via https://inpolitics.ro/intrebarea-zilei-a-fost-victoria-zdrobitoare-a-lui-magyar-o-cacealma-orchestrata-de-orban_1860090229.html (translated from Romanian)

With the dust barely settled on the ballot boxes and a voter turnout of 79.5%, the highest in Hungary’s post-communist history, the historic victory of Péter Magyar and the Tisza party seems, at first glance, like an earthquake: the end of 16 years of absolute dominance by Viktor Orbán and Fidesz. But in some analyst circles and on Hungarian social media, an alternative theory is quickly gaining ground: was it all a brilliant bluff by Orbán? A pseudo-adversary created overnight from the very center, to lose his apparent grip on power, just as his popularity has been in irreversible decline for almost a quarter of a century?

Let’s take it methodically.

As the streets of Budapest celebrate what appears to be the “fall of the dictator,” a disturbing question is being raised in the political consulting labs: did we witness a genuine revolution yesterday or the most sophisticated exercise in political transformism in modern European history?

The theory is deeply rooted in Orbán’s political style—a master of control, captured institutions, and orchestrated narratives. Since his return to power in 2010 (and, indirectly, since his first government in 1998-2002), Fidesz has built a political system in which real opposition has been systematically weakened, marginalized, or co-opted. Critics argue that, as early as 2023-2024, the regime’s internal polls showed a steady erosion of support: endemic corruption, economic stagnation, international isolation and repeated scandals (including the one that triggered Magyar’s break with FIDESZ) made a fifth consecutive victory impossible under “normal” conditions.

Hence the question: is Péter Magyar’s entry on the scene – coincidence or construction?

Péter Magyar, 45, a former Fidesz member since 2002, is a former high-ranking official in regime-controlled state institutions and the ex-husband of a former Minister of Justice and European Affairs in the Orbán government. The son of communist lawyers and the son-in-law and nephew of former Hungarian President Ferenc Mádl, he grew up in a privileged environment, with an early interest in politics – as a child he had a poster of Viktor Orbán (then an anti-communist leader) on his wall.

With this background, Magyar suddenly appears in February 2024 as a “renegade”. He launches an anti-corruption petition, – following the child sexual abuse scandal that led to the resignation of President Katalin Novak – joins a party called Tisza with remnants of the legendary communist structure SZT (Hungarian officers undercover in civilian institutions) among its founders, and, in just two years, transforms an obscure party into a force with 53% of the vote and a two-thirds supermajority. For supporters of the bluff theory, the chronology is too perfect: an insider who knows all the mechanisms of the system, who criticizes exactly those aspects that Orbán could sacrifice (the corruption of second-rate oligarchs, not the inner circle), and who promises a European “reset” without completely dismantling the power structures (justice, media, economy).

“Why would a man so close to the regime let a mass movement build without being stopped in its tracks?”, ask various Hungarian observers. Orbán survived the 2022-2023 crisis precisely through total control. If Magyar had been a real threat, he would have been destroyed like everyone else – through dossiers, controlled press or compromise.

Arguments in favor of the theory also include Orbán’s suspiciously quick “surrender” after about 60% of the votes counted, the absence of massive contestations of the results (although Fidesz claimed minor irregularities) and the fact that Tisza maintains a conservative center-right line on issues such as immigration and national sovereignty – exactly what an “Orbán 2.0” would allow in the future, in a different form. In fact, the Hungarian parliament is currently unique: two right-wing parties, TISZA and FIDESZ, one far-right party, Mi Hazánk (Our Fatherland), and zero leftists.

In a country where Viktor Orbán has demonstrated extraordinary tactical mastery over the past 16 years, the idea of ​​a “controlled opposition” is not exactly science fiction, but a strategic possibility. The Trojan Horse scenario, if you will.

Is Péter Magyar Orbán’s great invention for the survival of the system?hT

ee hypothesis that Péter Magyar — a former member of the hard core of Fidesz and former husband of the Minister of Justice — is, in fact, a clever safety valve created by the Orbán system itself, is starting to take shape in the form of an analysis of long-term survival. Sociological data from the past 2-3 years clearly indicated that Fidesz had reached a saturation point. The erosion of power, record inflation and international isolation have created an electorate “tired of Orbán”, but still afraid of the old left opposition (associated with the Gyurcsány era).

