Removal of Maduro reinforces anti-Left wave in Latin America

It has been disappointing but not entirely surprising to see the widespread hysteria in Europe in support of the illegitimate Maduro gangster regime in Venezuela, and the new round of anxiety about a possible US military seizure of Greenland. The pedantic fuss-budgetry about the legality of the American action in Venezuela is nonsense. Former President Maduro and his wife were authentically indicted in New York during the Biden administration as drug traffickers intimately involved in illegally bringing into the United States large quantities of lethal narcotics. President Trump is correct in his conclusion that this traffic caused the death of thousands of Americans every year and amounted to an act of war against the United States and a serious threat to the legitimate interests and national security of the United States. As president and commander-in-chief, he has the duty and the right to protect the national interest and to enforce the laws of the country.

The only remaining shadow of doubt on the probity of his conduct was the general recognition that leaders of the governments of sovereign countries should not be apprehended and removed by other countries, but it is notorious than Maduro stole the last two elections, has illegally transformed the legislature into an impotent talking shop, packed the Supreme Court, suppressed and intimidated a free media, and repressed the entire country. He has for some time not been recognised as legitimate leader of Venezuela and therefore does not benefit from the presumption of immunity to overthrow and removal by another country against which he has committed acts of war.

The same people that would be shrieking with outrage if the United States purported to take over directly the government Venezuela are instead wringing their hands in concern at the uncertainty of how anything useful will be achieved by Maduro’s vice president, who has been installed as the ostensible president. It is obvious that the United States possesses the ability to intimidate the Venezuelan government. It could at any moment impose an absolute sea and air blockade of the country and could intervene anywhere it wishes within Venezuela at any time with unanswerable force. In these circumstances, there will be little of Maduro’s defiance of the United States.

It was announced on Tuesday that Venezuela would assign to the USA 30 to 50 million barrels of oil. This is just the beginning of the renovation of the Venezuelan oil industry including the tripling of its production, to make up for the 25 years of neglect that the industry has suffered since it was largely seized from the United States. It also opens the likelihood that Venezuela will substantially replace Russia as a source of oil for Western Europe to the great profit of the Venezuelan people and to emancipate the European NATO countries from the absurdity and hypocrisy of their beseeching American assistance in defeating the Russians in Ukraine while inadvertently financing the Russian war effort through their purchases of oil from Russia.

The departure of Maduro reinforces the Democratic wave in Latin America opposing the Left. President Javier Milei in Argentina is enjoying great success in his radical disassembly of the inert and perpetually almost bankrupt Peronist socialist society of the last 75 years. The Communists and other extreme leftists have been decisively rejected in Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru (where the former president’s popularity fell to two per cent), El Salvador and most recently Honduras.

There is no question of a military investment of Greenland, but the US will not tolerate the encirclement of that island by the Chinese and Russian navies, and the inaccessibility to the United States of its strategic resources. Denmark, which has a population equal to the city of Montreal, has no ability to defend the NATO interest there.

The American military have developed the talent to make precise surgical intrusions anywhere in the world at no cost to themselves. There were no American combat deaths in Caracas and no casualties in the successful destruction of the Iranian nuclear military programme. This is the American response to the terrorist and narco-terrorist provocations of America’s enemies. Trump has already warned the presidents of Colombia and Cuba, and has made it clear that he has no philosophical objection to using the US armed forces in direct attacks upon the savage gangs that effectively govern northern Mexico, even after he has shut the border, following the illegal entry of as many as 15 million people, nearly a fifth of whom have now been deported.

His intervention against anti-Christian guerrillas in Nigeria on Christmas Day was an interesting portent and it is high time that the Christian world responded to the oppression and terror widely inflicted upon Christian minorities. And more interesting is his warning that he would attack Iran if it massacres its own people. Disorder in that country is now almost completely out of control, and it would be easy for the US to destroy the barracks of the military police that are all that is now propping up the palsied and evil government of the Islamic Republic. The era of easy and almost risk-free harassment of the United States is over, and Europe should rejoice in that.