Who is going to stand up and save the world from US entitlement?

Something outrageous and unthinable happened at the dawn of 2026. U.S. striked Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro, in a swift operation that took place without the approval of the UN, or the US Congress itself. It is illegal by international and US law, yet somehow the world is just watching and tolerating yet another US illegal takeover and bullying of another country.

US President Donald Trump even blatantly stated that "we're going to run the country" for now", after Maduro's removal, or shall I say literal kidnapping from Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. The move comes as after months of tensions between the two countries and attacks on boats by the US, accused of carrying drugs from the South American country, something that was never officially proven. President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela said the U.S. military operations were a thinly veiled effort to oust him from power.

Maduro was open to talks with the US on drug trafficking allegations, just two days before America invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president. But as usually, the self righteous Americans did what they do best; ignored international law, the UN, the sovereignty of another nation, and they "yeehawed" into Venezuela to establish their will, dominance and own economic interests.

The relationship between the two nations was always complicated, since former Vnezuelan President Hugo Chávez took office as president of Venezuela. Chávez declared himself socialist and "anti-imperialist", in reference to being against the government of the United States. Tensions between the countries increased further after Venezuela accused the administration of George W. Bush of supporting the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt against Chávez. Accusations which they later withdrew.

The reason for all the above of course, is one; oil! Americans want it desperately and they will stop at nothing in controlling as much of it as they can, no matter where it comes from. But ever since Venezuela nationalized it's oil reserves, America found an excuse to meddle in their country. Especially after Hugo Chávez officially took office in February 1999, several policy changes involving the country's oil industry were made to explicitly tie it to the state under the Bolivarian Revolution. That meant that nationalizing heavy oil projects in the Orinoco Petroleum Belt which formerly operated by international oil companies ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Chevron, obviously caused unwanted ripples in the oil market, in which USA relies so much.

Not that Chavez or Maduro are examples of good leadership or democracy, as they both mismanaged their country's resources, they installed people close to them in key positions in their country's oil industry and corruption was widespread. However that does not give USA the right to "fix" other nations, without the approval of the UN. But when it was actually the last time that America played by the rules that they themselves call upon when their adversaries like China or Russia, do something wrong? Was it during the Iraq war that they blatantly lied about the alleged "weapons of mass distruction", that existed in Iraq and threatened US national security?

Many Venezuelans are celebrating outside their country the fall of Maduro, since the country's economy was in a bad shape for years. Partially because of corruption and their leaders' mismanagement, but do not forget the barrage of US blockades, sanctions since 2006 and oil embargo since 2019. This is a very well known policy of US, that somehow wherever there is oil, some dictator or "regime" is in power which the heroic, always benevolent Americans see fit to oust, replace and liberate the country by installing a new regime that is friendly to their own interests.

They break the country's economy with sanctions, so that the people suffer and they eventually become keen for a government change. In addition they fund the opposition, or they simply appoint and recognize them, or award them with a Nobel Peace Prize. My enemy's enemy is my best friend, right? Then all they have to do is stirr unrest and tighten the economic sanctions, until the citizens come to a breaking point, and there the Westerners get their legitimacy for intervention.

Something like this is also happening to Iran now, and it actually happened before in the same country many times over. The US helped oust Iran’s government in 1953 and reinstate the Shah, which in turn brought as result the Islamic Revolution, since the Shah was very unpopular after a few years in power. We all know the outcome of this to this day. But even now, Iran hasn't escaped US intervention, as Iran's currency depreciation 'brought about by US sanctions' and government 'mismanagement'. An economic mismanagement of course, according always of course to Western media.

The people of Iran are suffering and just like Venezuelans, feel the need to a "change". They are currently protesting in their country and it is not a coincidence that all this is happening at the same time with the events in Venezuela. The US President Donald Trump has already threatened the Iranians, that he is ‘locked and loaded’ to back demonstrations, again just like all the benevolent and freedom fighting US governments have done in the past, meddling in another country's affairs and offer solutions to an internal struggle that they helped to be created.

Little do both the Venezuelans and the Iranians currently know or remember in their desperation now to overthrow the current "regime", is what happens once their country is "saved by the God blessed America". Just take a look at Libya, where people there were so keen to get rid off Gaddafi in the past, that they also celebrated his downfall. Fourteen years later and Libya is in a worse state, a "fractured state" and a failed one by all means.

That will be the future of Venezuela too. A civil war may occur between those loyal to Maduro and the current establishment and those supporting change. The US will no doubt establish a friendly to them regime in the country (as Trump already declared), that will make it easier for them to rob Venezuela of its own oil. With the tolerance of the rest of us, and shamefully the collaboration of Europe.