In this context, a character like Péter Magyar is the perfect solution: he speaks the same language, because he uses sovereignist rhetoric, conservative values ​​and national symbolism, he channels the anger, taking over the votes of those disappointed with Fidesz, who would otherwise have stayed home or voted for a radical opposition. And, very importantly, he maintains the system in the family: if power passes from Orbán to a former Fidesz cadre, the economic structures and the state oligarchy have a much better chance of surviving than, say, under a radical pro-European left-wing government.

How did a “traitor” manage to organize the largest protests in Hungarian history without being legally or administratively blocked in an almost completely captured state? The cynical answer could be: because he was left.f

If this hypothesis is true, Viktor Orbán did not lose everything yesterday, but gained time. A Magyar government could bring a reset of relations with the EU, funds will start flowing to Budapest again, as Brussels will want to reward “democracy”, whitewashing the image – Hungary gets rid of the “black sheep” label, while the deep structures (the Hungarian Deep State created by Fidesz) remain intact.

Orbán can now pose as a victim of external forces, preparing a messianic comeback in 4 years (he has already announced this), if the new government, formed by people without massive administrative experience, fails to manage the economic crises.éP

terr Magyar insists that he is Orbán’s number one enemy. However, in Budapest politics, reality often has several layers. If in the coming months we see that the big oligarchs close to Fidesz keep their contracts and that no major criminal investigation touches the extended “family” of the old regime, then yesterday’s victory will be confirmed as what more and more people suspect: a brilliant bluff to save the system, changing only the facade, exactly as happened in Romania, during the Revolution. (Bogdan Tiberiu Iacob)

Asking “who shot Charlie Kirk?”:

“…the FBI, which showed up at the scene astonishingly quickly and proceeded to take charge, may have had prior knowledge of what was about to take place.”

The first part of this assertion is incorrect, as everyone could see for themselves. By late September 2025 it was clear to anyone who closely followed the event and its aftermath, that the Tyler Robinson narrative was a hoax.

Multiple video evidence from various viewpoints unmistakably shows that Kirk was shot from at least four different directions simultaneously at close range, in two instances within a distance under two meters, from the top rear to the back of the head, the projectile exiting at the throat, and from below near his legs, entering at the left chest and exiting at the left shoulder behind the arm pit. These two projectiles were propelled by the rapid discharge of high pressure gas (theoretically at the speed of sound at the exit and very low temperature upon expansion). The projectiles were likely customized infra-red beam projectors with a sharp-edged ridge. The camera with zoom lens behind him had an infra-red sensor. Did you notice the various accomplices looking at their cell phones? They were monitoring the live camera image being sent, of the targeting beam pointing to his head. The video of Kirk being placed into the vehicle shows both the entry wound to the head and exit wound at the back of the shoulder. The still shot of Kirk’s distorted face is the result of the projectile passing through his brain while being bombarded with gas discharge at high speed from the rear and front.

Two guys just outside the inner perimeter used small gas pressure devices to shoot pellets, one from the front, identified as Rick Cutler (who was surrounded by three accomplices, the female to his right was viewing the phone camera screen), who likely triggered the other discharges. From Kirk’s right side, a man with white T-shirt and white visor cap was seen dealing with the resulting recoil from his device, which looked like a cell phone and probably also was equipped with a range finder to allow him to point it in the right direction. Another guy with white T-shirt and cap, facing the crowd while monitoring the display screen of his phone, gave the go-ahead signal immediately prior to the simultaneous discharges. Had the algorithms at X.Com boosted the incriminating videos instead of suppressing them, then publications like the Daily Mail, which specialized in sensationalism, would have amplified these revelations to the general public. Instead, not even the author of this piece seems to understand what actually happened.
A dozen suspicious characters were seen on video before and immediately after the public execution and certainly were involved in the operation. The modus operandi of this killing was obviously predicated upon any law enforcement not showing up at the murder scene to clear and investigate the site. Instead, as is evident from the video shot from a bystander immediately afterwards, the murder device behind Kirk was dismantled, and the electronics board (communications and sensors) subsequently taken from the camera and handed to another accomplice. Two guys in disguise, with firearms, were supervising the destruction of evidence and controlled the situation. This implies complicity by the FBI to allow the assassination team to their thing. The key operatives were whisked away in a Bombardier 300 jet within an hour, which then turned off its transponder in mid-flight and most certainly switched on a different code to coincide with that of an airplane destined to Los Angeles. Since all these aspects of the operation were allowed to occur, the logical deduction is simply that Netanyahu had coerced Trump to acquiesce in Kirk’s killing beforehand and order authorities to stand down.

