A day that will live in infamy
The US has today bombed and invaded a sovereign country to execute regime change. European leaders are too terrified of Trump to condemn it. Will they react the same if the US invades Greenland?
In the early hours of this morning, the US pulled the trigger on its long-telegraphed threat to invade Venezuela – bombing the capital and nearby coastal areas and extracting its president to imprison him in the United States. “We're there now. And what people don't understand, but now they will understand as I speak, is we're going to stay until such time as the proper transition can take place,” President Trump said announcing the operation to the American people several hours later. “We're going to run the country. We don't want someone else to get in and we have the same situation." He said the US occupation “will make the people of Venezuela rich, independent and safe"."We're going to have our very large US oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the infrastructure and start making money for the country."
The US is "deadly serious about getting back the oil that was stolen from us, and deadly serious about reestablishing American deterrence and dominance in the Western Hemisphere,” said US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “This is America First. Welcome to 2026.”
It has been clear for months that this was likely to happen, especially as the regime in Washington seeks to distract from Trump’s plummeting poll numbers, the Epstein scandal and rising inflation caused by tariffs. And yet, European leaders were caught flat-footed. Not a single European leader has condemned the US invasion today. It took EU president Ursula von der Leyen three hours to react, and when she did she appeared to endorse the strike. Saying she is “following very closely” the situation, she said she “supports a peaceful and democratic transition” and “any solution must respect international law and the UN Charter”. It is an absurd statement considering that the strike and kidnapping that already took place clearly violates international law and the UN Charter. The EU’s foreign ministers seem to have received marching orders to focus on protecting EU citizens in Venezuela and not on the strike itself, following EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas’s early reaction calling for “restraint”. “The safety of EU citizens in the country is our top priority,” she said, also appearing to endorse the US invasion by adding, “the EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy”.