An excerpt from Andrew O'Hehir's "Venezuela: Our Criminal President's Latest Crime Scene" in Salon.com:
"The unprovoked American invasion of Venezuela, the apparent decapitation of its government and the abduction or kidnapping (or 'arrest,' if we must) of Maduro and his wife are signs of both the Trump regime’s strength and its fatal weakness. That isn’t a contradiction, exactly. It’s more like an existential dilemma, both for our bewildered and benighted country and for the world.
"On one hand, Donald Trump is tangibly losing popular support, physical strength and cognitive capacity. His administration and his political movement are almost literally bleeding out, plagued by infighting and faced with likely defeat in the upcoming midterm elections. This reckless violation of international law — specifically, if anyone actually cares, a violation of Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter, which states the basic principle that nation-states must respect each other’s sovereignty — is an act of political desperation, like a drunken gambler going all-in on a bad hand at 3 a.m.
"But this could not have happened at all if Trump and his minions had not entirely captured the machineries of state in the United States: The American coup presaged the Venezuelan coup, and the second is a late-stage byproduct of the first. There’s no telling how bad the blowback will be from either or both, but let me make a bold prediction: Really bad, and it will take decades to unfold." (our emphasis)
O'Hehir's entire article is an excellent read on the depraved Malignant Fascist's latest crime.
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