Prague Astronomical Clock

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap the foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it.

'I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.' - J.R.R. Tolkien, born on this day, January 3,

World leaders denounce U.S. operation to capture Maduro trib.al/mWBslMm

"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." Nuremberg Tribunal, 1946.

Trump is conducting straight up petro-imperialism.

The big Q - what next after the US Pres tramples thro int laws, upends the rules based order and tosses aside his own Congress by launching strikes on Venezuela. ‘The coup is illegal, unprovoked and regionally and globally destabilising’ says Simon Tisdal theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Question — if the US is not currently running Venezuela as Trump claimed, does that mean he is preparing to fight the Venezuelan military now to gain control of it?

In a healthy democracy, there would bipartisan Articles of Impeachment on the floor of the House by tonight But we are neither a healthy democracy nor, I would argue—given the end of our separation of powers and our rule of law—a democracy at all anymore

The wolf full moon appearing out above the clouds over Carlingford Lough and the Mourne mountains this evening.

Last year, Trump promised American oil executives “a great deal” if they donated $1 billion to his campaign. Today, he gave them Venezuela — home to the largest oil reserves in the world. This new war is not only illegal and reckless; it is deeply corrupt.

Venezuela #Venezuela #venezuelainvasion Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

The United States has now given Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to give it a try an even clearer road map for invading countries that displease them. theatlantic.com/international/…

While Marco Rubio and others at least talked about freedom and human rights for Venezuelans, Trump didn’t bother pretending. He made it clear this was about oil. Venezuela’s oil reserves are estimated at $17.3 trillion, and the U.S. is now set to control them.

Trump watching top secret Venezuela operation unfold at Mar-a-Lago last night. Curtains? Sure doesn’t look like a very secure room, but that’s Trump for you.

In his press conference about the US operation in #Venezuela , Trump said the word , oil, multiple times. He never said the word, democracy, once.

“This is Trump’s most audacious foreign-policy decision in either term of office—more significant than the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander, in 2020 or even the strike on Iranian nuclear facilities last year” theatlantic.com/international/…

Trump 2016: “We cannot be the policemen of the world.” Trump 2020: “We are NOT the policemen of the world.” Trump 2026: “We made an arrest in Venezuela…and we are ready to stage a second, and much larger, attack.”

I felt the need to look at some flowers.

And to all a good night!