OPPRESSED U.S. CITIZENS SEND CALL FOR HELP

After suffering weeks of brutal oppression from Donald Trump's "ICE" stormtroopers, oppressed US citizens in Minnesota are now calling for foreign intervention, with graffiti appearing on walls begging Iran to "please send help." 

Although Iran is far from a perfect democracy itself, it is a country that at least doesn't offer voters the choice of two senile old men or one senile old man and a laughing Black woman, as the US has done at its last two elections; not to mention the 2016 election when the choice was between a narcissistic psychopath and Donald Trump.  

It is not yet clear what assistance the "mostly democratic" Islamic Republic of Iran can send to the oppressed citizens of Minnesota, but one idea is that it could offer sanctuary to the illegal aliens that ICE is hunting, or the Somalians who have been ripping off the Minnesotan welfare system for years. 

AMERICA IS SHIT AT FASCISM

by Colin Liddell

Since it was founded as an offshore lunatic asylum for religious fanatics that grew into a very large farm, America has constantly failed upwards.

But that long trajectory of unearned success may now be coming to an end due to America’s inability to get Fascism right.

By now, it is clear to any neutral observer that America, like any other country populated by a barely literate rabble of dysgenic mystery meat, needs an element of fascism to survive. Only this can prevent the toxic effects of its deindustrialising, consumerist liberal democracy returning it to the pristine, uninhabited “wilderness” state in which it was originally found.

But instead of calling upon a ruthless and immaculately-dressed military junta with excellent table manners, like this:

Or an aesthetically pleasing cadre of super villains like this:

Or a racially-elite phalanx of sporting übermensch like this:

America instead gets a shambolic gang of fast-food-bingeing slobs and incels like these:

These fumbling losers wouldn’t even be able to conduct a torchlight parade without setting their hair on fire, let alone liquidate an entire Czechoslovakian village for inadvertently forgetting to celebrate the Fuhrer’s birthday.

I mean just look at their “supreme leader,” some senile boomer who is hoping to stay in power by sucking off Lindsey Graham, rigging the next election, and begging the Supreme Court to help; instead of just casually putting his political opponents in a football stadium and having them all shot or dropped out of a helicopter like a true fascist leader would do:

Then there’s the henchmen.

Most real fascist leaders have totally based henchmen, whom they can rely on to commit acts of pure, totalitarian evil on their behalf. Ideally, these pitiless enforcers of the Supreme Leader’s will should also be able to raise a happy, healthy family and bang loads of hot actresses along the way, like this guy:

Instead America’s “Fascism” turns to losers like Stephen Miller, whose mid-tier, “sub-white” wife is the fuck-bucket of anyone who gets within a hundred yards of the White House.
 

Miller, Mrs Miller, and one of Mrs Miller's pussy drillers

It should be clear by now, especially to anyone familiar with the long and noble history of Fascism, that America is getting the shitty end of the stick once again.

Put simply, America’s so-called “Fascists” are totally shit at conducting a hyper-coordinated gleichschaltung enabling a palingenetic ultra-nationalistic revival and surge in masculine vril.

This is blatantly obvious from the top to the bottom, as we have already noted with the “Dear Leader” himself:

All the way down through his underperforming underlings, many of whom are submasculine soy-beard-wearing freaks, forced to copulate with random items of furniture by their long history of inceldom, rather than chads capable of doing a Kristallnacht, staging a March on Rome, or a blitzkrieg with insufficient supplies of gasoline:

Really, to paraphrase Donald Trump himself: American fascism hasn’t been sending us its best.

We were promised total Aryan chads like this:

But instead were delivered sad, little, manlet chuds like this:

Come on America, do better!

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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.

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TRUMP'S AMERICA AS THE FRANCE OF LOUIS XIV

by Cemil Kerimoglu

Throughout my previous articles (here and here), I have consistently drawn parallels between Ukraine’s current struggle against Russia - supported by its Western allies - and the 17th-century battle of Central-Eastern European states against the Ottoman Empire. That earlier conflict, which culminated in the formation of the Holy League, offers a historical precedent for what we are witnessing today. The Holy League, an alliance forged under the leadership of the Habsburgs, united the Holy Roman Empire, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Kingdom of Hungary in a collective effort to repel Ottoman aggression.

