After this brief summary, I’m just going to post links to articles that pretty much states (in a much more in-depth fashion) how I really feel about what happened the other week plus this insane overture about taking Greenland by other means (by military force) if the offer to buy it is turned down (it should be no secret anyway since this blog in 2025 is peppered with me calling out those that are now running the U.S., a criminal enterprise/regime). Make no mistake, Maduro is a corrupt dictator himself and remained in power in Venezuela via a “questionable election outcome” (as is the case with many autocratic dictatorships). But the U.S. itself is also now being run by corrupt individuals who are operating in that same realm.
As an American who is of Japanese ancestry and had family members who served in the U.S. military (including grand uncles who were part of those segregated units like the 442nd), it disgusts me how this country has been doing this slow descent into fascism (aided by the rich and powerful who have bought out many of our elected officials over multiple terms, and now accelerated under this corrupted U.S. government). Under their renewed definitions, folks like myself who speak negatively of them and the orange clown (aka this regime in the U.S.), is considered a domestic terrorist (whereas they and the people who support them, are the REAL domestic enemies).
This also does not excuse the way the U.S. conducted this operation (without the necessary approval from Congress; simply re-labeling it as a “law enforcement” operation to get around international law is no excuse for these now war criminals that have further tanked the already marred reputation of the U.S.) Furthermore, the felon-in-chief pardoned the former president of Hondura’s (who had been indicted for his own role in being one of those corrupt leaders that caused a lot of drugs to be trafficked into the U.S. from that country). This is how the pillaging occurs.
Additionally, this presidential power to pardon individuals in this manner has been abused in such unethical ways (where actual convicted criminals have been allowed to walk away completely free from what were legitimate prosecutions and convictions). We basically live in this timeline now where it pays to be a rich/powerful criminal (because what laws did exist, are being trampled on to give only the crooks a pass/get out of jail free card).
As for this military operation (which ended up resulting in the deaths of Venezuelan civilians), the disconnect with this pardon of the former Honduran president highlights how this is mainly about Venezuela’s oil industry (looting the assets of another country). This was simply one criminal leader going in and having that other criminal leader kidnapped (in order to take control of it for its oil reserves) where the conduct of this operation proved a number of things. That the U.S. military would be weaponized and having those who planned and took part in the operations following these illegal orders (against the UCMJ; Uniform Code of Military Justice which is no surprise since this unqualified hack of a defense secretary purged the top level JAG’s [Judge Advocate General’s Corp] at the Pentagon last year), highlights an issue which the rest of the world will need to deal with (criminal thugs weaponizing the U.S. military apparatus).
Furthermore, reports are coming out that the U.S. military may have committed another war crime when they used an aircraft disguised as a civilian one. That is unconscionable but also unsurprising when this DUI hire of a defense secretary has managed to purge an untold number of ranking officers that did not pass the loyalty test. For the uninitiated, this should spook the hell out of them as to just how bad this can all get for the rest of the world when it comes to reordering it in terms of the axis of power (the autocratic regimes who would have major control of each region).
Remember, the U.S. has long maintained these military bases on foreign soil (many on prime properties) under the guise of being the international peacekeeper/promoter of democracy (even though parts of this agenda had its flaws). However, under the control of a corrupt/criminal organization, this global military presence will be weaponized for this regimes desire to return to rank imperialism (this criminal regime even mentioned the Monroe Doctrine). And no, the rule of law and U.S. Constitution isn’t going to come save the day. Unfortunately, the U.S. Constitution itself is also very much now a meaningless document (trampled on by these criminals running the U.S. government and by the 6 corrupt “conservative” Supreme Court justices).
The Republican Party also owns this while certain parts of the Democratic Party has proven itself not fully up to the task of actually defending democracy (they wasted 4 years and had a worthless attorney general that was more concerned with not wanting to look political versus upholding the rule of law equally without fear or favor). Hell, even the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell (who was appointed by the orange turd in 2018) has more fighting spirit when he pushed back against the DOJ’s criminal indictment subpoena.
And all of this idiotic rhetoric by these criminal kakistocratic thugs in the U.S. about “taking Greenland” the hard way, really should be getting the other NATO allies up in arms (Europe had enough of a warning over the past year to really coming up with a strong front against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine). It’s great that Denmark and several European NATO allies sent military reinforcements to Greenland ahead of the talks with the U.S. delegation (which included our moron of a Vice President). I keep hearing about how U.S. military action against NATO allies in Greenland would cause NATO to fall apart/end. How about this be looked as a reformation of that alliance utilizing the same frameworks/treaties but without those countries that have fallen far off democracy (which would remove Hungary and the U.S.)
As for Greenland, that is the sovereign territory of Denmark and should be respected as such. I completely disagree with how this criminal regime in the U.S. is trying to annex it illegally while weaponizing the U.S. military (those who are involved in even planning or considering such an option, will be guilty of committing war crimes). Denmark has already ordered its military troops to fire back IF the U.S. shoots first. This isn’t some joke; it’s actually happening because we have demented idiots running the U.S. now and there is no way I can cheer any of that. As far as I’m concerned, anyone in the U.S. military who takes part in whatever operation that is being planned, deserves what they will be getting if they are fired upon (because they are taking part in an illegal operation against what has been our traditional allies).
And we have long had this complicit media that are caving into become the equivalent of state media (I basically have stopped trusting the media in the U.S. for years now and have had to look at various other sources whenever I do catch up on the news). This is also just another move that cements the U.S. (heading into its 250th year), as a rogue nation that no longer has any standing as a promoter of democracy; one that will take a long time to clean up this mess if that is even possible. And yes, this was only a summary (because if I didn’t include the following article links that delved more in-depth into what has happened in 2026, this posting would’ve been one hell of a longer expletive filled rant).
Various articles about some of this insanity in the past two weeks of this new year:
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/04/trump-maduro-venezuela-war-media/
https://www.justsecurity.org/127981/international-law-venezuela-maduro/
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-venezuela-attack-maduro-capture-illegal-20260104.html
https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-maga-post-greenland-donald-trump-us-politics-venezuela/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5689722-trump-greenland-ownership-rejected/
