Rebecca Solnit:

1:

They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab.[…]

How Venezuela stole its own oil on its own territory is something I would love JD Vance to explain in a war crimes tribunal, but the short version is imperialism plus the habit of Republican administrations of regarding the fossil fuel industry as inseparable from government and making its interests the top priority.

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It is also an attack on international law. It undermines any US opposition to China seizing Taiwan, which appears to be a possibility this year, and normalizes the invasion of Ukraine by the Putin regime. […] When Trump is finished, this country will have immense repair work to do to reestablish the rule of law at home and rebuild international alliances. If we return to normal. If we remain a nation.

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This is serious and important and we must pay attention to it. But we must not lose sight of what the Trump Administration would love us to lose sight of: a wildly unpopular president doing his utmost to harm the people of this country and enrich himself, his family, and his cronies while in rapid mental and physical decline and in an ongoing panic over what the Epstein files could tell us about him.

Solnit punctuates her post with social media screenshots from politicians and others illustrating the depths of this regime’s illegal, unauthorized, and dangerous actions.