The decisive turning point in that struggle came in 1683 with the failed Ottoman siege of Vienna, which ignited the Great Turkish War - a war that pitted the Holy League against the Ottoman Empire. Over the next sixteen years, the coalition achieved a series of victories that eventually forced the Ottomans into retreat. The war concluded with the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, which marked the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s long and irreversible decline. From that point forward, the Ottomans, once a formidable expansionist power, would be relegated to a purely defensive posture, continually losing ground rather than gaining it.

The War of the Holy League stands as a powerful example of what a unified European effort can achieve in the face of an existential threat. It was a victory not only of military coordination but of civilizational defense, demonstrating that when European states work together, they can push back against an aggressive invader and preserve their shared heritage.

But this story has a deeper, more troubling layer - one that echoes eerily in our present day. While Central Europe stood united in its struggle against the Ottomans, one great European power was conspicuously absent from the alliance: France. Under the reign of Louis XIV, France not only refused to join the Holy League but actively worked against it, forming an alliance with the Ottoman Empire to weaken the Habsburgs. This policy was not an anomaly; it was the continuation of a Franco-Ottoman alliance that had been cultivated since the 16th century, when King Francis I first aligned with Suleiman the Magnificent against their mutual enemy, the Habsburg Emperor Charles V.

Louis XIV’s actions during the Great Turkish War can be seen as the birth of a self-serving, petty (proto-)nationalist approach that would come to define French foreign policy for centuries. Rather than standing in solidarity with fellow European states against an existential threat, Louis saw the war as an opportunity to advance his own short-term interests at the expense of his historical rivals. His short-sighted pragmatism weakened the unity of Christian Europe at a moment when it was most needed.

As the Ottomans prepared for their grand invasion of Vienna in 1683, they hesitated. Their military planners were uncertain whether France - the most powerful European state at the time - would intervene on behalf of the Holy League. Such an intervention could have tipped the scales against them. However, Louis XIV swiftly removed their doubts. He assured Sultan Mehmed IV that France would remain neutral, giving the Ottomans the confidence to proceed with their campaign. More than that, he actively encouraged the invasion when the Sultan himself considered pulling back, sensing the danger of overreach. Had France signaled even the slightest intention to resist, it is possible that the Ottomans would have reconsidered their march toward Vienna. Instead, they advanced.

Louis XIV’s betrayal of Christendom did not stop at mere diplomatic assurances. As the Ottoman armies laid siege to Vienna, he sought to sabotage the Holy League from within, working to prevent a unified European response. He attempted to dissuade the Polish King, Jan III Sobieski, from marching to the city’s defense. Fortunately, Sobieski ignored these efforts, leading his legendary cavalry charge that shattered the Ottoman lines and saved Vienna. But Louis XIV’s treachery did not end there. While the Holy Roman Empire struggled to repel the Ottoman assault, Louis XIV was already plotting to strike.

Jan III Sobieski at the Siege of Vienna

Five years later, in 1688, with the Holy League still engaged in battle against the Ottoman Empire in Hungary, Louis XIV launched an invasion of the Holy Roman Empire’s western territories. His forces ravaged the Rhineland in what became known as the War of the Palatinate Succession (or the Nine Years' War, 1688–1697). Cities like Heidelberg, Mannheim, and Speyer were burned and devastated as part of his brutal scorched-earth campaign, an act that shocked contemporary Europe. The timing of the attack was no coincidence: it was designed to cripple the Holy Roman Empire while it was still waging war against the Ottomans in the east. This forced the Habsburgs to divert troops away from the anti-Ottoman front, weakening the European war effort.

Louis XIV’s duplicity extended even further. While the Holy League waged its war of survival, France continued to wage war against its other European neighbors on multiple fronts. The Dutch, the English, and various German principalities were forced to divert resources and manpower to contain French aggression. Had they not been occupied with this task, they likely would have contributed more forcefully to the war against the Ottomans, strengthening the Holy League’s position. France, therefore, did not merely refuse to aid the fight against Ottoman expansion - it actively weakened Europe’s ability to resist.

