GUEST APPEARANCE: Thinking of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the eve of Jan. 19, 2026 |
It is hard to believe, but the cruelty of the Trump regime escalates hour by hour.
Barely into the new year, the regime has violated international law by launching an attack on a sovereign nation and kidnapping its president and his wife. It is immaterial as to whether President Maduro is guilty of any of the charges the Trump regime claimed as justification for abducting him; what crimes Maduro is alleged to have committed constituted no national threat. In fact, Trump’s actions were utterly duplicitous. How quickly the claims that Maduro was the king of fentanyl disappeared, that the cartels he controlled turned out to be largely fictitious, and that oil (and strategic minerals and gold) became the reason for Maduro’s abduction.
Not only did Trump not inform any member of Congress or the Senate, but he let heads of oil companies know that regime change was in the works and to prepare for returning — or in the case of Chevron expanding — their operations in Venezuela. Perhaps we are inured by such violence, as abductions happen daily on our own streets by inexperienced versions of Special Operations’ Delta Force. But Dr. Martin Luther King exposed and warned of the dangers accepting violence, injustice, and lawlessness.
Trump, giddy with the cinematic rush of shock and awe, and having little notion of what would come next (keeping Maduro’s government in place in fact preserves everything he claimed he was opposed to), has moved on to threatening Cuba, Columbia, and Mexico, as well as agitating for seizing Greenland. Trump, it should be noted, railed against Venezuela as early as 2019, explicitly citing the need to seize its oil reserves — the........