A Solution For The Maduros

Just write a check...

One of the first things I thought of when I heard Trump had kidnapped Maduro and his wife, was that they should plead “no contest,” demand a speedy trial (within 70 days in the federal system), buy a pardon from Trump and go home to their panic room in Venezuela.

This isn’t about fentanyl or cocaine, a fact that’s easily confirmed by checking with Statista, the BBC or your friendly local Ai app. Only a small amount of cocaine that enters the U.S. comes through Venezuela. Same for fentanyl, although even less of that seems to be channeled through Venezuelans.

Even with that, after months of Trump blubbering on about fentanyl and cocaine, or “Narco-terrorism,” the Administration finally gave up and said it was all about oil. But apparently the country’s oil infrastructure is a mess, and it’s questionable whether many or most of the big oil companies would want to get involved in said mess, particularly in a country with a government that is somewhere beyond being in transition.

What oil company would sink millions or maybe even billions into a project with no guarantee of security for their investment? These people may be greedy as hell, but they’re not stupid. That said, consider the current situation.

Not only does Trump have no exit strategy, it appears his entry strategy is still bouncing around in his head, aided in no small part by all that “thin blood” coursing through his system against his doctor’s advice.

Now our fearless leader and national mastermind will have to set up a whole new government in a hostile environment.

Oh, this will be fun to watch. Not only isn’t Venezuela over the rainbow. Hell, they haven’t even seen one in years. You’ve gotta feel sorry for those poor people, with their economy in the toilet, a dictator running things and now this. An even bigger mess after switching out one dictator for another who is in absentia?

It would appear that Donald J. Trump, is making all this stuff up as he moves along, his addled brain doing the best it can to protect his deepest secret, that he hasn’t a clue as to what he’s doing. About anything. Except holding onto power. For that, it appears, he is willing to do almost anything, including invading a sovereign nation posing no threat to the United States. But that would be a war crime. So would sending out the military to kill civilians on the suspicion of being drug runners or “Narco-traffickers, whatever that is. Still wondering who made it up. It’s a good term though, with a real “Miami Vice” feel to it. Visualize Crockett and Tubbs out on the high seas, speeding after the bad guys in a giant overpowered cigarette boat, with Trump on the two-way, issuing orders. And that great Miami Vice theme music in the background. Perfect.

There’s an old catchphrase in Hollywood that I’ve always loved. “The image” it goes, “is more important than reality.” Sometimes it holds true. Apparently it’s the underpinning for everything the Trump Administration does, also known as, “The Apprentice Goes to Washington.”

Is it possible that DJT invaded Venezuela, simply because he wanted to look like a stronger strong man, more like his personal hero, Vladimir Putin? Might Trump simply have awakened in the middle of the night after an evening of too much action-adventure television and said, “Alert the Chiefs! We’re going with option C on that list they gave me!”

And so the United States invaded a sovereign country? Could it be that simple, that Trump is mimicking Putin in Ukraine?

If so, Donald might want to pay more attention to his intelligence people with regard to Putin’s “FSB” (former KGB) being at loggerheads with Russian military commanders.

I don’t know to what degree it’s happening, but Trump should be able to find out. The CIA probably knows and would be willing to help if Donald would only listen.

Based upon recent appearances, he may not have the mental or physical ability to do any kind of an analysis, much less something coming from the CIA, even while the mainstream American media continues to normalize his condition, covering everything the White House does as though it’s related to some bizarre kind of non-existent credibility as opposed to facing the horrible fact that the country is being run by someone who is clinically unstable.

Not to worry though. Stephen Miller, will tell him what to do.