Louis XIV’s actions provoked widespread condemnation across Europe. In England and the Netherlands, he was decried for his opportunism and accused of betraying Christendom by exploiting the Ottoman war to expand his own power. Across Protestant and Catholic Europe alike his invasion of the Rhineland was viewed as a calculated act of treachery, deliberately orchestrated to ensure that the Habsburgs were weakened. Among others, Pope Innocent XI strongly condemned Louis XIV’s aggression and instead supported the Habsburgs in their struggle against both the Ottomans and the French.

And yet, despite France’s betrayal, the Holy League triumphed. Against all odds, the coalition of Central and Eastern European states managed to crush the Ottomans and force them into permanent retreat. The war culminated in the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, marking the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s decline. The Habsburgs, the Poles, and other defenders of Europe succeeded without the help of Europe’s most powerful state at the time - and in spite of its active sabotage.

If history is to serve as a guide, then the failed Russian assault on Kyiv in 2022 must become Russia’s own Vienna 1683 moment - not just a successful defense but the beginning of an offensive war that will push Russia into a permanent retreat. Ukraine’s resistance, with the support of its allies, has the potential to transform from a fight for survival into a decisive counterattack - one that does not merely repel Russia’s invasion but ensures its ability to threaten Europe is permanently curtailed.

At this critical juncture, however, history offers us another parallel - one that is equally troubling. In the 17th century, France, under Louis XIV, did not just refuse to join the struggle against the Ottoman Empire; it actively worked against European unity, sabotaging the Holy League, attacking its neighbors, and ensuring that the Habsburgs remained too weak to fully crush the Ottoman threat. France’s century-long strategic alignment with the Ottomans reached its most blatant and destructive form under Louis XIV.

Today, Trump’s America threatens to play the same role that Louis XIV’s France did in the 17th century. Now, during Trump’s second term there are clear signs that his administration will try to undermine Western unity at the precise moment when it is most needed. His hostility toward NATO and the European Union, his antagonistic posturing toward allies like Canada and Denmark, and his sympathy towards Russia, all mirror Louis XIV’s self-serving and destructive geopolitical maneuvering.

One striking example has been Trump’s attempt to acquire Greenland from Denmark, a bizarre and unprecedented move that, when Denmark refused, led him to threaten punitive measures against one of America’s closest allies. As a direct consequence, Denmark was forced to divert additional military resources to Greenland - resources that otherwise could have been deployed where they are needed most: in Europe to defend against Russian aggression. Instead, Denmark found itself needing to defend territory from a potential American encroachment, just like back in the 17th century western German principalities, the Dutch Republic and England needed to divert their resources to counter Louis XIV’s aggression instead of helping the Holy League in its war against the Ottomans.

For more than a century, the United States has harbored an unrealistic, often naïve view of Russia - seeing it not as a rival, but as a potential ally, albeit an imperfect and wayward one. This historical pattern has repeated itself in various forms: from American material aid to Russia in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union in World War II, to the belief that post-Soviet Russia could be integrated into the Western order.

Trump’s foreign policy represents the most extreme version of this century-old American tendency to accommodate Russia. Just as Louis XIV’s France was the culmination of a century of Franco-Ottoman alignment, Trump’s America is the clearest expression of a misguided U.S. tendency to treat Russia as a misunderstood partner rather than a civilizational enemy.

At the very moment when Western civilization faces an existential threat from Russian expansionism, Trump - alongside figures like Elon Musk and J.D. Vance - is embracing a petty, destructive form of nationalism, abandoning America’s role as the cornerstone of the Western alliance. Louis XIV’s betrayal of European unity in favor of his own short-term gains echoes Trump’s willingness to sacrifice long-term Western interests for his own narrow self-interest.

Caricature depicting Louis XIV as Apollo in his chariot, 1701

It is increasingly evident that the new Trump administration, along with the broader MAGA movement that propelled it to power, is positioning itself on Russia’s side. Its rhetoric is laced with hostility toward Europe - America’s natural civilizational brethren - while its actions, cloaked in empty platitudes about “peace” in Ukraine, are designed to secure a Russian victory. Just as Louis XIV quietly wished for Ottoman banners to fly over Vienna and took every measure to facilitate that outcome, so too does the Trump administration seek to “freeze” the war at this pivotal moment - not to end the bloodshed, but to rescue Russia from a catastrophic defeat. By cutting aid to Ukraine just as a final push could shatter Russia’s war effort, Trump and his circle aim to buy time for Moscow to regroup, recover, and strike again. Their sympathies are thinly veiled; had Russian tanks rolled into Kyiv in 2022, Trump, Musk, and J.D. Vance would not have mourned - they would have celebrated.

