Justice won’t be served, but cheer up. You can also argue this is just business as usual. For example, this is not the first foreign leader the US has kidnapped. There have been a few. Fun fact: Noriega* was also kidnapped on the third of January. And hey, if Maduro is convicted for drug trafficking, maybe Trump can pardon him like he did the former drug trafficking president of Honduras.
Sure, Hegseth is an alcoholic nazi. But unlike Colin Powell, he didn’t start his career in politics by whitewashing the My Lai massacre, and hasn’t contributed to the death of up to 1.2 million people (yet).
And if the government of Venezuela doesn’t decide to spontaneously cave and Trump does decide to send the troops in, I’m sure this particular Special Military Operation will be over in three days.
*Bit of a tangent, have you read the wikipedia article on Noriega? It’s a real eye-opener. For example:
… The district court held that information about the operations in which Noriega had played a part supposedly in return for payment from the U.S. was not relevant to his defense. It ruled that “the tendency of such evidence to confuse the issues before the jury substantially outweighed any probative value it might have had.” … Information about Noriega’s connections to the CIA, including his alleged contact with Bush, were kept out of the trial.
They convicted him of drug trafficking, but failed to mention to the jury that he’d also been doing it for the US government and the CIA.
TLDR: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Never mind the fact that the only reason the CIA’s boy - Noriega - came to power in Panama was thanks to the assassination of Omar Torrijos… almost certainly at the hands of the CIA.
Justice won’t be served, but cheer up. You can also argue this is just business as usual. For example, this is not the first foreign leader the US has kidnapped. There have been a few. Fun fact: Noriega* was also kidnapped on the third of January. And hey, if Maduro is convicted for drug trafficking, maybe Trump can pardon him like he did the former drug trafficking president of Honduras.
Sure, Hegseth is an alcoholic nazi. But unlike Colin Powell, he didn’t start his career in politics by whitewashing the My Lai massacre, and hasn’t contributed to the death of up to 1.2 million people (yet).
And if the government of Venezuela doesn’t decide to spontaneously cave and Trump does decide to send the troops in, I’m sure this particular Special Military Operation will be over in three days.
*Bit of a tangent, have you read the wikipedia article on Noriega? It’s a real eye-opener. For example:
They convicted him of drug trafficking, but failed to mention to the jury that he’d also been doing it for the US government and the CIA.
TLDR: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Never mind the fact that the only reason the CIA’s boy - Noriega - came to power in Panama was thanks to the assassination of Omar Torrijos… almost certainly at the hands of the CIA.
His son Martín Torrijos was also president for a bit. Elected, not a dictator.
The Trump administration revoked his visa a few months ago. Basically a warning not to criticise the US government.
So I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s one of the next interventions. Venezuela, Cuba, Columbia, Mexico, Panama, …
On the bright side as a European, perhaps this will keep Trump distracted for a few years, before he starts bombing Greenland and Denmark.