President Trump has just received a solid endorsement of his Venezuela action by….
The Washington Post.
That’s right. The almost-always anti-Trump Washington Post.
Here is the link to its editorial. Unfortunately I cannot show you the entire editorial, becaus it is behind a pay wall. But I can show you how it begins, which I got from a different website:
Justice In Venezuela
Millions of people around the world, most of all in Venezuela, are celebrating the downfall of the dictator Nicolás Maduro. President Donald Trump’s decision to capture him on Saturday was one of the boldest moves a president has made in years, and the operation was an unquestionable tactical success. The next step is ensuring that this triumph sets Venezuela up for stability and prosperity rather than more of the same, or worse.
What happened in Caracas was a clear reminder that America’s military, intelligence and cyber capabilities are second to none. More than 150 aircraft supported the Army’s Delta force in capturing Maduro and his wife. The couple are being extradited to the U.S., where they will face narco-terrorism, weapons and drug charges in Manhattan. There were no American deaths, although some U.S. service members were injured.
This is a major victory for American interests. Just hours before, supportive Chinese officials held a chummy meeting with Maduro, who had also been propped up by Russia, Cuba and Iran. No doubt millions of Venezuelans will remember who backed their oppressor and who effected his removal. But the end of Maduro will be a failure if it doesn’t also corrode the influence of American adversaries in this hemisphere.
Maduro’s removal sends an important message to tin-pot dictators in Latin America and the world: Trump follows through. President Joe Biden offered sanctions relief to Venezuela, and Maduro responded to that show of weakness by stealing an election.
This is from the Washington Post? Hard to believe, isn’t it? I would not have been surprised if the exact same words were from an editorial in the New York Post.
I’ll be monitoring other media and politicians to see if there are other surprises, both in favor of and against President Trump’s action in Venezuela.
I assume we’ll find some of both. But I doubt we’ll find any that are more surprising than this one.