But history offers an encouraging lesson: just as the Holy League prevailed in the 17th century despite the treachery of Europe’s strongest power at the time, today’s European coalition can crush Russia even without America’s support - and even in the face of its hostility. The balance of power overwhelmingly favors Europe. If the Holy League of the past - without France - managed to break the Ottomans and push them into permanent retreat, then today’s European coalition, with or without the United States, can do the same to Russia. And in fact, the conditions are even more favorable today than they were in the 17th century.

A military alliance of Ukraine, Poland, the Baltic states, and the Nordic countries alone could overpower Russia - far exceeding the relative strength that the Holy League had against the Ottomans. And beyond this core, Germany, Britain, and France remain deeply invested in European security. Should they fully commit to the cause - which, as it seems now, they will - the balance of power would become so lopsided that defeating Russia would be not merely possible, but inevitable - a task as simple as swatting away a nuisance. Even without American support, Europe today is vastly superior to Russia in terms of economic strength, technological advancement, military potential, and even demographic resilience.

In these fateful times, Europeans must not despair. They must look to history - not as a relic of the past, but as an inspiration for the present. Time and again, Europe has faced barbarian invasions, imperial aggression, and existential threats, only to emerge stronger, triumphant, and undefeated. Vienna 1683 was not the end of European civilization - it was its rebirth. Kyiv 2022 will be the same. Just as the Ottomans never recovered from their failed siege, so too will Russia be permanently weakened - pushed back beyond its ability to wage another war. The West must only do what history demands: stand firm, remain resolute, and finish what has been started.

Europe will prevail.

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TRUMP'S DAVOS FLIGHT TURNS BACK TO PICK UP DIAPERS

Donald Trump’s plane, Air Force One, was forced to abort its flight to Switzerland on Tuesday and turn back after what officials described as a “misplaced diaper issue.”

Due to his advanced age, obesity, and typical American diet, the President is believed to be a “walking shit tube” who goes through diapers quicker than a maternity unit during an outbreak of dysentery.

The President then boarded another aircraft, an Air Force C-32, a modified Boeing 757 normally used for domestic trips to smaller airports, to continue his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said the decision to return to Washington DC had been taken shortly after departure “out of an abundance of diarrhoea, both verbal and anal,” once the crew detected the fault and were unable to fly and breathe.

A White House pool reporter travelling with the president said the lights in the press cabin of Air Force One flickered off briefly as the tsunami of brown faecal matter leaking from every orifice of Donald Trump surged in, though no further explanation was provided at the time.

Once back on the ground at Washington, an emergency supply of diapers were rushed to the Presidential flight, allowing the increasingly senile and incontinent leader of the Lunatic Asylum formerly known as America to continue his trip to Switzerland.

GEOPOLITICAL ANARCHOTYRANNY

Another nightmarish scene from the hellworld of the 2020s

by Colin Liddell

I have no wish to dignify anything Donald Trump says, does, or tweets by treating it as anything more than the rancid outpourings of an opulent insanity, but I was involuntarily reminded by the disturbing switch in US "foreign policy" since the election of the old paleoconservative concept of anarchotyranny.

For those who don't remember, the concept was devised by Samuel T. Francis back in the 1990s, which was essentially the best decade in human history, when people had to think hard and dig deep to find real problems. 

Just a normal day in the fun-packed 1990s

In Francis's idea, Anarchotyranny referred to a government that simultaneously exhibited anarchic and tyrannical behaviour towards different subjects. Typically this meant policing or oppressing the easy-to-police (White) elements of society; while allowing the more difficult-to-police (Black) elements of society to run rampant. As you can see, it derived very much from the American experience, but had some wider applicability.

We could also apply this concept much more accurately to frame the geopolitical situation—at least while the present "Trump Aberration" continues—with the lunatic-led US state playing the role of the "anarchotyrannical policeman" who allows the criminal states to run rampant, while directing most of his oppressive ire against the law-abiding ones.

In this sad analogy, law-abiding Europe is the easy-to-police  (or oppress) element of geopolitical society; while Russia, Iran, North Korea, and others, are the bad boys in the ghetto, who are allowed to get away with murder, because going in to police them would be too risky and inconvenient.