So our continent tolerates all this, setting an example for anyone that wishes to annex a country, rob of its resources or proceed to a regime change, just to go ahead and act on it. I wonder what the European leaders will do, if Russia does the same to Ukraine's President Zelensky. Or if Trump, now unbothered by anyone, just goes and annexes Greenland as he already stated and expressed his interest of accomplishing. What if China copies US example and takes over Taiwan in the same way? Where do we draw the line, plus a most pressing matter; what will happen with Trump's Nobel Peace Prize aspirations now? Clearly he is not qualified for it under the circumstances.

Joking aside, how can we as European have the nerve to lecture or sanction Russia or China to abide by international law, when America can so blatantly go and piss on it so arrogantly and provokatively, and all that the European leaders can say is that they are "supporting the Venezuelan people". Which ones exactly, only the ones who oppose Maduro, or the country as whole which was humilated in the globe by having its own leader dragged away by another government, which is going to judge and trial him according to their own laws?

Will there ever be sanctions against America, somebody to finally stop them from taking it upon themselves to bring their own solutions to problems they partially created with their foreign policy? America is obviously desperate for resources now, as is Europe after financing the war in Ukraine for years, thus Venezuela will pay the price.

So far, no mention of the damage done or the number of victims that this "operation" by the US have had in Venezuela by our own Western media. Just celebrations and "concerns", support for the future- no matter what that means for the stability of the country or the region as a whole and Latin America as a continent. The world passively watches yet another US war crime, and tolerates it. I think it is about time that the rest of the world ganged up against the US and copied a page out of their own book; kidnap their President and trial him, saving the American people from the lunacy of their leaders.

Swedish "mafia", redefines corruption and the migration crisis in Europe.

Recently I came across and artice in EU Observer : "From welfare to 'Wild West': The man who profited from Sweden’s refugee crisis", which is part of a series of investigations conducted by Dutch investigative collective Spit and Italian publication Altreconomia into Europe's privatised migration market across six countries: Italy, Albania, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the UK.

In this story, we learn how a former member of the progressive left in Sweden turned the 2015 refugee crisis into a lucrative business, exploiting not only the people who had fled wars and persecution with housing in Sweden, but also his own country and affecting Europe as a whole to an extend. The business exploits of Jan Emanuel, a former socialist member of the Swedish parliament, have led to a soul-searching of a welfare state that gives an outward image of offering everyone high-quality publicly funded services in the Scandinavian nation.

Sweden in the 2000s had already outsourced most of its welfare sector to private companies (wait, what?). And Emanuel's case, a reality TV star turned new-public-management capitalist, demonstrates an even deeper pivot towards the capitalisation of public services. At one point, he became Sweden's most expensive refugee contractor, billing the state €10,000 per month per child: €2,100 for the family where the child was staying.

As Sweden grappled with some ten thousand people arriving every week during the fall of 2015, the opportunities to outsource the public services to the private sector exploded. It was an unprecedented influx for a state that, up until then, had the capacity to take in only 2,500 per week.The total number of refugees reaching Sweden in 2015 was 162,877, of which 70,000 were minors. Half of the minors came alone.While Germany had received the highest number of refugees in Europe in 2015, Sweden received the most per capita.

The article continues to describe how Emanuel set up his first "business"- HVB-homes: care homes for homeless and runaway youth.Youth care is the part of the welfare sector where privatisation has penetrated deepest, with 90 percent of HVB-homes being run by private contractors.His homes were soon criticised for understaffing. One of them promised 24 hour-staffing, but in reality, the nighttime staff was Jan Emanuel himself, who dropped by once in a while.

But it all went wrong in the end, as at his care home outside Uppsala, where unaccompanied minor refugees were housed, crimes were reportedly rampant. Meanwhile, Emanuel became part of former Social Democrat PM Göran Persson's circle, which was awash with men wanting to make a quick buck, many of them securing a well-paid job in banking or lobbyism after leaving politics. One of them was Per Nuder, often referred to as ”Sweden's most well-paid lobbyist,” who helped Jan Emanuel sell his HVB company for €2.2m, whereof Nuder's own share was €1.2m.

And this criminal activity spread throughout Sweden and across Europe as well. A total of 278 new companies specialising in the care of unaccompanied minors were founded just in the fall of 2015. About 14 percent have registered criminals on the executive board, while some have ties to organised crime, such as the motorcycle mafia Bandidos.

This revealing article, should be making headlines across Europe, however our media focus on the war in Ukraine and other issues, to turn our attention away from the crimes committed by such individuals, to the detriment of all: European citizens and migrants alike. Firstly, it is very interesting that this case comes from Sweden, a country often portrayed as a model for every other European nation; low criminality and corruption, high living standards, stable economy, progressive views on social issues, including migration.