In retrospect, it appears obvious that Trump had already made a firm commitment to attacking Iran again during the early summer of 2025, immediately after a ceasefire had been reached in the wake of the severe damage Israel had incurred by targeted bombing of its installations by Iran. In retrospect, it is not difficult to appreciate that in order to “finally finish the job” (Netanyahu’s desire to obliterate Iran, for nearly four decades), the following preparations were regarded as necessary before attempting to follow through:

• Curtail the supply of cruise missiles on behalf of Ukraine to defend from Russian attacks, so that they would be available to use against Iran instead;

• Get rid of Charlie Kirk because of his staunch opposition to attacks against Iran and his influence to sway the opinion of Christian Zionists;

• Secure the control over Tic-Tok social media, as well as key news and entertainment media outlets by Netanyahu’s friend Larry Ellison, so as to shape the propaganda narrative;

• Prepare to take control of alternative crude oil sources in Venezuela as a back-up to counteract the expected oil shortage due to Iran’s control of the Hormuz straits;

• Rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War, to manipulate and normalize the public mind-set of a stauch commitment to engage in a protracted war;

• Deliver and allow Israel to retrofit the F-35I Adir fighter jet with external fuel tanks in order to enable the attack Iran without the need to refuel on a round-trip attack mission, a crucial upgrade that did not occur until late last year.

Looking back in American history, this is now the fifth time when a US president was coerced into going to war on behalf of Zionist interests – and against American interests:

• Justice Louis Brandeis convinced a compromised Woodrow Wilson to take the United States to war in late March 1917, even though in his second inaugural speech at the beginning of the month he had reiterated a stance of neutrality; he had won re-election because he promised to keep the country out of the war but in early April, on Good Friday Congress had declared war against Germany at his request; his foolish action led to the Balfour Declaration a few months later and changed the course of history in Europe.

• Lyndon Johnson, who had coordinated the assassination of President Kennedy, apparently collaborated in an Israeli false flag attack on the USS Liberty ship in June 1967 in order to then attack Egypt on Israel’s behalf; the Israeli attack failed because the ship did not sink and was able to radio for help, so the planned attack on Egypt was called off.

• After having received a diplomatic green light from the US Ambassador, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990, before German unification took effect, and made a retreat contingent upon Israel also abandoning control over Jerusalem, which was generally consistent with the objective of GHW Bush; however he came under intense pressure by Zionists and eventually organized a coalition for a limited counter-attack in early 1991, under UN approval.

• In the wake of the false flag attack on September 11, 2001, George W Bush was bamboozled to go to war against Iraq, under the false pretense of needing to destroy purported weapons of mass destruction there, which became an elaborate and expensive crusade (“war against terror”) that began at the spring equinox in 20023, a few days after Purim, and allowed Israel to destabilize the entire Middle East region.

• As of a few weeks ago, we are experiencing a replay of some of the aforementioned aspects. Trump has betrayed the American cause he had promised to support. His behavior is even worse than that of the two worst presidents of the 20th century, Wilson and Johnson. He will likely be remembered for being the worst US president the country has ever had. As a consequence, it may be necessary to change the US Constitution to never allow something like this again.

by Claudiu Secara

At this point I would say that we are past the peak of Trump’s pro-Zionist power grab. The defeat in Iran is unmistakable. Venezuela is not up for grabs despite the very murky circumstances of the kidnapping of President Maduro. No one in Venezuela was arrested for collaborating with the US in that operation, which, I would say, indicates that what the former Colombian president asserted was/is true. Maduro became a liability for the Venezuelans themselves and they handled him over to the US.

Greenland is also circling the wagons, so to speak, with the Europeans firmly standing in defense of Denmark. No 51st state for Trump.

Internally, more chaos. The execution style crime perpetrated by ICE against Ms Good in Minneapolis and the following public lies by Kristi Noem and others are subject to congressional impeachment. The Zionist training of the paramilitary forces like ICE throughout the Western hemisphere might come to be seen as toxic. Even the British canceled their 2 billion ponds contract with Israeli Elbit Systems security, apparently as a victory for the Pro-Palestinian movement and the pro-Palestinian hunger strikers.

