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 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were scooped up by "U.S. Law Enforcement" early Saturday morning and whisked away to an undisclosed location. Attorney General Pam "My Word Is My" Bondi insists that the couple will “soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”

As the preamble to every installment of the ancient sitcom used to say, "Confused? You will be after this episode of Soap."

Expcept this isn't a sitcom. This is the very frightening state of United States foreign policy in 2026. Up until now, the goons have been content to attempt to kidnap foreigners in our country they suspect may have broken a law and send them to some other country. Now this has evolved into going to some other country to find foreigners who they think have broken some law and bringing them back to our country. Couple this with the complete absence of due process and respect for the institutions put in place by our Consitution, and you've got a mass of bad decisions made by a gang that can't shoot straight. 

In case we have all forgotten what this same crew that oh-so-very recently pardoned the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, releasing him back into the world after spending two years of a forty-five year sentence for (no need to check notes here) drug trafficking. Mister Maduro and his wife were spritied away from their country to New York on charges of (need to look at these notes) "narco terrorism." 

Speaking of notes, I just checked: Honduras has no oil reserves. Venezuela is sitting on the world's largest proven oil reserves. 

Meanwhile, countries are lining up to condemn the actions of the least popular "president" in American history. Russia, for one. "The pretexts used to justify such actions are untenable. Ideological hostility has triumphed over businesslike pragmatism," said Russia's foreign ministry. 

Russia, in case you've forgotten is currently at war with Ukraine because of ideological hostility, negating businesslike pragmatism. Which pretty much finishes off any possible credibility the U.S. might have running around their own hemisphere stirring up trouble. 

And what about Congress? Well, Little Marco Rubio did call Florida Representative Carlos Gimenez to say, "We got him." Which I suppose amounts to this administration involving Congress in the acts of war it feels the urge to carry out in lieu of releasing the unredacted Trumpstein Files. The orange buffoon says he'll be running Venezuela for now. He bankrupted three of his own casinos. What could go wrong? 

For now the clock is ticking, but make sure to tune into the next episode which will be every bit as infuriating and confusing as the last.