Why did Trump commit the “sin of a lifetime” by invading Venezuela?

What are the possible scenarios? And for these reasons, we say that Caracas is neither Saigon nor Kabul.

The American president’s decision to invade Venezuela, destroy its capital Caracas with missiles, and kidnap its president Nicolás Maduro and his wife is not the action of a leader of a country that claims to be the leader of the free world. Rather, it is the action of mafia gang leaders, outlaws, and drug traffickers. He is the one who should stand in the dock before the war criminals’ court, not President Maduro.

Today, Venezuela is invaded; tomorrow, Iran; the day after tomorrow, Canada and Greenland. The goal is to seize the wealth of these oil-rich countries and the precious minerals beneath their lands and to impose tribute on their governments and peoples. Unfortunately, President Trump is seeking the Nobel Peace Prize by falsely claiming that he has stopped eight wars, and he has found supporters, particularly from Israel, who are nominating him.

Trump, who adopts the principle of “America First” and we will make it last, is drooling over Venezuela’s oil, which has the largest reserves in the world (303 billion barrels), to pay off the US national debt, which exceeds 43 trillion dollars. Trump believed that Maduro would succumb to his extortionate threats and offer him the wealth of his country’s oil and its revenues on a silver platter, similar to the three Arab countries that provided him with 5 trillion dollars during a visit lasting only three days.

President Maduro of Venezuela did not flee his country, surrender, or succumb to intimidation from American aircraft carriers. He remained among his people, who belong to the working class, and he is not ashamed to boast that he worked as a bus driver and reached power through the ballot boxes in free and fair elections, succeeding a legendary president named Hugo Chavez, may he rest in peace.

The United States has always suffered a crushing and humiliating defeat when invading a country, such as in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. This explains why its national debt is considered the largest in history and why its annual budget deficit has reached more than a trillion dollars. We do not rule out the possibility of repeating the same defeat scenario in Venezuela, where the government has declared a general mobilisation and a major state of emergency in preparation for resisting the American invasion and occupation.

The era of “banana republics” in South America has come to an end, and its people will not accept yielding to American extortion threats. We do not rule out the emergence of new leaders to lead its legitimate resistance, such as Che Guevara, Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Lula da Silva. This “birth-giving” continent, where brave fighters bravely confronted the genocide war in Gaza, and where most of its leaders severed their countries’ relations with the Israeli occupation state, cannot abandon Venezuela and cannot be defeated.

Trump shot himself in the foot by committing the disaster of aggression against Venezuela, kidnapping its president and his wife, and putting his country on the brink of catastrophic, possibly existential, dangers, the most prominent of which are disintegration and perhaps an open-ended war of attrition. South America is unlike Vietnam, Afghanistan, Russia, and China, which are thousands of miles away. Rather, it is America’s backyard, only hundreds of miles from American soil, reachable by mortars and short-range missiles, with China, North Korea, and possibly Spain ready to support.

Maduro, the President of Venezuela, differs from Manuel Noriega, the American puppet leader of Panama who turned against the U.S., because no one from the South American continent (estimated at 440 million people) sympathised with Noriega. Maduro is supported by a vibrant populace and more than 28 million honourable souls from the southern continent. The global chaos that Trump sowed in Venezuela and the Middle East will rebound with destruction for him and his country. Perhaps it is the curse of Gaza and the blood of the martyrs in Afghanistan and Venezuela… And Iraq and Yemen… And the days in between

Why did Trump commit the “sin of a lifetime” by invading Venezuela?