Another war. It’s not enough that it’s now been claimed almost seven hundred thousand are dead in Gaza, nearly half of them children. It’s not enough the Sudan bleeds or the war continues between Ukraine and Russia. It’s not enough the US, has threatened another round of attacks on Iran or that it continues to bomb Africa in open silence. It’s not enough that the world reels in such misery, death, carnage, that now the United States has attacked Venezuela.
Though, it’s developing and details are unknown at the time of writing, footage is available of attack helicopters firing at Venezuelan bases, incoming missiles from warships blasting specific and random targets in Caracas. The confusion and fear from the innocent people on the ground, desperate. Where can they flee? What have they done? Is it not enough they must suffer beneath the repression of their own government, only to be attacked by a foreign one?
The recent mass killings in Sydney are known as a criminal act, terrorism, conducted by a father and son. Their motivation a deranged and entitled self righteous action of revenge or to kill Jews or anyone who they felt they had a right to murder. As two individuals, we understand it to be repulsive and dangerous. Whether they had intended targets in mind, predetermined by themselves, no due process, just reckless disregard for all and any. This is a known act of terror. Disgusting.
When a government, specifically the powerful and mighty kill countless more, with indiscriminate and reckless mayhem. It’s legal and contextualised. Even when it’s declared an illegal war, and the US has apparently had many of them. It’s termed an intervention, a police action, or whatever an administration decides to use in it’s bloody verbiage. Who will arrest them? Nixon was ‘a crook’ not because his administration ordered the secret mass bombings of Cambodia and Laos, killing hundreds of thousands, even up to this day people die from lost bombs waiting to detonate. Political intrigue, a scandal is what made him a pariah leader.
Trump, is following in the tradition of past presidents, the hope and change Obama, the hair sniffer Biden, baby Bush, Bubba Clinton, daddy Bush, the actor guy Reagan and so on. It’s presidential to wage war. To fire missiles into the desert, to impose the Monroe doctrine on the Americas and to bully much of the world. It’s a Western set of values as understood by the seven billion people outside of the West. That does not make those outside of the West dignified nations. Those governments and many inside of them, are playing a long game. Patience. Retribution, revenge.
Many may have forgotten the strikes on Yemen last year, killing people in a meeting. Trump claimed they were terrorists, sitting in the open as is customary for the many innocent to do. Evidence suggests it was innocent people. The US government decides guilt and innocence. Otherwise, it’s brushed of as collateral. In the years since World War Two, millions have died under that term, collateral. Reckless or at the very least manslaughter. But, it’s often intentional. Just that the killers are indifferent.
In the West those who don’t go and fight, who are not expected to fly the drones or fill the foxholes have a stomach for war. The young and able bodied, are unwilling. Even with conscription, the barrel is not as full as it once was with capable and driven individuals. For the most part, the West is very much out of shape, in debt and dependent on the State for all things. The rugged individual of the past is long gone, the hearty peasant expected to charge with a bayonet is no longer here to be imperial fodder. The world will grow impatient. It slowly is. It will stop fearing, and will push back. Then what? Australia does not have that many NDIS support workers to defend it’s shores, will DEI save the day in Europe or is faith in the American god of war be enough to fight the world?
It is most likely a limited attack on Venezuela, a bloody nose of sorts. It’s unlikely to lead to a full blown invasion. Venezuela won’t be like Panama ‘89, or even the disaster into victory of Grenada ‘83. Is it worth it? Killing that many innocent people for the sake of domestic politics or to send a message to foreign governments? Is the common person, those who vote and believe in this religion of government, are you not better than to tolerate and enable it all. The world barely survived the bloody twentieth century. Have we lost all recollections? Or, is it that century just never ended?
It turns out, the US has captured the president of Venezuela and his wife, the Maduro’s are in Uncle Sam’s custody. They are to be flown to the US, and short of a Die Hard 2 scenario, will be treated as Panama’s Manuel Noriega. El Presidento Trump will announce more at 11am his time in a press conference. God save the King, or whatever it is that statists say in time of interventions, war, or police actions.
