Kidnapping Maduro shows not America's power but its banditry

What we all know, but would like to believe otherwise, Trump has shown the world once more with his operation against Venezuela, in which he kidnapped its elected leader: there is no such thing as international law, as international justice. There was the law of the strong. And that strong one can name his own law as he likes for all people.

The act of entering an independent country like a pirate and seizing its leader, together with his wife, from their bedroom and carrying him off is plainly a terrorist act and a violation of all international rules. Yet he announced this operation with the words "Maduro has been arrested and will serve the penalty for his crimes."

He can call terrorists those who defend their own country with all their honor, the national forces who did not even attempt to make a civilian's nose bleed along that path, while at the same time continuing to treat as a legitimate ally Israel, which massacres tens of thousands of people, women and children included, in the most ruthless and savage ways and carries out genocide. Who can say what? Whoever has an objection must be ready to bear the terrorist label too.

THE WORLD DOES NOT TURN WITHOUT LIES.

We actually know that the international community is subject to the law of this strong one, but everyone still has a hope; people love their lie, even if it is a lie. The world does not turn without lies. It is very painful that beneath all the struggles waged in the field of legitimacy by clinging to this lie there lies this definite knowledge that is being ignored.

That the President of Venezuela was taken from inside his palace in such a savage manner, and that his handcuffed image was openly displayed as though being taken to trial, is an insult to the governments of the whole world. America is telling all countries that none of them has any right of sovereignty of its own, that it can intervene inside any country it wishes, make it a part of its own law, and put it on trial.

Now, this is the message it is trying to give to all sovereign countries in the face of this image, but is it a fate that everyone should accept this message?

THIS OPERATION DOES NOT SHOW THE POWER OF THE U.S.

Of course not; and even if this is the message the U.S. gave with this image, this image never proves the strength of the U.S. What made this image possible is not the strength of the U.S., but that the country it operated in, Venezuela, had been occupied by its internal traitors even before the U.S. and its CIA. What made it possible for Maduro to be kidnapped in handcuffs in this way is the security weakness inside. And this weakness is not the weakness of the Venezuelan people; it is, first of all, the armed forces within the country and the collaborator oppositionists who have long since opened their hands to the bribes that a U.S. occupation would provide them.

The U.S. may have wanted to give this message to the whole world through Maduro, but let no one suppose that it can apply this scenario wherever and however it likes. Just as the rout it suffered in Afghanistan more recently showed how powerless it can be before a people's spirit of resistance, so it also showed that, before a people's love of freedom, its unity and solidarity, and especially its will to rely on God, it is doomed to disgrace. In Iraq too, despite all the destruction and massacres it caused, it had to flee with the same rout. Despite all the support it gave to Zionist Israel, in the face of a force of resistance utterly disproportionate in numbers and in weapons power, the people of Gaza and Hamas, what it has suffered is nothing but a disgraceful rout. What it has been able to prove there too is only that it is murderous, genocidal, merciless, and lawless. Everyone already knew this much, but the whole world has learned that, before a community of believers, the weapons power it hides behind amounts to nothing.

WHY, HOW DID THE U.S. FAIL IN TÜRKİYE ON JULY 15?

Was the very same operation as the one against Maduro not tried in Türkiye on July 15 through its collaborators there? But Türkiye, by resisting this operation with its people and with the unsold national elements of the Turkish Armed Forces, showed with an epic stance that the U.S. is not able to carry out whatever operation it wants everywhere.

So where are the Venezuelan people in this event? Unfortunately, in this event, rather than the success of the U.S., the fact that Maduro had not built a spirit of national defense with his own people is a far more decisive result. Trump is not interested in Maduro's dictatorship, nor his democratic character, nor even his drug trade. Even the Afghanistan example has shown enough: the country that was the world's most important source of drugs during the U.S. occupation was brought down to zero within just a few months after the occupation ended. The greatest patron and trafficker of drugs in the world is the CIA. There is no one who does not know this. In Venezuela this was not the problem either; the only problem is that Venezuela has the world's largest oil resources.

Had it been under someone else's rule, the U.S., which would not have hesitated to do this operation again, would have done it under the pretext of "bringing democracy" or "saving the country from a dictator." Yet Trump does not even hide that he did it for oil, and he tells it in glowing terms too.

MADURO DID NOT SHARE THE COUNTRY'S WEALTH WITH HIS PEOPLE, HE DID NOT WIN HIS PEOPLE

What again makes Maduro the real cause of the U.S.'s apparent operational victory here is that he had no policy whatsoever of sharing the country's so vast and rich resources with his people and of somehow winning his people. One must also consider that this situation, which is the general problem of many dictators, is not their own choice. When there is a real democracy, this situation would trouble the U.S. and Europe more. Because its being so keeps them more ready to pull the plug when they wish.

This is what they could not do in Türkiye. Having in the country an administration that truly represents its people and strives to maximize resources to put them at its people's service also reduces the likelihood of intervention in the country.

THE PROBLEM OF AN OPPOSITION THAT OPENS THE DOOR FROM INSIDE TO THE OCCUPIER

But an opposition that opens the door from inside to the occupier, exactly as in Venezuela, is also always our most fundamental problem. Was it not the British-loving Unionists who opened the door from inside to the British who brought down the Ottomans? On July 15 too we saw the opposition watching the operation to take Erdoğan with great expectation. The opposition leader, who complained to the British prime minister about his own country and who laments having left himself alone against the President of Türkiye, now claims that Erdoğan has left Maduro, whom he calls his "brother," alone. Is it out of sorrow for Maduro?

AS IF HE DOES NOT KNOW THAT, EVEN IF Erdoğan has good relations with Trump, he thinks the exact opposite of him on many matters? Even after meeting with Trump on many matters, he has never held back from voicing views completely opposed to Trump's stance and views. Here is the Gaza issue, the U.S. presence in Syria and the support for the SDF...

Erdoğan has a mastery, which has become his trademark, in when, where and in what way to say his words.

With his own mind, Özgür Özel is trying not to get Erdoğan to take a stance for the country, in the country's interest, in such an event, but on the contrary to provoke him into a position that would drag both himself and the country into error. Yet Erdoğan is a leader who has command of his word and a master of saying the fitting word at the right place and time. It cannot of course be thought that he approves of this attitude of the U.S., but he has to weigh every word he says on behalf of the country he governs.

But if Özgür Özel truly regards this banditry of the U.S. as so bad, no one is stopping him; let him condemn Trump and the U.S. in the most radical manner. Let him say a bandit cannot become ruler of the world, or say that this act of the U.S. is not its strength but only a banditry that will in the end lead it too to ruin. By God, we too would congratulate him, would not mind that it is Özgür Özel, and would join him all the way.