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A remarkable story on Saturday, as Donald Trump’s soldiers  attacked several Venezuelan military bases while his Special Forces  (in a breathtakingly professional operation) managed to bag the president of that country and his wife Cilia to take them to some location in the USA – later revealed as a detention centre in up-state New York. The Pentagon said that Maduro will be judged for criminal offences and that the attacks on the country would cease. Maduro, on his way to Justice. Give them their due – it was a slick operation. The whole enterprise was a bit similar to Putin’s 2022 attack on Ukraine, the buildup of forces on the frontier and so on, but evidently turned out to be rather more successful. Will China feel that it’s their turn now with Taiwan? We shall see. My son, who lives in the Midwest, can now expect cheaper petrol at the gas-station, and will thereby appreciate that at least one of the Presidential promises has been fulfilled. Aljazeera has ‘Madu...

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