Even if the "nice guys" of Europe stand up for themselves, America's "bully cop" is unlikely to suffer any direct negative consequences (indirect, however, may be another matter).

By contrast, if the American "global policeman" were to take on the Russian or Iranian gangsters, there would inevitably be immediate negative blowback, even if the long-term or indirect benefits would be commensurably greater. The Biden administration made some attempt to square this circle, with limited success.

Francis described anarchotyranny as a kind of bastardised "Hegelian" synthesis, with seemingly opposite forces actually reinforcing each other. I doubt, however, that this is in any way a stable construct at the geopolitical level.

For this reason, it is far more accurate to frame Trump's actions as those of a lunatic. The only question that remains is how much of the American population is similarly afflicted or infected. Afterall, if you can't recognize that someone is a lunatic, it is perhaps because you too are a lunatic. If the number of lunatics in American society is too high, then the anarchotyranny of Trump is not an aberration but a new reality.

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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.

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BREAKING NEWS: SENILE, OLD, BED-SHITTING MAN SHITS BED AGAIN

 

A senile, old, bed-shitting man who is internationally famous for...erm...shitting the bed, has gone and shat the bed again.

The bed shitting event occurred just after the senile, old, bed-shitting man's sheets had just been changed, allowing him to soil another clean pair of sheets.

In related news, the senile, old bed-shitting man, who oddly seems to be President of America, raised tariffs on all countries that don't agree with his ridiculous idea that Greenland should become part of the USA, demonstrating once again that America is run by a senile, old, bed-shitting man who never stops shitting the bed he's in.  

THE TWO POWER BLOCS: LOONEY TOONS vs THE PREDICTABLES

by Colin Liddell

The World has been split along some interesting lines in its long and messy history. More recent examples include the Communist World vs the Free World in the Cold War period, which was succeeded by the G7 vs BRICS thing. This has now been replaced by the latest division, which we saw on display during Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to China. 

During that visit the New York Times asked Carney if China was now a more predictable partner to Canada than the US, to which he replied:

"Yes, in terms of the way that our relationship has progressed in recent months with China, it is more predictable, and you see results coming from that."

Yes, the division is no longer ideological, it is actuarial, with the world divided into nations that believe in chaos and those that crave the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty.

On one side you have America and Russia, whilst on the other you have the EU, the UK, China, and, yes, Canada, which has been completely alienated from its former close relationship with the United States by Trump's increasingly unhinged behaviour.

But let's be careful not to just blame just Trump. To those of us who have been paying attention, it is clear that the forces of chaos have been building up in America for some time, with some of the more prominent factors being an oligarchic billionaire class made up of AI-obsessed autistic types, dysfunctional demographics, and a misshapen democratic structure that serves both to eradicate trust in the political system and polarise the population.

With Russia, it's a much simpler story of a mafia state believing its own very potent propaganda and falling into a hole it dug itself.

But no matter how you get there, once you enter "Camp Chaos," you are essentially on the same side, especially if you are separated from your fellow inmates by the padded walls of intervening countries.

Likewise, with the Predictables. Once you notice that there are countries, formally allied to you that are now doolally, there is a common instinct to back away from them and, instead, forge links with countries whose only similarity to your own is that they like to behave in ways that are at least foreseeable. 

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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.

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NIGERIAN ANCHOR BABY FIRES WELSH ZIONIST FROM UK CONSERVATIVE PARTY FOR PLOTTING TO JOIN PUTINIST PARTY

Peak UK Conservatism: Nigerian anchor baby vs Welsh Zionist X Kremlin agenda

The leader of Britain's Conservative Party, who is a Nigerian anchor baby married to a Scotsman, has fired one of the party's leading members, a prominent Welsh Zionist married to a member of Britain's Jewish community. The reason for the sacking is because the Welsh Zionist was plotting to join a Putinist-aligned populist party whose main purpose is to split the right-wing vote in the UK and boost the SNP in Scotland.

The Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch (formerly Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke) was born in the UK back in 1980, after her Nigerian mother entered the country to acquire a valuable "birth-right citizenship" for her, before taking her back to Nigeria where she was raised up to the age of 16. She also has Nigerian citizenship, which she has not renounced. 