Even the top US banking executives rallied against Trump’s claim to have the power to set the interest rate for credit card balances as an overreach of the executive powers.

Never mind Trump’s claim of peace-making in Ukraine in 24 hours…

The country is skeptical of the story of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, as well as of the Zionists horrendous genocide in Gaza.

Mr. Trump has only one way to go from here and that is to go only down, down downhill. And then we’ll have the midterm elections.

He might be lucky if he is not referred to the International Criminal Court. And the Zionists are getting more and more desperate.

by Chris Hedges via https://www.unz.com/article/the-machinery-of-terror/

I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before. I saw them during the “Dirty War” in Argentina, where 30,000 men, women and children were “disappeared” by the military junta. Victims were held in secret prisons, savagely tortured and murdered. To this day, many families do not know the fate of their loved ones.

I saw them in El Salvador, when death squads were killing 800 people a month. I saw them in Guatemala under the dictatorship of José Efraín Ríos Montt. I saw them in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile and in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. I saw them in Iran under the rule of the ayatollahs where I was arrested and jailed twice and once deported in handcuffs. I saw them in Hafez al-Assad’s Syria. I saw them in Bosnia, where Muslims were herded into concentration camps, executed and buried in mass graves.

I know these goons. I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms. I have been beaten by them. I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries. I know what is coming.

Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships. It eliminates dissidents. It silences critics. It dismantles the law. It creates a society of timid and frightened collaborators, those who look away when people are snatched off streets or gunned down, those who inform to save themselves, those who retreat into their tiny rabbit holes, pulling down the blinds, desperately praying to be left in peace.

Terror works.

The iron doors have not yet shut. There are still protests. The media is still able to document state atrocities, including the Jan. 7 murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross. But the doors are closing fast. ICE has deported over 300,000 people and detained nearly 69,000 others — as well as been involved in 16 shootings, including four killings — since Trump began his campaign against immigrants.

ICE, our Americanized Gestapo, is being birthed.

Resistance must be collective. We must assert not only our individual rights, but economic, social and political rights — without them we are powerless. Resistance means organizing to disrupt the machinery of commerce and government. It means preventing arrests by patrolling neighborhoods to warn of impending ICE raids. It means protesting outside detention facilities. It means strikes. It means blocking streets and highways and occupying buildings. It means providing photographic evidence. It means sustained pressure on local politicians and police to refuse to cooperate with ICE. It means providing legal representation, food and financial assistance to families with members detained. It means a willingness to be arrested. It means a nationwide campaign to defy the state’s inhumanity.

If we fail, the dimming flames of our open society will be snuffed out.

Authoritarian states are constructed incrementally. No dictatorship advertises its plan to extinguish civil liberties. It pays lip service to liberty and justice as it dismantles the institutions and laws that make liberty and justice possible. Opponents of the regime, including those within the establishment, make sporadic attempts to resist. They throw up temporary roadblocks, but they are soon purged.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in “The Gulag Archipelago” notes that the consolidation of Soviet tyranny “was stretched out over many years because it was of primary importance that it be stealthy and unnoticed.” He called the process “a grandiose silent game of solitaire, whose rules were totally incomprehensible to its contemporaries, and whose outlines we can appreciate only now.”

“What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?” Solzhenitsyn asks. “Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”

Czesław Miłosz, in “The Captive Mind,” also documents the creep of tyranny, how it advances stealthily, until intellectuals are not only forced to repeat the regime’s self-adulating slogans but, as our leading universities did when they caved to false allegations of being bastions of antisemitism, embrace its absurdism.

Manufactured fear engenders self-doubt. It makes a population — often unconsciously — conform outwardly and inwardly. It conditions citizens to relate to those around them with suspicion and distrust. It destroys the solidarity vital to organizing, community and dissent.

The historian Robert Gellately, in his book “Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany,” argues that state terror in Nazi Germany was effective not because of omnipresent state surveillance, but because it fostered a “culture of denunciation.”

Rat out your neighbors and coworkers and survive. If you see something, say something.

The worse it gets, the more established institutions, desperate to survive, silence those who warn us.

“Before societies fall, just such a stratum of wise, thinking people emerges, people who are that and nothing more,” Solzhenitsyn writes of those who see what is coming. “And how they were laughed at! How they were mocked!”

