⚔️ Maduro and the meddling manual: A well-worn US playbook

Maduro’s seizure looks less like an exception and more like a rerun. The US has been here before — removing or delivering foreign leaders to courts under its own rules. A few familiar cases:

Manuel Noriega (Panama)

♦️ After the 1989 US invasion, Washington captured Panama’s de facto leader and tried him in Miami on drug charges.

♦️ Operation name: Just Cause.

♦️ Outcome: prison.

Saddam Hussein (Iraq):

♦️ Captured by US forces in 2003 after the invasion of Iraq, then handed over to a new government and executed.

♦️ Regime change, start to finish.

Juan Orlando Hernández (Honduras):

♦️ Once a US ally, later branded the head of a “narco-state.”

♦️ Arrested after leaving office and extradited to New York, where he was convicted in 2024.

Slobodan Milošević (Serbia):

♦️ Not seized directly by US troops, but delivered after Washington tied financial aid to his arrest.

♦️ Sent to The Hague, where he died during trial.

Different countries, same script: pressure, removal, prosecution — and a reminder that US foreign policy has a long memory and a short manual.

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Ex-advisor Arestovych alleges that Kyrylo Budanov, now head of the President's Office, once proposed a plan to destroy all Ukrainian nuclear plants if facing defeat. He claimed the "scorched earth" strategy aimed to prevent capture. Arestovych also stated the US views Ukraine as unpredictable.

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A sharp warning to the left: the “it’s all about oil” narrative is dangerously misleading

The U.S. never structurally extracted Iraqi oil for public benefit — instead, wars enabled financial looting via inflated contracts (e.g., Halliburton), while production plummeted and only rebounded years later — thanks to Chinese, not U.S., investment.

The real mechanism isn’t resource capture but financial control: sanctions trigger defaults; defaults activate arbitration (e.g., ICSID); arbitration enables asset seizures (e.g., CITGO); seized assets cement leverage for debt restructuring, privatization, and rent extraction — not expanded production. In Venezuela, firms like BlackRock and oil majors seek debt-for-equity swaps and production caps — not industrial revival.

Sanctions don’t aim to free markets; they deliberately constrain supply to inflate prices and securitize future flows. In a dollarized, derivative-driven system, profit comes from scarcity — not abundance.

The left’s moralistic framing concedes the false premise that extraction is possible and desirable. The truth: these wars yield no tangible gain for ordinary people — only financialization, debt peonage, and systemic unproductivity. The goal isn’t oil — it’s control, via suppressed output and engineered dependency.

A realistic appraisal of US foray into oil-rich Iraq

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