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Trump’s U.N. tirade: Threats, invasion plans, and cheers for bloodshed

U.S. President Donald Trump has deployed an armada of warships, above, and other military assets to the waters off Venezuela in an operation aimed at Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. One of the largest U.S. military deployments in Caribbean waters ever, Pentagon officials privately call the operation “Noriega Part 2” — a reference to the 1989 invasion of Panama that toppled Manuel Noriega.

President Donald Trump used his U.N. speech to boast about the use of U.S. military power in recent actions, threatening nations with war and celebrating the criminal actions of his administration with unvarnished glee.

Trump indicated that Washington will act alone when it wants and won’t let international law get in the way. The message was that the U.S. will deploy threats, tariffs, and military force at will.

In a nearly hour-long tirade, Trump mocked the U.N., saying it creates problems instead of solving them. The message was that global institutions only matter when they back U.S. goals.

Trump sneered that “your countries are going to hell,” branding migration an “invasion” and urging governments to replicate Washington’s brutal policy of mass detention and deportation, disrupting and ruining people’s lives.

Dismissing climate efforts as the “greatest con job,” he attacked clean-energy plans, giving protection to Big Oil’s profits and asserting U.S. control.

Trump shrugged off the genocide in Gaza — unsurprising from the man who armed Israel to the teeth and pitched Netanyahu on his “Riviera of the Middle East” plan, a thinly veiled blueprint for ethnic cleansing.

As Israel cut off food, bombed neighborhoods, and stormed Gaza City to level it, Trump fixated on denouncing Palestinians, ignoring the U.S.-funded carnage on the ground.

He bragged loudly about last June’s joint U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran. After luring Tehran into sham “peace talks,” Washington and Tel Aviv launched massive strikes on civilian nuclear facilities. Trump gloated: “Today, many of Iran’s former military commanders, in fact, I can say almost all of them, are no longer with us. They’re dead.”

For Trump, the empire’s bloodshed is just another applause line for his bloated ego.

Targeting Venezuela

At the U.N., Trump laid the groundwork for a U.S. invasion of Venezuela — part of Washington’s bid to overthrow the popular Venezuelan government, seize Venezuela’s oil and push back China’s influence in South America.

In recent weeks, U.S. forces sank three boats off Venezuela’s coast, killing at least 17 people on baseless drug-trafficking claims. Even if that were true (there’s not even an attempt to present any evidence because there is none), no state — least of all an empire — has the right to carry out summary executions on the high seas.

Trump didn’t bother with excuses. He flaunted Washington’s violence, warning from the General Assembly: “We will blow you out of existence / obliterate you,”

For the empire, murder is policy — and Trump holds much of the world, especially Venezuela and Cuba, under the gun.

Gary Wilson

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