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth, whose early warnings about the rise of fascism were largely dismissed, and who told fellow intellectuals to stop naively appealing to “the remains of a European conscience,” saw his books tossed into the bonfires in the spring of 1933 during the Nazi book burnings. So far, we have not burned books, but have banned nearly 23,000 titles in public schools since 2021.

The authoritarian state cannibalizes the institutions that foolishly aid and abet the witch hunts. It replaces them with pseudo-institutions populated with pseudo-legislators, pseudo-courts, pseudo-journalists, pseudo-intellectuals and pseudo-citizens. Columbia University is a shining example of this willful self-immolation. Nothing is as it is presented.

There are increasing numbers of violent kidnappings by masked ICE agents in unmarked cars on our city streets. People are ripped from their vehicles and beaten. They are arrested outside schools and day care centers. They are raided at work, thrown onto the floor, handcuffed, driven away in vans and shipped off to concentration camps in countries such as El Salvador. They are seized when they appear at court for a green card application or interview to finalize a visa.

Once detained, they disappear into the labyrinth of over 200 detention centers, where they are moved from one facility to the next to hide them from family, lawyers and the courts. Due process, once a constitutional right afforded to everyone in the United States, no longer exists.

“Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states,” Hannah Arendt writes in “The Origins of Totalitarianism.” “The clearer the proof of their inability to treat stateless people as legal persons and the greater the extension of arbitrary rule by police decree, the more difficult it is for states to resist the temptation to deprive all citizens of legal status and rule them with an omnipotent police.”
The FBI, in an example of how justice is perverted, refuses to cooperate with local law enforcement agencies in Minneapolis, blocking access to any evidence that would allow them to file criminal charges against Jonathan Ross.

Killing of unarmed citizens by the state is carried out with impunity.

ICE has more than doubled the size of its force since early 2025 — to 22,000 agents — hiring 12,000 new officers in four months from a pool of 220,000 applicants. It plans to spend $100 million over a one-year period to hire even more recruits, part of the $170 billion for border and interior enforcement, including $75 billion for ICE, to be spent over four years. Salaries for these new recruits, poorly trained and often haphazardly vetted, will range from $49,739 to $89,528 a year, along with a $50,000 signing bonus — split over three years — and up to $60,000 in student loan repayments.

ICE is building new detention centers nationwide in 23 towns and cities. It promises that once it is fully operational, it will go door-to-door as part of the largest deportation effort in American history.

ICE agents, intoxicated by the license to kick down doors while wearing body armor and firing automatic weapons at terrified women and children, are not warriors as they imagine, but thugs. They have few skills, other than weapons training, cruelty and brutality. They intend to remain employed by the state. The state intends to keep them employed.

None of this should surprise us. The repressive techniques used by ICE and our militarized police were perfected overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Occupied Palestine, and earlier in Vietnam. The ICE agent who murdered Good was a machinegunner in Iraq. A night raid in Chicago, with agents rappelling from a helicopter to storm an apartment complex filled with terrified families, does not look any different from a night raid in Fallujah.

Aimé Césaire, the Martinician playwright and politician, in “Discourse on Colonialism” writes that the savage tools of imperialism and colonialism eventually migrate back to the home country. It is known as imperial boomerang.

Césaire writes:

And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss.
People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind—it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.
During the interregnum between the last gasps of a democracy and the emergence of a dictatorship, the nation is gaslighted. It is told the rule of law is respected. It is told democratic rule is inviolate. These lies mollify those being frog-marched into their own enslavement.

“The majority sit quietly and dare to hope,” Solzhenitsyn writes. “Since you aren’t guilty, then how can they arrest you? It’s a mistake!”

Maybe, the fearful say, Trump and his minions are only being bombastic. Maybe they don’t mean it. Maybe they are incompetent. Maybe the courts will save us. Maybe the next elections will end this nightmare. Maybe there are limits to extremism. Maybe the worst is over.

These self-delusions prevent us from resisting while the gallows are being constructed in front of us.

Authoritarian states start by targeting the most vulnerable, those most easily demonized — the undocumented, students on college campuses who protest genocide, antifa, the so-called “radical left,” Muslims, poor people of color, intellectuals and liberals. They strike down one group after the next. They blow out, one by one, the long row of candles until we find ourselves in the dark, powerless and alone.

by Pepe Escobar via https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/01/05/barbaria-strikes-again/

Still, neo-Caligula won’t stop – mimicking his motormouth. The Empire of Chaos under the Donroe Doctrine is about strategic dominance, at all costs, over energy and trade corridors.

