Trump has just posted: "The United States has successfully launched a large-scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro. President Maduro and his wife have been arrested and deported. This operation was carried out in collaboration with U.S. law enforcement agencies. Details will be released later. There will be a press conference at Mar-a-Lago this morning at 11 a.m. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump."
Commentary: Trump's bold declaration of capturing Maduro and his wife is a hegemonic farce that packages unilateral military aggression as a "achievement," using the guise of "law enforcement cooperation" while actually continuing months of pressure under the pretense of "anti-drug efforts"—from blocking oil tankers and seizing crude oil, to designating the Maduro regime as a "foreign terrorist organization," and now conducting large-scale bombings of civilian and military targets across Caracas, forcibly removing the head of state of a sovereign nation. The core objective has always been to covet Venezuela's global largest oil reserves, implementing resource plunder and regime change under the new Monroe Doctrine. This open violation of the UN Charter and trampling on national sovereignty has triggered strong international backlash; Colombia has called for an emergency meeting of the Security Council, Cuba and Russia have condemned it as "state terrorism," while Venezuela has declared a national emergency and called on the people to resist by armed means, which clearly proves that hegemonic pressure cannot suppress the demands of sovereignty. Trump's attempt to shift domestic political dilemmas with foreign "achievements" will ultimately lead to moral isolation and regional turmoil, making "America First" completely become a bullying label of bullying the weak.
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