In pondering the news of the day, a couple of questions keep popping up in light of the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores and statements that the pair will be tried under U.S. law for crimes allegedly committed in their country.
In March 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued ARREST WARRANTS for Bladimir Putin for the war crime of unlawful deportation and transfer of children during the Ruso-Ukrainian War. More simply stated, that’s child trafficking.
Last August, Putin met with our very own Mango Mussolini in ALASKA but was not arrested or detained.
Of course, the U.S. does not recognize the ICC but so what? Putin is a murderer and he was on U.S. soil and the Trump administration did nothing.
Yet, the leader of a country with which we are not at war and which has not invaded any other sovereign nation is TO BE TRIED in the Southern District of New York on charges of narco-terrorism conspiracy and cocaine importation conspiracy.
Not only is he to be tried in the U.S., but Trump actually boasted following Maduro’s capture that the U.S. is “GOING TO RUN” Venezuela.
That wouldn’t be because Venezuela has the world’s largest deposits of oil reserves, would it? Sounds strangely familiar to bogus claims of weapons of mass destruction in another oil-rich country by another Repugnantcan administration.
At this rate, Trump may be asked to forfeit his FIFA Peace Award.
There’s no questioning the fact that Maduro is a thug, a despot, a tyrant. But it seems a tad strange that he could be singled out for his crimes even though there was no indictment and he was captured only after the U.S. invaded Venezuela while Putin is allowed to come and go with impunity in this country and indeed, is treated like royalty.
Just sayin’…
Louisiana Voice 
Not to mention Mango Moron’s December pardon of the former president of Honduras who was convicted in the Southern District of New York of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the US and sentenced to 45 years in prison. Whatever it is, it ain’t about the drugs.
You are absolutely correct! It’s all about the oil. Nothing else. Just the oil.
I thought Trump hated the US playing world cop. But I guess that was before the Supreme Court and 75 million Americans made him their God and Savior. So it’s no wonder Trump thinks he really is one and can do as he damn well pleases.
Its’ a case of do what I say, not what I do-even if I say and do contradictory things. The very definition of a sociopathic megalomaniac. There are some-full disclosure-someone of the Ukrainian American community- who speculate that the imperious one availed his campaign not only of the hundreds of millions of dollars of the wizard of DOGE-but also technological legerdemain to skew the election results. DOGE was a failure. The wizard possibly overdosed on Ketamine acknowledged he should not have abandoned his enterprises- Tesla in particular experiencing buyer’s remorse. So too, perhaps Da Wizard should not have intervened in the election. Trump may be experiencing on camera drowsiness from a senility medication. The notoriously germ phobic, would- be, Nobel Peace Prize aspirant ,claims his hand bruise comes from an overdose of hand shaking. Many of Trump’s cabinet are living-not in Maduro safe houses-but on American military bases. The bunch, picked for loyalty to the Trump brand, had to be unfit to qualify. Mary Trump is right-“The most dangerous man in the world.” The well placed Ukrainian-American also speculates that Trump brand emissaries Witkoff and Kushner are worshipping at the transactional altar with the Russian megalomaniac. Real estate and mineral deals? Thus accounting for Trump’s seemingly irrational affinity for Putin. “Do what I say-not what I do. Even if what I say and do are simultaneous and contradictory..
JacDog
To put the cherry on top, Johnson, Letlow, Scalise, and Cassidy were cited as supporting this Trump invasion. Have not seen anything from Kennedy, but won’t be surprised at where he stands. In spite of my knowing they are going to support Trump in whatever he does, I am always appalled when they come right out and state openly their support of this crazy president. Who are these people and where did they come from? I just hope people remember all of these illegal and corrupt actions and those who supported them when the midterm elections come.