Why Donald Trump REALLY Kidnapped Maduro

Why Donald Trump REALLY Kidnapped Maduro

Jan. 13, 2026

U.S. EMPIRE COLLAPSING - FOLLOW THE MONEY

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The United States is a gangster state. What they don't teach you in school or university is that the world is run like the mafia. Mike is right. Your resources are my resources and violence sets the terms. Donald Trump has made that clear to every person on this planet.

Everywhere is vulnerable if you don't do what the mafia boss tells you to do. So it doesn't matter where you are. And it doesn't even matter if you're in the Western Hemisphere.

The United States under Donald Trump says you do what you're told, otherwise we'll take you out, we'll kidnap you, or worse, we'll kill you. And in my opinion, it's been like that for a long time. But the mask is truly off with Donald Trump. Three years ago, Donald Trump mocked the fact that the United States was buying oil from Venezuela. He inferred that if he was in power, he'd just take it.

"How about we're buying oil from Venezuela. When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over. We would have gotten all that oil."

God bless Donald Trump for telling the world how it really works. We're taking billions and billions of dollars worth of oil and it'll be hundreds of billions of dollar. It'll be trillions of dollars. This is the world we're in now.

The U.S. empire has entered its decadent phase. I can't see a way back from this and I don't think Trump wants to see a way back from this. This is the first stage in a new era where naked imperialism rules and the Western Hemisphere particularly, but of course the whole world belongs to the United States and is United States property.

And if leaders don't do what they're told by Washington, they will be taken out. In the face of all this, you have European leaders basically supporting Trump. So, they're digging their own graves because it won't stop with Venezuela.

Of course, it won't. He's already said he wants to take Greenland next. He's threatening Colombia. He's threatening Cuba. Nowhere is safe from Donald Trump. Nowhere is safe from the United States.

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