Kidnapped

And as we were posting overnight, Donald Trump ordered a military assault on Venezuela and essentially kidnapped their president, Nicolas Maduro. And there are of course a number of dimensions and issues to this action on the part of Trump that we need to assess.

For one, the Western media has termed this act as a “capture” and that Maduro has been “deposed.” Trump himself labeled it as a “capture” of Maduro which of course presumes that we in the United States were in a war with Venezuela that has been approved by Congress. But what if in reality it simply amounts to a lawless kidnapping? After all, there are numerous cases of individuals having been just swept off the streets and made to disappear in America since the day Trump took office almost a year ago. If Trump can kidnap and make people to disappear on American streets, he will do it in Venezuela as well. But in the case of Maduro, it was very much personal for Trump.

It is therefore largely a matter of semantics as it always is in power politics and war. “Captured” and “deposed” to some. Kidnapping and destabilization to others in order to face what is likely to be a sham trial in America. It is all a matter of interpretation and semantics in the very end. Moreover, where is the supposed “opposition” to fill the power vacuum that has now been left behind in Venezuela after Maduro’s kidnapping? We either focus on the sham trial of Maduro that will now take place in America after he emerges from his kidnapping, or we focus on the power vacuum that has now emerged in Venezuela because of the kidnapping.

It is also a question of whether the rule of law can withstand a president that has now gone totally off the rails. We also have to question the basic ethics and morality of the American system as a whole for having produced a president like this. Not only do we bring the efficacy of international law under the microscope as a result of Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro, but we will also have to see whether the rule of law here in America can withstand another three years of Trump because of what is essentially the inherent corruption and evil of America. Also, whereas the United States went through with full-blown regime change in places like Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya and finally Syria over the course of the last two and a half decades or so, there is no sign that the regime has actually changed in Venezuela as a result of Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro. Maduro’s vice president can simply take over his position with the backing of law enforcement and the security forces. Will Trump then go back to Venezuela and kidnap his vice president as well? Thus, there are more questions than answers which result or stem from Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro. We cannot even count this action as a case of traditional American evil empire regime change. This is something entirely different and out of the ordinary, and if anything, it is the culmination and the outcome of approximately two and a half decades of this exact same kind of behavior on the part of the American deep state which will only escalate and intensify World War III. And once World War III escalates and intensifies, it becomes a matter of whether a debt-ridden and dysfunctional American system can survive it all or whether it will just simply implode.