with serious consequences for failing to do so. Perpetually scowling Vice President Vance went further, went back to the Monroe Doctrine, now the "Donroe Docrine" (cute, eh?): this is our hempisphere. You'd have to figure that fishing boats leaving Venezuelan ports and venturing out into the larger Caribbean to do some deep sea fishing will if it hasn't already become something of a lost art. Other that that, we can probably look forward to a few more sucker punches from old bones spurs on other weak, third world countries, the list of possible targets including Colombia, as well as a couple in North Africa. Donroe himself said flat out that he got his rocks off hitting Caracus. Another sources of spiritual orgasm for the Predator-in-Chief seems to be brutality visited upon average, upstanding, upstanding American citizens by the I.C.E. agency, which has morphed into Trump's personal Gestapo under the command of his version of Himmler, the sexy, seductive Kristi Noem. If this regime can spin a video recorded stright up murder of an innocent wife and mother by the govenment into an heroic elimination of an attacking terrorist, then it can and will spin anything into anything. That's how Trump's insurrrection, the anniversary of which we just "celebrated", became, in the Trump fun house,a harmless pep rally gone a bit overboard.