There’s been plenty of commentary about the attack on the Venezuelan presidential palace and the abduction of Maduro and his wife in the Leftist Legacy Media as well as on better informed new media so repeating it seems superfluous.

The key points worth mentioning are that it most likely involved CIA pay-offs to Venezuelan officials and military people, that it was driven by Marco Rubio for whom Venezuela sending oil to Cuba was intolerable, and that the Pentagon doesn’t like China’s involvement in any part of Latin America. “Managing” Venezuela now will probably include telling China to go. Venezuelan oil, despite being abundant, is mainly heavy oil which is difficult to refine, but the country also has natural gas, bauxite, nickel, rare earths and a lot of gold and iron ore.

There must have been a lot of internal discussion in Trump’s cabinet about another regime change operation with many expressing “unhappiness” about doing anything more than has happened.

We’re skeptical about the “narco terroism” claims although the speedboats that were sunk on Rubio and Hegseth orders in international waters probably were drug transporters en route to rendez-vous with other vessels. You don’t use speedboats for commercial fishing.

It is clearly a breach of international law, but we all know that it depends on who’s breaching it as to whether that’s good or bad.