As IF Times

Nicolas Maduro has been removed literally from his home in Venezuela by US special forces in a precise military operation and placed in custody in a New York remand center. Very recently, Maduro publicly dared the Americans to come get him. I guess technically, Trump was invited.  Fast forward a few months, and he’s perp walked into a cell with P. Diddy in New York.

As you’d expect, the event has brought out strong opinions on both the legality and the morality of his removal.

As in all cases, there are 3 sides to any story; the opposing sides and the actual truth, which will often overlap with the opposing views. The views of most politicians can generally be ignored since their utterances are partisan and dependant on whom is funding their existence. As is well known, they are very adept on using both sides of their mouths to strongly condemn or support whatever is most determined by the polls.  Now they are boxed into supporting a dictator who had thousands of his citizens murdered during protests.

To cite such an example, we show the utterance of a Chris Murphy, the Democrat representative from Connecticut who in 2019 issued the following tweet:

Of course now, in the aftermath of the actual removal of this “dictator”, the political opposition and media mob is in an uproar over the unilateral actions of President Trump. Much of the outrage concerns the notion that the US is once again interfering with the internal politics of a nation and imposing their imperial will. Is it really a resident’s problem if they know that their neighbor is beating their spouse? Post mortems of all of the ‘regime changes’ allegedly orchestrated by the US in the past 50 years reveals that it’s never as simple as American imperialism. There are always other corporate interests at play and America is conveniently tagged as the villain.  To be sure, a nation’s business is its own business and it certainly isn’t America’s place to oversee all nations.  That was what the United Nations was created for.  As we know, the UN is essentially a drinking club for despotic nations and about as effective in maintaining world peace as paper condoms are for birth control.  This point was brought home recently by the appointment of Somalia as head of the UN security council.  Somalia; whose only expertise is in running daycares; installed as head of world security. This is Monty Python stuff.

In the case of Maduro, the number of factors which resulted in excising him from leadership are many and more likely to be revealed as time goes on. It’s unlikely that it was only about oil, or the Monroe doctrine or about an oppressive regime, or about drug shipments and money flows to terrorist groups, or about alliances with Iran and Russia, or about sending criminals to the US, or about blunting the influence of communism among neighboring stares or about secretive money flows to domestic politicians or about rigged elections. None of these by themselves are bad reasons.  In concert however, they are compelling reasons. Up until just now, politicians on both sides of the aisle railed against Maduro’s influence as noted above.

When you also observe the increasingly strong protests against the oppressive regime in Iran by their own citizens, it becomes clear that many nations are tired of being oppressed by their autocratic rulers…many of which are kept in power by cancelling elections in the case of the Ukraine and oddly, the UK, or by annulling elections altogether as did happen in Venezuela and recently in Romania. Thus, those protesting the removal of an ‘elected’ leader in Maduro are both misinformed or disingenuous.

At the end of it all, it really doesn’t matter what paid protestors and ideological NPC’s think; it’s more important to see what Venezuelans think and right now, there is an air of celebration and relief that the nation will finally emerge from their socialist hell.

Ironically, even as Venezuela appears to be emerging from this tyrannical state, the siren song of control and oppression is rising among nations once thought of as bastions of freedom, notably the commonwealth nations and much of western Europe. No wonder they’re protesting the US action.  If they could only delete the anti-state actors domestically, that would be a real victory.