Fash Watch 5

It’s been awhile. The advantage is that we can concentrate on a few things rahter than the day-to-day sewage. The big story is Trump’s failed war with Iran. To explain that we have to look back at his intervention in Venezuela in January. The US bombed mostly military targets, for about 2.5 hours— cover for an infiltration mission which kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro Moros and his wife. Now, Maduro’s 2024 election is widely viewed as fraudulent: the opposistion candidate Edmundo González Urrutia had evidence that he won the election, and Biden recognized him as president-elect. The opposition leader María Corina Machado Parisca had been in talks with the Trump administration. However, Trump ignored both of these, instead negotiating with the Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez Gómez. Trump was blatant about wanting to seize Venezuela’s oil, and that the major and perhaps only change since the intervention: the US is buying Venezuelan oil and ending sanctions. Trump left the chavistas…