'Fatal flaw' in Trump's Venezuela move threatens to trigger horrific spiral

The King of GOP Assholes is constantly doing dumb things that are fatally flawed-- here it's because the spheres of influence concept of US power is bound to set off more wars 

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The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state

The Venezuela incursion is in line with this logic, made even plainer as the US eyes Greenland

(Guardian) When a bleary-eyed Trump explained the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro this past Saturday, he invoked the Monroe doctrine: while the US president sounded as if he were reading about it for the first time, historians of course recognized the idea of Washington as a kind of guardian of the western hemisphere. Together with the national security strategy published in December, the move on Venezuela can be understood as advancing a vision for carving up the world into what the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt called “great spaces”, with each in effect supervised by a great power (meaning, in today’s world, Washington, Moscow and Beijing). But more is happening than a return to such de facto imperialism: Trump’s promise to “run the country” for the sake of US oil companies signals the internationalization of one aspect of his regime – what has rightly been called the logic of the mafia state. That logic is even more obvious in his stated desire to grab Greenland.

Also this is disgusting

Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire

The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.