After weeks of increased tensions, social media threats, and blown-up alleged drug traffickers in the Atlantic Ocean, American forces successfully carried out an assault on Venezuela and captured dictator Nicolas Maduro.

Let’s make one thing clear: Maduro is almost single-handedly responsible for causing the unimaginable suffering of his own people and the destruction of a once-prosperous nation under the blood-soaked banner of socialism. The fact that he is out of power is undeniably a good thing for both the Venezuelan people and the broader fight of good against evil.

US IS ‘GOING TO RUN’ VENEZUELA ‘UNTIL A PROPER TRANSITION CAN TAKE PLACE’: TRUMP

But, especially as President Donald Trump hints at regime change, two things can be true at once. It is undoubtedly good that Maduro has been captured, and we are allowed to ask serious questions about how this was achieved in the context of the checks and balances that are supposed to protect the American civil system from abuse.

This particular war-like assault on Venezuela was justified as a non-war by the twisting of rhetoric.........

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