Any sane person should be appalled that a US president can bomb another nations capital and abduct its leader in an unprovoked attack. But this isn’t new. The US has done this dozens of times, from Mossadegh in Iran, to Allende in Chile, to Qaddafi in Libya and beyond.

The difference now is that the fascist Trump regime has ripped the mask off of Pax Americana. No more platitudes about “democracy” or “human rights.” Just naked imperialism. Trump has said the quiet part out loud more than any other US president. It is about acquisition of resources at the behest of US capital interests.

What is truly absurd is to hear some in American media and certain politicians talking about Maduro being a cruel dictator. As if that is a justification for the Trump regime’s illegal assault on Venezuela and the abduction of him and his wife.

If international law were truly applied, then every single US president would be facing charges in the Hague, along with most members of the US congress, every Israeli prime minister, the entire Saudi royal family, Putin and most European and Western leaders long before Maduro. But international law has been shredded. It is nothing but a farce.

The American Empire, although in decline, is led by oligarchs, war profiteers and scoundrels. Its support and aid of the genocide in Gaza sealed the coffin on whatever was left of its democracy and kicked out any moral leg it may have once hobbled on. Now with an unhinged, mentally unstable, narcissistic, rapist at the helm, nothing is off the table.

If any non-American believes this latest aggression will stop in Caracas, they are delusional.

Kenn Orfanos, January 2026