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the ‘new, wonderful good society’ which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean ‘more money, more ease, more security, more living flatly at the expense of the industrious’.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Raging Twenties started with a murder: Gen. Soleimani, Baghdad, January 3, 2020. Ordered by Trump 1.0.

The second part of the Raging Twenties starts with a bombing/kidnapping. Mini-Shock’n Awe on Caracas, Delta Force raid. January 3, 2026. Ordered by Trump 2.0.

 

Raging Donald Trump said he will run Venezuela.

This trashy neo-Caligula, self-proclaimed Emperor of Barbaria, in the end may not run anything, starting with his own motormouth.

The Venezuela op unrolled via a classic imperial playbook. Murderous sanctions for years blocking trade and capital movement, causing hyperinflation and an out-of-control humanitarian crisis. The target: to cause so much suffering to Venezuelans that a military coup would be inevitable.

The Venezuela kidnapping of a President in his bedroom deep into the night unrolled via a classic CIA playbook. They managed to bribe the head of Maduro’s security detail and his close circle, but not (italics mine) the Venezuelan military.

Maduro was protected only by Venezuelan forces, not Russians, as confirmed by independent Caracas sources. When a Russian command got to Maduro’s residence, at first they met resistance by some of Maduro’s own corrupt security.

When they were neutralized and the Russians got inside the residence, Maduro had already been extracted by the Delta Force, with key internal help. The chief of Maduro’s security detail was then apprehended – and duly executed.

The day after the kidnapping, Venezuelan soldiers revealed how Delta Force wanted to establish a beachhead at one of their units in Caracas as an operational base for a Bay of Pigs-style ground invasion. But in the words of a soldier, “We fought, we opened fire, and we forced the helicopter to leave without taking the military unit.”

The Venezuelan Defense Ministry then stated that most of Maduro’s security detail was actually killed during the operation, not specifying by whom. And Cuba announced the deaths of 32 of its fighters – certainly not among those in the compromised security detail.

The Chavista government remains in power – led by the formidable Delcy Rodriguez, constitutionally appointed as interim President. No Fifth Columnists inside the government have been unmasked so far.

An article on the propaganda rag Miami Herald, using as the single source a dodgy former vice-President of Colombia, Santos Calderon, and no evidence whatsoever from Venezuela, spread the fiction that Delcy Rodriguez made a pact with Trump 2.0 to hand Maduro over.

It took less than 48 hours for the bombastic Caligula White House narrative to start falling apart. Investigative journalist Diego Sequera, on the ground in Venezuela, has already largely debunked the tsunami of nonsense drowning mainstream and social media.

Additionally, forget about 28 million Venezuelans cheering a loudmouth neo-Caligula gringo as “liberator”. He’s now forced to issue personal threats against Delcy Rodriguez and – what else is new – promise that the Empire of Chaos may bomb Venezuela again.

 

The Donroe Doctrine, decoded

 

Let’s cut to the chase. Apart from the notorious “largest oil reserves on the planet”, essential for an Empire in financial trouble to build collateral, there are several main rasons for the Venezuela hit.

1. Bellum Judaica. Apart from developing close relations with BRICS members Russia, China and Iran, Caracas unmistakably sided with Palestine and called out the Zionist plague. So in one swoop, we have not only the practical application of the “corollary to the Monroe Doctrine”, explicit in the new National Security Strategy, but most of all the “Donroe Doctrine” deployed as the “Zionroe Doctrine” by a Zionist court jester, who happens to be the neo-Caligula.

What better way to teach yet another lesson to the whole Global South on the limitless Pax Judaica – actually Bellum Judaica, because they are now on non-stop Forever War mode against all “amalek”: and everybody not genuflecting in their altar may be branded “amalek”. It’s no wonder Delcy Rodriguez went straight to the point, qualifying in her first speech the “Zionist tinge” of neo-Caligula’s kidnapping operation.

2. Heavy metal thunder. Only less than 24 hours after the bombing/mini-Shock’n Awe/kidnapping, and for a mere $8 billion, Washington wrapped up a massive smelter deal to process no less than $1 trillion of Venezuelan precious metals.