The law that allowed her to acquire UK citizenship so easily during a short-term visit by her mother, was changed soon afterwards to prevent birth-right citizenship being granted to people of foreign parentage soon after (with the British Nationality Act of 1981).

Despite being a Nigerian anchor baby, Badenoch nevertheless managed to get herself elected leader of the Conservative Party in 2024. This was after most of her competitors in the party had been annihilated in the General Election of that year. Badenoch, however, survived simply because she had been "parachuted" into a safe Tory seat in 2017 as part of a long-running "modernisation" campaign by the party to have more non-White faces. As ethnic candidates placed in Tory seats generally performed badly, they were seldom put in marginal seats. 

The leading member of her party whom she has just fired is Robert Jenrick, a man of Welsh ancestry with deeply Zionist sympathies who is married to a member of Britain's Jewish community; a community which is definitely not shy about exerting its political influence in the UK. In the past, Jenrick has also received generous funding from other members of that community.

Of course, his Zionism had nothing to do with his firing, as the Nigerian anchor baby is also strongly pro-Israel. Instead, he was fired for plotting to defect to Reform UK, a party that is aligned with Kremlin interests, funded by Russian-flagged dark money, and supported by its own TV news channel funded by yet more dark money, this time with clear links to Vladimir Putin. 

DID PUTIN DO A DEAL WITH DONALD TO BETRAY MADURO?

by Colin Liddell

There are troubling details about the recent US Special Forces operation in Venezuela that removed President Maduro from the country, but did little else. As we all know, Maduro's Chavist regime is still in place and the country is still inaccessible to US oil companies, which is odd as access to US oil companies seemed to be the whole point of the operation.

But more troubling than this is the apparent evidence of Russian collusion with the Trumpists, which might also explain why the Chavists are still in power.

So let's look at all the main pieces of "inconvenient" factual evidence that don't quite line up with the official government narrative.

(1) There is clear evidence that Russia began quietly evacuating the families of its diplomats from Caracas one-to-two weeks before the strike. This was cited by sources like the Associated Press, who got the story via European intelligence and witnesses observing diplomatic vehicle convoys outside the embassy.

Although the US strike only went in on January 3rd, the plan was initially set for execution around Christmas Day, around a week earlier, but was delayed due to adverse weather conditions and overlapping US strikes in Nigeria.

In short, the Russian diplomatic evacuation dovetails almost perfectly with the US strikes. Yes, the Russians knew something was on, even though Congress was kept entirely in the dark.

(2) No Russians were killed in the strikes, despite Russians previously playing key roles in Maduro's personal security as well as manning the Russian-sourced air defence systems that were, oddly, powerless to stop an armada of helicopters flying into the heart of Caracas.

The best estimates for the death toll put it at 55–57, of whom around 32 (more than half!) were Cubans and zero Russians. 

There are other, more contentious pieces of evidence, some of which you can read here, but just these two clear and obvious pieces stand out like the proverbial sore thumb and point to some level of collusion between the Trump and Putin regimes.

The only other possibility is that Russian espionage or signals intelligence got wind of the U.S. strike, but in that case, they could have (a) either saved Maduro or (b) provided a nasty surprise for U.S. special forces that would have deeply embarrassed Trump, so, in either scenario, there is a clear element of collusion.

If there was a literal deal between Trump and Putin over Venezuela, its exact nature is hard to fathom, as there are no clear winners yet. However, it is not hard to see Putin throwing Maduro under the bus in return for Trump promising to help him in Ukraine, or possibly by destabilising and even destroying NATO, a project that Trump seems to be enthusiastically engaged in with his aggressive and even deranged rhetoric against Greenland.

How Iran fits into this picture, remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: it is better to have Russians as enemies than friends.

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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.

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THE VONROE DOCTRINE > THE DONROE DOCTRINE

by Colin Liddell

There's been a lot of talk recently about the so-called "Donroe Doctrine," which is basically Donald Trump's shittier version of the Monroe Doctrine—and the ridiculous notion in Donald Trump's own diseased brain that he is somehow Emperor of the Western Hemisphere.

