It would seem that Donald Trump and his cohort of henchmen and women in Washington, DC can be ranked amongst their number. Trump has started a war against Venezuela. Third, disastrous as this action is, hope remains possible because Trump's ineptitude has made the likelihood of the long-term success of what he has set out to achieve so unlikely. You can accuse me of struggling to find any good interpretation of unfolding events in what I have written here. As I have said many times before, at the end of many blog posts, we have to live in hope.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2026 21:47 UTC