Geopolitics/Breaking/Trump:
We will run a transitional government in Venezuela, even if it refuses; We promise her an all-out invasion!
With a remarkable amount of political impudence, Donald Trump announced that the United States intends to rule Venezuela, justifying this by saying that American control, as he says, will lead to a significant increase in oil production and guarantee fixed and huge revenues for American oil companies. He was not satisfied with this description, but also accompanied it with an explicit threat of a comprehensive invasion if Venezuela did not comply with this desire.
With this statement, the characterization of what Trump did moves from being an “American invasion of Venezuela” to being a full-fledged occupation. When one country invades another, for whatever reason - here the reason is declared without ambiguity; It is Venezuelan oil. The minimum moral claim required letting the people manage their own affairs and choose their new leadership in accordance with the constitution, especially when the presidential position became vacant.
According to this naked colonial logic, what remains of formal harmony requires Trump to go to the end and declare Venezuela the fifty-first state of the United States. This is more appropriate, in my opinion. Only then can the world acknowledge that this bandit has explicitly returned to the time of pure conquest, to the political barbarism that his Cowboy ancestors practiced among the Native Americans, and thus restores the spirit of the nineteenth centuries with contemporary insolence, where the strong ate the weak...