Increasingly there is a growing chasm between the bloated image of Donald Trump's power and its shrivelled reality. This can be seen in the case of Venezuela, where Trump has destroyed a lot of American soft power in exerting minimal hard power over the country by kidnapping its leader and hijacking its oil tankers. He now claims to "control" the country. Meanwhile, a recent meeting with US oil executives showed just how reluctant they are to invest even a single cent in the country with the world's largest oil reserves. On top of this, the State Department is now advising all Americans to leave the country as Trump's unhinged actions have created serious blowback.

Also, the "hard power" component of what Trump is attempting must be seriously doubted, as the US military is clearly too chickenshit to put boots on the ground, something that America has obviously been incapable of doing due to past humiliations. Without that there are extreme limits to America's much vaunted hard power.

Also, it should also be said that the Venezuelan regime was a piece of particularly low-hanging fruit, with a particularly illegitimate and unpopular president, who had hung onto power by blatantly rigging elections. A less cack-handed president than Trump could easily have overthrown and replaced the Chavists in Caracas with a pro-American government to the enthusiasm of the people. Trump, meanwhile, hasn't overthrown the regime and has in fact strengthened it to some degree by his blatant contempt for Venezuelans and Latin Americans in general.

But there are other flaws in Trump's moronic iteration of the Monroe Doctrine. These have now been emphasized by what I shall call the "Vonroe Docrtine," named after the EU President Ursula VON der Leyen and the EU's recent geopolitical success in making Trumpian America look increasingly irrelevant in its own "backyard." This was done by signing a major trade deal with the Mercosur group of South American states.

For those unfamiliar with it, Mercosur is South America's free trade imitation of the EU's free trade area. It includes Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Venezuela is a full member but has been suspended due to its undemocratic government, while Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama, Peru, and Suriname are associate countries. Mexico and New Zealand are observer countries, which means they might be interested in joining sometime in the future. At one time it was thought that Mercosur would one day link up with NAFTA, which is clearly mouldering somewhere in a shallow grave somewhere near the building site that used to be the White House.

The EU-Mercosur deal represents a massive expansion of European influence and economic power in Latin America at a time when America has nothing to offer but corrupt arrogance and geopolitical incontinence. 

Under the deal, the European Union and the Mercosur group will create the world's largest free trade area embracing over 700 million people.

Doubtlessly, a lot of the difficulties that normally arise in signing such a complex agreement were overcome partially thanks to the growing antipathy both sides now feel towards Donald Trump's America, with its tendency to engage in random tariffs and sporadic, terroristic military operations. 

The Vonroe Doctrine is simply the inverse of the Donroe Doctrine, substituting sensible trade, democracy, mutual respect, and anti-corruption for the incoherent and shambolic gangsterism vomited forth by a clearly senile Donald Trump.

Right now it looks like a winner and will doubtlessly have many Americans casting envious glances at the grown-up politics that the rest of the World is engaging in, while their own President continues to shit everywhere except in his potty. 

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TRUMP TO BE PRESENTED WITH MACHADO'S NOBEL PRIZE ALONG WITH THE SEVERED HEAD OF RENEE GOOD

Trump: It's "Good" to be a "Mach(ad)o" man

In yet another desperate attempt to mollify and "sanewash" America's lunatic President for up to five minutes, plans have been unveiled to present Donald Trump with the severed head of ICE victim and mother of three, Renee Good, along with the Nobel Peace Prize that was "erroneously awarded" to another mother of three, María Corina Machado.

Ms Good was recently shot three times in the face by an untrained ICE officer in Minneapolis while she was minding her own business. Since then she has become a "hate figure" to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement on a par with Joe Biden, Qasem Soleimani, and Marjorie Taylor Green, who also happens to be a mother of three.

According to the organisers of the looney-placating ceremony, Ms Good's head will be detached from her cold, dead body using a chainsaw, and then ceremoniously presented to America's 47th President on a silver platter, along with Ms Machado's Peace Prize, in an event evocative of the quaint rituals of the Mexican drug cartels, the Italian Mafia, and the Tren de Aragua. 

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THE "DONROE DOCTRINE" DOVETAILS PERFECTLY WITH THE "PUTLER DOCTRINE"

Vlad Vexler explains that even though Putin has lost a friend in Maduro, he is still quietly pleased with Donald Trump's trashing of the international order. The "Donroe Doctrine," as Donald Trump has christened his policy of hemispheric piracy, aligns perfectly with Putin's own faltering attempt to reboot his own Hitlerist dreams.