The deal was financed by J.P.Morgan – which happens to be in big trouble because of the their massive physical silver short position. The beauty is that Venezuela happens to be smack in the middle of the Arco Minero (“The Mineral Arc”) which concentrates untold trillions in still unmined gold and silver.

3. The petrodollar angle. The heart of the matter is not Venezuela’s humongous – untapped – oil reserves per se, complete with neo-Caligula salivation. The key is petrodollar-denominated oil. Printing endless – intrinsically worthless – green toilet paper to finance the industrial-military complex implies the US dollar as the global reserve currency, petrodollar included.

The Empire of Plunder simply could not allow Venezuela’s oil to be sold in yuan, ruble, rupee or a basket of currencies, or in the near future, a BRICS-sanctioned mechanism backed by oil and gold. Red alert was already on as Venezuela integrated into China’s CIPS cross-border payment system.

Then, on the oil front, there’s the matter of stealing Venezuelan oil from Citgo – the Hudson-based subsidiary of PDVSA – to profit Zionist billionaire Paul Singer and his hedge fund, Elliot Investment Management. A “proud Zionist” and AIPAC board member, Robert Pincus, was court-appointed to facilitate the scam, derived from Citgo owing over $20 billion to creditors: another toxic effect of years of sanctions.

Additionally, and contrary to neo-Caligula’s fiction that “this is our oil”, Venezuelan historian Miguel Tinker Salas conclusively proved how the country nationalized the oil industry in 1976: “It was controlled by Venezuelans. It was run by Venezuelans”. Foreign companies, including ExxonMobil’s “most profitable subsidiary” were fully compensated, “much above and beyond what they had already extracted”.

 

Then there’s the crucial Chinese angle.

 

There has been a tsunami of splendidly stupid speculation that China did not do anything to “save” Venezuela. China is way too sophisticated to engage in brawls. Beijing will fight the Empire of Chaos in court.

Silently, with no fanfarre, Beijing has made it very clear that any American attack on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects sealed by contract around the Global South – 150 participating nations at least – will be met with international arbitration in every court from Caracas to Jakarta. Translation – in the only way Western barbarians understand: the legal cost of American regime change operations will become prohibitive.

A test may be coming pretty soon. Assuming neo-Caligula “runs” Venezuela – and that’s a major “if” – all that Beijing needs is to successfully enforce a single contract claim against a Trump-run Venezuela. Let’s see whether neo-Caligula would have the balls to stop Venezuelan oil being sold to China. Good luck on imposing regime change after that.

 

My Might is Right

 

Still, neo-Caligula won’t stop – mimicking his motormouth. The Empire of Chaos under the Donroe Doctrine is about strategic dominance, at all costs, over energy and trade corridors. There’s no way neo-Caligula can be forced to cease and desist about Venezuela’s oil. Because that will be the supreme strategic precedent of the new paradigm: My Might is Right rules the new international disorder based on no rules whatsoever.

So whatever happens next in Venezuela directly concerns the whole Global South/Global Majority.

At least now things are crystal clear. International law is for suckers. We search and destroy, bomb, kidnap, whatever – because we can. There are no limits for the Barbaria/ Bellum Judaica combo.

 

What’s next?

 

Iran. The war criminal in Tel Aviv has already issued the Bellum Judaica orders. Even if the only “war” Trump 2.0 and his Secretary of Forever Wars can conduct amounts to a bunch of Special Forces trying to get a “beachhead” and indiscriminately hurling loads of stand-off weapons. Washington is woefully incapable of launching a large-scale combined arms operation anywhere.

Greenland. Not for “defense reasons”, as neo-Caligula boasted, but for plunder of natural resources in imperial lebensraum mode and War for the Arctic reasons. Trump has given puny Denmark just enough time to digest it: “We will worry about Greenland in two months.”

Then there’s Cuba – the pet project of gusano Marco Rubio, who in his shady past was quite close to narco-terrorist elites.

Several extra nodes of the Global South – Colombia, Mexico. And if they don’t “behave”, several nodes of BRICS. It’s now Totalen Krieg. And the Empire of Chaos/Bellum Judaica combo “will be watching it like a TV show”. The Global South better get their act together – fast.

via MoA

There are a number of indicators which lets one predict that the Trump administration, during the next election, will use government forces to severely attack and disrupt all opposition to it.

