Early Saturday, January 3rd, the Trump regime conducted a blatant and illegal act of war against Venezuela by bombing civilian and military sites and illegally kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
This act of aggression is a imperialistic continuation of U.S. policies against the sovereign South American country with attempts to seize and plunder Venezuela’s natural resources and threatens the sovereignty of other countries in Latin America.
The aggression goes against the will of the American people and against our Constitution. Nearly 70% of Americans oppose another war and reject the endless cycle of military interventions carried out in their name.
Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to military action in Venezuela, according to a Quinnipiac poll published in mid-December amid an escalation of U.S. pressure on President Nicolás Maduro.
Sixty-three percent of respondents told Quinnipiac they are against military action against Caracas, which President Donald Trump has repeatedly declined to rule out, with just 25 percent expressing support. And 53 percent of respondents said they opposed the administration’s use of military strikes to kill alleged drug smugglers in international waters.
As domestic and international condemnations of the attack and kidnapping mount up, there are typical sycophantic expressions of support from Trumpian Republicans.
In the past months, the United States has:
- bombed 36 boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific and killed more than 117 people;
- seized two tankers containing over 1.8 million barrels of Venezuelan oil;
- unilaterally imposed a “total and complete blockade” on Venezuelan oil shipments;
- designated the democratically elected government of Venezuela a “Foreign Terrorist Organization”;
- backed opposition figures to push regime change;
- and launched psychological warfare with threats against the Venezuelan people.
We cite Commondreams:
This comes after decades of unilateral coercive measures, including a lethal sanctions regime that has killed over 100,000 people, theft of companies like CITGO, and seizure of billions of dollars of sovereign assets.
The U.S. now claims Maduro will face “criminal charges” in a U.S. court. This sham proceeding will be done under the auspices of “drug trafficking” — but we know it has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with Trump’s policy of regime change. “Drug trafficking” in Venezuela is this generation’s “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, a familiar pretext for regime change. Polls show that people in the U.S. may know better now than to sign off on a regime-change war.
In the next few days, as the death toll and destruction of the U.S. attacks is revealed and the country faces continued imperialist aggression, we must stand steadfast with the people of Venezuela. This aggression is being carried out in our name, despite the overwhelming opposition of the U.S. public to war on Venezuela.
The same playbook of lies that destroyed Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, as well as decades of coups across Asia, Africa, and Latin America is being used again. The Trump regime thinks Latin America is their backyard to squander and dictate. Let us rise against this Monroe Doctrine 2.0 and oppose imperialist aggression against Venezuela.
History shows that wars can be stopped when people force them into the open. That is why we are calling for immediate, visible, nationwide action. Take to the streets. Organize emergency protests. Flood congressional offices with calls and demands. Make it impossible for this war to proceed quietly, legally disguised, or uncontested.
The world does not need another U.S.-made catastrophe. Venezuela deserves sovereignty. Latin America deserves peace. And people in the United States deserve a future not stolen by endless war.
Trump ordered the Venezuela leader President Nicolás?Maduro and his wife from Caracas to be kidnapped. Under international law, one state is prohibited from using force within the territory of another without consent or United Nations Security Council authorisation. Article?2(4) of the UN Charter forbids threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, except in self?defense or with Security Council approval. Critics say drug trafficking, even if affecting US citizens, does not constitute an armed attack and therefore does not justify unilateral military action.
https://www.printernational.co.uk/timmann2/history.htm
the US now does what it wants to after Trump’s 4 years we’re going to be dealing with this for a long time
you are completely correct, Rich smart people playing on people’s ignorance has went too far, no one will ever forget the things that have changed that we have always taken for granted in a democracy
I distinctly recall reading in the newspapers in 1964 that Shell Oil company appealed to President Lyndon B. Johnson to help them get their oil rigs back from North Viet Nam that had been nationalized. The Diem Regime in South also appealed to the United States for help to fight pesky guerilla warriors bothering their rubber plantations, so the United States sent United States Army Green Berets to train local villages to defend themselves. Yes, I read this in a National Geographic magazine that played down the Shell Oil complaints. But the issue of Shell Oil rig nationalization was a topic of discussion in 1964. By 1965, the biggest military buildup since Korea happened in South Viet Nam and by 1970, President Richard M. Nixon illegally expanded the war to Cambodia and Laos. Has everyone forgotten the Viet Nam War started over nationalizatoin of Shell Oil drilling rigs? Apparently so, as President 47 invaded Venezuela a few days ago to recover nationalized Citco oil rigs under the guize of bringing President Maduro and his wife to “justice.” Once again, history is about to repeat itself.
Clinical Psychologist Mary Trump talks reality for 7 minutes (posted yesterday):
Trump Implodes as His Lies Continue to Fail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7goTpyfor_Q
Can his inner circle of corrupt sycophants keep the wheels on this murderous mad clown car?
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It is a bitter irony that we are invading Venezuela for the oil. Right now, our whole environment, the natural systems of weather and ocean currents that we depend on for our very lives, is on the brink of collapse because of oil. Most of the people who have immigrated here in the last couple of decades are here, directly or indirectly because of climate change. This is true in Europe as well, because drought in the global south is driving people off the farms and into the cities, leading to exploitation, poverty and violence. Then they migrate north seeking safety, work and survival. Now, we have Trump, persecuting those climate refugees and at the same time, trying to make the situation worse by pumping more oil.
No John, our entire environment, and all natural weather systems that are integrated to work with one another, are already in a state of collapse. It’s a big system, and like an avalanche, it takes a while to get going. But once started, like a cornice breaking off the top of the mountain, it moves faster and faster.
That’s where climate destabilization is at the moment; the scientists are saying it is accelerating faster than even the most ‘alarmist’ expected in their worst nightmares. Funny to think about, that the ones who were dismissed as kooks by ‘mainstream’ science reporting (read: captured and funded by fossil fuel interests) were actually quite conservative in their predictions. It turns out that many of the most worrying aspects of what they saw coming was far more susceptible to the forcing that radical increases in atmospheric GHGs from burning more and more oil which causes the extreme ocean heating from sucking the CO2 from the air.
Surprisingly, even some in the mainstream media is reporting on it:
2025 was so hot it pushed Earth past critical climate change mark, scientists say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-2025-critical-mark-eclipsed/?utm_
And we have now passed 7 of 9 planetary boundaries, too, which is really not good.
But to be honest, anything to distract from the Epstein Files massive criminal cover-up by DJT appointees is going to be used at this point by the corporate media. Even Trump lying about and starting a war with a country, just like Dick Cheney and Wbush did in 2003….because who is going to remember that he just pardoned a murderous Honduran dictator convicted of smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the US just a couple of weeks before he kidnaps a president for…smuggling cocaine? A country that has the largest reserves of oil on the planet, and a hell of a lot of unmined rare earth minerals in its territory. The US population has the attention span of a 3 year old…
On a more personal note; it’s January 5th up here in these mountains on the Canadian Border…and there isn’t any snow. And yesterday was 42’F and it was raining. Used to be 4 feet of pack around the house by now….my local ski hill just opened a few days ago…with 7 inches of mostly man-made ‘snow’ around the lodge and lifts. How’s that for the Wbush’s PR flack invented description of ‘climate change?’
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