If President Trump’s surgical operation removing Maduro from power is “shocking,” as Roshan Jainath claims (POST, January 7- 12), then how was there some sort of merit in tolerating a criminal oppressing the people of Venezuela and financing drug and human trafficking with stolen oil?
There was no outcry when, in 2021, the Biden regime offered $25 million for information leading to the removal of Venezuela’s despot, whose presidency was denounced by 50 countries as “illegitimate.”
Since 2021, Maduro has been a fugitive of American justice. He headed the feared de Los Soles narco-terror organisation, which controlled Venezuela. What indefinite, unilateral right did he have to use Venezuela’s oil to finance terrorism and oppression while, with impunity, shipping narcotics to the US?
Of course, the talking heads of the Left evade that question. Instead, they claim Trump is really only seeking to control Venezuela’s vast oil reserves to aggrandize America’s wealth. But blinded by Trump derangement, his assurance that Venezuela will enjoy the maximum benefit of its oil in a liberated, transformed country is a script that does not match the narrative of the Left.
As the master strategist, Trump knows that leverage over Venezuela’s oil enables him to curb the imperialist path of Venezuela’s biggest oil consumer, China. He knows he can ramp up pressure on Cuba, the six-decade-long socialist dystopia in the Caribbean, propped up by Maduro. He knows he can hobble the financing of terrorism – all in pursuit of his aim of “peace, liberty and justice for Venezuela” while subduing the menace of narcotics.
Trump’s actions are premised on his assertion of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine by which the US declared the Western hemisphere as its domain within which to safeguard stability and security and to act against hostile threats.
Whilst Jainath’s speculation of Trump executing a Maduro-type strike on South Africa may make sensational headlines, Trump has smarter ways of applying leverage to remove the ANC proxies of the world’s chief promoter of terrorism, Iran’s mullah regime.
Besides, Trump is not out to “steal” South Africa’s resources. Rather, he sees the need to deter China from exploiting them, recognizing that China’s Road and Belt strategy aims to assert control over shipping routes of which the Cape is a key to Indian Ocean traffic.
Trump derangement and studied ignorance of Trump’s policy of peace through strength, sadly, is what informs articles like Jainath’s, because Maduro’s capture should inspire hope.
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