Maduro was delivered up by insiders.

 MILITARY STOOD DOWN

WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NOW?

It is becoming clear that the former Vice President, now President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez collaborated with the Trump administration to arrange for the abduction of Maduro and his wife. Rodriguez and her brother, Jorge, president of the National assembly, are politically powerful. As this becomes common knowledge, there is a high chance that opposition to them may become very strong, In fact there are reports of gunfire and explosions near the president palace in the last day.

Yesterdays outrage was voiced by much of the world and an interesting speech by Jeffrey Sacks at the U.N. security council made a clear portrait of the U.S. relations in central America and around the world since 1947. He stated that the U.S. has engaged in 70 documented regime change operations between 1947 and 1989 and all of them left the countries in question and their citizens in a far worse place, often for decades.

It seems the debate in the U.S., expressed by John Bolton, is that the Trump administration did not go far enough and needed to depose all of the government in Venezuela. This would have required extensive military action and occupation, possibly for years. Is this outrageous action by Trump now considered too moderate by neocon insiders?

It seems this country often talks about democracy, but when another country chooses leaders or political systems not approved it is then necessary to overturn those results. While the last election in Venezuela has had questionable results, as had many elections in the U.S., Romania, Moldova and a long list of countries, earlier elections were the will the people. 

As for the dire state of the Venezuelan economy, it has been under sanctions and economic warfare for years, With a normal economy, they may have been able to pay the awards for money owed to former owners of assets. No one defends the political system that they chose, but it is their right to make those choices and when the external and internal subversion increase then it seems they always end up in becoming more authoritarian and seek outside allies. Then they are also labeled a national security threat, because they sell their sanctioned resources to someone else. 

In this case they have even been accused of being a base for Iran's supposed terrorist activities in the western hemisphere, an absurd accusation. What terrorist activities in the western hemisphere?

Maduro is also indicted for having a machine gun in his possession, a absurd charge for a President of any country, not subject to any U.S. law. I guess they assume everyone in the world is subject to U.S. law. 

It can be assumed that this endeavor is just in its beginning, not a done deal, and can the U.S. really impose its will without many thousands of troops to enforce that will?,  or will Venezuela now fade into the background as other bigger fish, like Iran, come onto the menu for regime change operations?

  

Naked Resource grab will not make America great.

 U.S. ADOPTS EUROPEAN COLONIALISIM

NOT HOW TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

I suspect many are praising the overthrow of Venezuela's government and the anticipated benefit of now having control of the worlds largest oil reserves. We are now going to be subjected to the narrative of how we have saved the Venezuelans from themselves and how we are going to rebuild the country for their benefit. We heard the same logic when we took over the oil in Iraq, and the Iraqi's, after over 20 years, are still not benefiting from their oil revenues. It is just a fancy picture of the naked aggression of empires of old, from the Romans to the the British Empire and now the United States. While it may be a short term feeling of Euphoria, it will hasten the rejection and repulsion of America in most of the world.

It seems this was an orchestrated overthrow with the cooperation of many of the insiders in Venezuela, a result of decades of NGO and CIA infiltration. The reality is that the socialism embraced by the Chavez and Maduro regimes is always destined to fail, it is usually best to let it fail of its own weight, rather than the approach that has culminated this weekend. In fact, we are seeing this failure right here at home and in Western Europe, it is decay from within.  Corrupt, immoral and exposed very transparently.

America became a great nation from the adherence to our constitution, the great opportunity for all to prosper and the greatest manufacturing country in the world, coupled with a currency that was as good as gold. None of those attributes apply anymore and we are reduced to the desperation of naked power and subversion to maintain the illusion of greatness. The United States even with its failures and flaws was the "Light upon the hill", the envy of the world.  It seems American's are the last to see the dismal reality of America viewed by most of the world.

So now that oil resources are captured to maintain the U.S. and western Europe, the next target will likely be Iran, the other great oil resource not under western control.  Oil also STOLEN from the west after their 1979 revolution. 

While it seems the hoped for access to Russian resources is not going exactly as planned, they have not entirely given up. The Venezuela regime change operation should make it clear that there is no negotiation that will ever be productive, it is submission or else. This applies to Russia, China, Africa and anywhere that is not under the control of the great power structure.

We should expect that much of the world will increase their efforts to flush out western NGO's and intelligence operatives, it could become much more dangerous for innocent westerners in much of the world. We will also see an acceleration in the flight from dollar linked oil and the flight from the dollar reserve currency. Much of this, along with military power, is the anchor of that world power. It cannot be maintained with exploding debt and a dismal manufacturing base.

Some time ago, I speculated that Trump would soon need to make his policies clear, he has, it is the same as the long line of leaders before him, war, intimidation and naked power, rather than mutual cooperation. Presidents come and Presidents go, but the post WW2 foreign policy has only become more immoral and more aggressive. I suspect that is signifying the last dying gasps of the American experiment.