Trump has send the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into the cities to harass and arrest alleged illegal immigrants. Due cause is disregarded and the methods used by the agents are brutal.

Trump has also sent National Guard troops into cities where, he claimed, riots were taking place. There were no riots or ‘terrorist incidents’ but the presence of troops is used to create a militarized atmosphere.

A new National Security Presidential Memorandum, NSPM-7 issued by Trump has defined new classes of internal enemies:

With the mainstream media distracted by the made-for-TV drama of James Comey’s indictment, Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as indicators of radical left violence.
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In NSPM-7, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” President Trump directs the Justice Department, the FBI, and other national security agencies and departments to fight his version of political violence in America, retooling a network of Joint Terrorism Task Forces to focus on “leftist” political violence in America. This vast counterterrorism army, made up of federal, state, and local agents would, as Trump aide Stephen Miller said, form “the central hub of that effort.”
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The Trump administration isn’t only targeting organizations or groups but even individuals and “entities” whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by any of the following “indicia” (indicators) of violence:
anti-Americanism,
anti-capitalism,
anti-Christianity,
support for the overthrow of the United States Government,
extremism on migration,
extremism on race,
extremism on gender,
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.
“The United States requires a national strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence so that law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies before they result in violent political acts,” the directive states (emphasis mine).

That all may sound laughable but these are unfortunately serious policies . The target list includes organizations which do not exist:

The FBI and the homeland security department are actively investigating “Antifa” individuals and organizations that the Trump administration has branded domestic terrorists. Actions so far include collecting intelligence on Antifa “affinity” groups, canvassing the FBI’s vast informant network for tips about Antifa, and scrutinizing financial records, two sources involved in the investigations tell me.

There are no ‘antifa’ organizations. ‘Antifa’ is the idea of fighting indications of fascism. From time to time local interest groups may claim to do so for this or that reason. This category ‘antifa’ was likely chosen because it can be applied to any group that opposes government policies.

Today Yves Smith reports of another enforcement agency that Trump will use to destroy opposition to him:

The war against Trump’s perceived political enemies keeps escalating. The Wall Street Journal provides new detail on how the Trump Administration intends to use an IRS criminal unit, whose members bear arms, as part of his campaign against “left-leaning” organizations. This fallows a Reuters account describing how the Trump Administration intends to use the Department of Justice and DHS to pursue “left wing” groups that allegedly fomented violence.
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Now to the press accounts. Key sections from the Journal’s report:
The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.
The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division, or IRS-CI, to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, officials said. The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes…
Among those on the list are the billionaire Democratic donor George Soros and his affiliated groups…

Many on the left will not mind any attack on George Soros as his organization is well know for financing foreign color revolutions against legitimate leftist rulers. We can however be assured that Trump wont stop with them:

The list includes Soros’ Open Society Foundations; ActBlue, the funding arm of the Democratic Party; Indivisible, a grassroots coalition opposed to Trump policies and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, a Los Angeles-based group.
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Other groups on the list include two Jewish nonprofits that oppose Israel’s war in Gaza – IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace.

There is unfortunately little institutional or political opposition that can restrain Trump:

The push against domestic groups and their donors comes amid Trump’s attacks on law firms, universities and the media, and his deployment of National Guard troops to some Democratic-run cities.
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Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian and former director of the Richard Nixon presidential library, said Trump and Nixon were similar in their desire to punish political enemies and silence critics, but a pliant Republican-controlled Congress and a cabinet packed with loyalists are enabling Trump to go further.
“That’s why this particular moment is more dangerous for the rule of law in the United States than the 1970s were,” Naftali said.

All these are ominous signs that Trumps war on the political opposition will escalate further. Seymour Hersh’s sources are warning of this:

What’s happening now may be a trial run for the use of those forces to interfere on the behalf of the president and the Republican Party in states where the Democratic Party has a chance to win crucial seats in next fall’s Congressional elections. I’ve been told by someone with inside knowledge that planning for such action is now under way in the White House.

The ‘coerced dominance’ that has marked Trump’s brutal approach to foreign policy will now being applied to domestic issues and legitimate opposition.

Russell Vought, Trumps’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, are the men behind this.

The scary thing is that there is, so far, little or any opposition to these plans and only few warnings about their consequences.