And another new set of incoming refugees, this time from Venezuela:
US forces have captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife during Washington’s strikes on the nation’s capital, US President Donald Trump has announced, adding that the two have been flown out of the South American country. Venezuelan authorities have long accused the US of attempting to topple the government in Caracas.
In a statement on Saturday on Truth Social, Trump confirmed that the US had “successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela.”
“Its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with US Law Enforcement,” he wrote, adding that additional details would be provided at a news conference in his Florida residence in Mar-a-Lago at 11am. Unnamed US officials told CBS that the operation had been carried out by Delta Force, the US Army’s top special mission unit.
I’m sure we can expect the European Union and all the usual suspects to denounce this attack on the head of a sovereign state, right? Vladimir Putin has to be thinking that he could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he’d simply captured Zelensky and his wife back in 2022.
Anyhow, the long list of failed US interventions and occupations provides no reason that this invasion of Venezuela is going to turn out well for Americans anytime soon. Although I suppose Venezuelan-run child care centers can’t be any worse than the Somali-run ones. Because you know that an influx of Venezuelan immigrants is the only reliable consequence of this action.