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When the thief is from within, no security measure holds

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The U.S. kidnapping operation against Venezuela is in fact no different from what the U.S. has been doing since the years when U.S. hegemony has been in question. Looking at the indifference shown by the international order toward the crime of genocide that Zionist, murderous Israel has been committing against Gaza since October 7, an awareness has formed all over the world that a very different order than we thought actually prevails in the world. Yes, in appearance the Palestinian lands are under occupation, and Israel, with its most concentrated armies at this moment, with the unlimited support of the U.S., is bearing down on Gaza.

These attacks give the impression that Gaza is the land in the worst condition in the world at this moment, but the situation is exactly the opposite. The Gazan people are the only free people who have been able to raise their voice and resist against a banditry order valid all over the world, and who have therefore not lost their sense of freedom.

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Especially with its boastful conduct toward Venezuela, confessing its theft while displaying its bravery like a criminal who owns up to his crime, it has no way out left. If it wishes, stopping Israel is a matter of moments. If the U.S. truly has any respect for the law it is using against Maduro today, then Netanyahu, whose crimes against humanity are out in the open, should immediately be seized by the U.S. itself and made to pay for his crimes. All the charges it has brought against Maduro are crimes that the U.S. itself has committed, far more of them and on a very global scale. If anyone does not know that the U.S. is the greatest patron of the drug trade in the world, let them look at Afghanistan. While Afghanistan was the richest drug supply source in the whole world under U.S. occupation and control, from 2021, according to data from the UN's own sources, drug production has fallen to about 5 percent, and I suppose that amount is the medicinal part of the opium.

THE RICO ACT IS THE LAW UNDER WHICH THE LIKES OF THE UZANS ARE TRIED, MAKING THE WHOLE WORLD THE DOMAIN OF U.S. DOMESTIC LAW

Meanwhile, there is no validity whatsoever in its kidnapping Maduro from his own country and bringing him to the U.S. to be tried. The law on which it relied while producing a theatrical indictment against him, the RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), is one of the most powerful tools in the U.S. legal system used against international crimes committed against the country. It was enacted in 1970 and was originally designed to bring down the Mafia; but today it is used across a very wide spectrum, from street gangs to white-collar corporate fraud. In short, the RICO law gives the state the possibility of linking individual crimes together and treating them as a single "organization" or "enterprise." Thus the leaders of a group can be held responsible for these crimes even if they did not commit them personally.

The case between a U.S. company, Motorola Credit Corp., and the famous Uzan family from Türkiye is one of the best-known examples of civil RICO cases. The case was based on an allegation of large-scale fraud involving billions of dollars, with the Uzans' company TELSİM at its center, and of course it ended against the Uzans. The U.S., which has to some extent made crimes committed against its own citizens a part of its domestic law, is today attempting to spread its scope over the entire globe with a Trumpist doctrine.

WHEN THE IMPERIALIST SMELLS OIL

That Trump cites what he did to Maduro as a precedent for Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, even Denmark and Canada, and calls them to obedience too, shows that this is no longer simply a policy peculiar to Trump's person. It is the banditry, the horse-thievery, that exists at the core of the savage West, now coming out into the open without even needing to be concealed. As Devlet Bahçeli said, the imperialist really has caught the smell of oil. Venezuela's only problem is that it has oil. Just like Iraq. Had it not had oil, Saddam Hussein could have gone on ruling Iraq to this day, as long as God gave him life.

DOLLARIZATION IS THE INSTRUMENT OF U.S. SOVEREIGNTY

The U.S. looks at the whole world as a part of its own global order, and in fact the whole world has accepted this through the dollarization order. The use of the dollar as a currency by everyone enables the U.S. to keep money movements under its control. The U.S. can impose sanctions by depriving any country it wishes of the circulation of its money. This capability enables the U.S. to make all countries a part of its domestic law whenever it wants.

Making them a part of its domestic law means subjecting them to itself without honor. Otherwise everyone sees that inside the U.S. too there is no longer the slightest expectation of justice from the law. Perhaps all this noise is being made in order to be able to suspend the Epstein case as well. If it is not for that, even the fact that this case today cannot touch the powerful names of the U.S., Trump, is enough to show that not a trace of law is left.

What prevails in the U.S. now is not the law of the strong but the law of wild cowboys, of gun-toting horse thieves. So does this law point to the power of the U.S.? We said this before as well. Kidnapping the president of a country from his home is not a demonstration of power. Even an extremely weak person with a gun, when he gets his chance and dares to pull the trigger against a very strong person, can end his life. This shows not the strength of the gunman, only that at that moment he was able to risk something. What he risks is, in the end, being tried, being eliminated, or being thrown in prison.

WITHOUT THE ONE WHO OPENED THE DOOR FROM INSIDE, DELTA FORCE WOULD HAVE STRUGGLED TO SUCCEED

The U.S.'s kidnapping of Maduro is clearly an abuse of power and, sooner or later, a crime deserving trial in terms of universal law. In the end the success of this operation is not from the U.S.'s strength; it is now becoming clearer that it is from the betrayal Maduro suffered from the inside. Otherwise those legendized, inept forces of the U.S. have never had a single successful operation so far. They have botched things many times, and suffered routs, in Somalia, in Iraq, in Afghanistan. Without the one who opened the door from inside, the U.S. kidnapping Maduro would not have been possible. Just as British victory would never have been possible if there had not been those in the Ottoman state who opened the door to the British from inside. Then, after the Sultan is packaged up by the officers in Istanbul and handed over to the British, and put on the occupying British ship and carried off, victory and heroism are written for those left behind.

Still, even if in the U.S. case there is the possibility of a rout, what makes it possible to commit this crime so easily is the strength of the criminal. But as the criminal file of powerful criminals swells, their end draws near too.

That all the Latin American countries, and now even a EU and NATO country, Denmark, are exposed to the open threat of this unrestrainable appetite for occupation and annexation has set in motion a new and strong discontent against the U.S. in the world. What comes after this is something for the U.S. to think about.