The Utter Absurdity of Trump's Military Raid of Venezuela
Trump thinks you are an idiot…
I took a well-needed break over Christmas to get over the insanity of 2025, as I imagine most of you did too. I mean, it’s not like, oh, I don’t know, a certain South African billionaire with ties to Epstein would publicly spread indecent images of children across the web with his moronic AI, or the anti-war US President would violently kidnap an elected leader of a sovereign country while I was away. Only imbeciles would openly paint their hands so vividly red. No, it was a sound plan; I could rest easy as nothing awful would happen while I was away. What’s that? That is precisely what happened? Okay… Well, let’s deal with the pedophilic mechahitler AI later, my god, we need to ease into 2026! So, let’s start off with the abduction of President Maduro, because this is possibly the most stupid, embarrassing, and brain-dead thing Trump has ever done.
So, let’s quickly get caught up. On the 3rd of January, US forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife. They are both now standing trial in New York for charges of drug trafficking to the US. Despite these charges relating to cocaine trafficking, many in the Trump cabinet have said this abduction would help curb the fentanyl crisis, and they used the fentanyl crisis to justify the military action. Likewise, Trump has justified this military action by saying that Venezuela “stole” oil from the US, something which is not reflected in the charges against Maduro or his wife. But, after the abduction, Trump has claimed the US will “run” Venezuela, and get US companies to take over Venezuela’s nationalised oil industry.
Let me be clear here. Not only does this abduction break a truly vast amount of international laws, but the logic behind it is also so broken that it makes it seem like Trump and all his cronies have advanced dementia or have a major fentanyl problem themselves.
Drugs
Let’s start with drugs. Quite simply, where are they? Venezuela does not produce fentanyl at all. It does produce coca, the plant used to make cocaine, but in vanishingly small quantities. In fact, a 2024 report by the US government on the origin of US cocaine didn’t even mention Venezuela. There simply isn’t enough supply for a state-organised drug ring. In fact, the vast majority of US cocaine, well over 90% by some estimates, comes from Colombia, not Venezuela.
Now, yes, some of Colobia’s cocaine does flow through Venezuela, but experts have pointed out that only a tiny fraction of Colobian cocaine goes through Venezuela, and the vast majority of this is shipped to Europe, not the US. In short, Venezuela has very little to do with trafficking cocaine to the US. In fact, the vast majority of US-bound cocaine comes via the Pacific route, on the other side of South America to Venezuela. What’s more, it is believed that gangs operate Venezuela’s cocaine shipments, and there has been no evidence yet brought forward to tie Maduro to these cocaine logistics.
But let’s also not forget that, while cocaine demand is still relatively high in the US, it is still significantly lower than it was in the 80s and 90s. In fact, cocaine is now the 8th most deadly drug in the US, with fentanyl, heroin and many prescribed drugs causing far more deaths per year. So, cocaine isn’t causing enough damage to the US to warrant gargantuan US military action, even against a proven target, let alone a made-up one.
The drug narrative is demonstrably false, no matter how you spin it.
Drug Criminals
Moreover, if this is all about state-level drug trafficking, how come Trump pardoned and freed former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had been convicted in the U.S. of helping smuggle more than 400 tons of cocaine into the US? He actually did use his state power to corruptly enrich himself through illegal drug trafficking to the US. This wasn’t something he did ages ago, either; Trump freed him on December 1st, 2025, at the same time he was accusing Maduro of drug trafficking.
This either shows total moral inconsistency and disregard for the proper application of the law, or wild incompetence. Either way, a disqualifying mess for the President of the most powerful nation on Earth.
