Lidt opfølgning på den kæntre(n)de fredsudvikling i Gaza/Israel, hvor Trump et al fortsat kæmper for at opretholde illusionen om en virksom våbenhvile:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/29/live-israel-kills-63-in-gaza-trump-insists-nothing-will-jeopardise-truce________________
De seneste uger har som nævnt haft retning mod et amerikansk orkestreret regimeskifte i Venezuela. Som bl.a. den nylige modtager af Nobels fredspris har opfordret til, er Venezuela sat under hårdt pres; sanktionerne er intensiveret, militæret er opmarcheret og Trump et al har givet CIA en spøjs bemyndigelse til at iværksætte covert operations i landet. Der kan i nær fremtid blive tale om endnu en latinamerikansk regimeskiftekrig, som understreger at verdens såkaldt største demokrati har meget lidt respekt for international ret - og håndhæver en Monroe-doktrin, som andre regionale stormagter fordømmes og søges afstraffet for.
PBS bragte g.d. en interessant artikel, som afdækker at man også under Biden forsøgte at underminere det venezuelanske styre ... hvis der altså fortsat findes nogle med kendskab til historien, som mener at det udelukkende er Trump, der fører en kriminel udenrigspolitik.
"The untold, intrigue-filled saga of how Lopez tried to flip the pilot has all the elements of a Cold War spy thriller — luxury private jets, a secret meeting at an airport hangar, high-stakes diplomacy and the delicate wooing of a key Maduro lieutenant. There was even a final machination aimed at rattling the Venezuelan president about the pilot’s true loyalties.
More broadly, the scheme reveals the extent — and often slapdash fashion — to which the U.S. has for years sought to topple Maduro, who it blames for destroying the oil-rich nation’s democracy while providing a lifeline to drug traffickers, terrorist groups and communist-run Cuba.
Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has taken an even harder line. This summer, the president has deployed thousands of troops, attack helicopters and warships to the Caribbean to attack fishing boats suspected of smuggling cocaine out of Venezuela. In 13 strikes, including a few in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the U.S. military has killed at least 57 people.
This month, Trump authorized the CIA to conduct covert actions inside Venezuela, and the U.S. government has also doubled the bounty for Maduro’s capture on federal narco-trafficking charges, a move that Lopez sought to leverage in a text message to the pilot."https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-attempted-to-lure-maduros-pilot-into-betraying-the-venezuelan-leader