The Venezuela Obscenity
At this Saturday morning’s rambling, incoherent press conference announcing the invasion and take over of Venezuela, President Trump made a Freudian slip when, as he was about to hand the mic over to his brain-dead secretary of war, he said the operation related to, among other things, “an attack on sovereignty.”
Right on the money, Mr. President.
Venezuela has long been an odd fixation for Trump and his gang, going back to his first term, when he allowed the ransacking of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington by neocon-backed far-right Venezuelan emigres with ties to the odious Juan Guaidó, a good friend of the current secretary of state, Marco Rubio. Rubio and his fellow neocons have been calling for regime change in Caracas for years. The embassy seizure was made even more appalling by the spectacle of US State Department Diplomatic Security, US Secret Service, and DC Metropolitan police officers aiding and abetting in the crime by refusing to step in and prevent serial assaults committed by the pro-Guaidó emigres on unarmed American antiwar protesters (a similar incident occurred in May 2017 when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s armed thugs pummeled protesters in Washington DC’s Sheridan Circle in broad daylight).
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