The reality is very dissimilar as it seems. If such scandals took place in Bulgaria, Greece, Romania or Italy, the European press would be quick to make them known and blame these nations for Europe's migration woes. But when it comes to Sweden, a poster child of European leftist liberalism, the story is quite different.

In addition, European media usually blame "human traffickers" of third nations in north Africa, the Middle East or Turkey for the massive influx of migrants and refugees, but never people like Emanuel, individuals with strong and good connections and part of the political fabric of each EU member state. You see if they expose these individuals, the story of the so called "refugee crisis" that Europe is facing for over a decade now, quickly becomes a money making scheme for some of the European elites and other opportunists like Emanuel, to the detriment of European tax payers, that are asked to pay the bill as always.

So how will this narrative, to maintain this multicultural model that European elites pushed for in decades hold, or the "refugees welcome" movement, when it becomes clear that it is all a hoax, a exploitative scheme and nothing more? How will our ruling elites justify their actions and policies they adopted, if articles like these expose the corruption involved?

You see, it is easier to blame Belarus or Putin for engaging in a "hybrid war" against the so called liberal free democracies of Europe, by pushing thousands of refugees into EU member states, but who is going to hold these individuals like Emanuel accountable, for the damage the do to European societies for their own profit? Who is going to deal with the mess they are creating?

And so basically Sweden is considered progressive in its policies by privatising everything, even its own welfare sector to private companies, while other countries in EU- predominantly from the South and Eastern regions, are deemed as "backwards", just because they do not follow suit. As if privatising every state company or organization, is the way forward and something that needs to be copied from everyone, if they want to achieve the high-standards of Sweden's social and economic policies.

Well, I would not think so anymore. When you pass ownership to private companies of your welfare sector, you basically give power to individuals like Emanuel to make profit, while your tax payers and citizens are asked to pay and live with the consequences. And latelly we can witness the results of such crazy policies, when Finland and Sweden boasted the highest unemployment rates in October 2025, together with Spain.

It is not "progressive" to privatize all state bodies and organizations, especially those who deal with immigration and social welfare of the state. You are technically passing all responsibility and power to private owners, who in turn can turn your country into whatever they want, according to their interests and not necessarily the interests or wishes of your citizens. I am sorry but it must be the state that is held accountable by a parliament and the in extend the voters, that should maintain all controll and accountability.

Not that in nations that do not go down this way, there is no corruption or abuse of power, but at least they are not hailed as "progressive" in a mockery of the situation and only to promote an agenda or this rampant liberalism and faux progressiveness that has gripped Europe latelly, and which our elites tried to sell to us as the new norm. In addition, the result and consequences of this madness, is quite the opposite of what one would expect.

The Sweden Democrats, is a nationalist and right-wing populist political party in Sweden founded in 1988. As of 2024, it is the largest member of Sweden's right-wing bloc and the second-largest party in the Riksdag. Sweden, after resisting the Far Right and populism for years, has finally gone down the road of many other European nations, by turning to nationalism for solutions.

And people like Emanuel, jump on the rightwing populist trend, after for years posing as Leftwing Liberals. He is now a frequent guest on podcasts, he declares that there are too many immigrants and if they can't adapt, they need to get out, as he poses admiringly next to controversial British-American influencer Andrew Tate in a TV show.

Consequently, thousands of immigrants are caught in a system that basically never cared for their welfare and only brought them into Europe to profit from their presence and desperation. They find themselves in a continent that increasingly turns against them, profiling them as "free loaders", "muslim cancer", "third world colonists that will turn Europe into their lands", as they are caught in a system that wants them to remain second class citizens, so it can blame them for everything in the future.

As for the European citizens, they are also lied to by their own governments and media, that the problem of migration is brought upon them by outside enemies of Europe like Putin, or corrupt human traffickers in poor countries and that we have no other option but to accept millions of migrants that we cannot integrate, do not want them to assimilate into our societies, thus resulting to the rise of the Far Right across our continent; something that can only mean trouble for the future for everyone in Europe; divisions, segregation, economic downturn, limitations of freedoms for both natives and immigrants, limitations of freedom of movement and ultimatelly everything that Europe allegedly stood for.

This is shamefull and not only for Sweden, but for all Europe as a whole since this is surely not a strictly Swedish phenomenon. As this article explores and states, this incidents also affect the Netherlands, the UK, Italy and Albania so we are talking a pan-European issue that has been kept under wraps by our media and politicians, so the European elites cannot be held accountable for the grave mistakes, corruption and sell-off of European wealth and indentity or values. It is time to expose them and realize that we are been lied upon. The enemy is not the migrants, but politicians and opportunists like Emanuel, who with their connections and money, are destroying our nations and continent and are themselves in turn supported or covered by powerfull elites, with suspicious, dangerous agendas.