NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

I’ve just finished Wild London and nobody but David Attenborough can make me weep over the lives of hedgehogs, field mice, beavers and slugs. A perfect and inspiring antidote to a horrendous day.

Somebody was jealous they weren’t getting any attention.

His programmes warm the soul like no other television. He really is the best of us. 🦌

On this gloomy day here’s something lovely. A nice little bit of faith restored in humanity and David Attenborough, one of the greatest humans, guiding us though. 🦔 youtu.be/Gsd5_xzebH0?...

Fuck Starmer. He’s such a spineless twat.

I have no idea where the Venezuelan Crisis will go but the moment US boots are on the ground the populace aren’t going to take lightly to occupation. It’s going to be bloody.

I literally can’t believe how crazy today’s news has been.

I’m tempted to go on a huge David Attenborough binge this spring.

I hope they keep the Secret Traitor hidden a bit longer. Sure, the other Traitors can know but keep us guessing. #TheTraitors

It’s too early for us to learn who the secret traitor is! #TheTraitors

Well they got one. Better than most groups. #TheTraitors

The three traitors are going to collapse! It’s only Roundtable 2! #TheTraitors

Just make Fiona PM already. #TheTraitors

Imagine if Harriet is the secret traitor and she banishes Hugo. Mother behaviour. #TheTraitors

Reece, there MIGHT be a shield here. #TheTraitors

The gays who work on #TheTraitors know we’re watching.

Why yes I’d love to be a milked cow, please. #TheTraitors

It’s taken him 12 hours to say… this.

Oh Ross and Ellie are CERTAINLY a couple. 100% #TheTraitors

Hugo isn’t going to last long. #TheTraitors

I think Jack, Ellie or Roxy is the Secret Traitor #TheTraitors

Oh no, poor Ben. Wicked, wicked Traitors. #TheTraitors

Has Starmer made any comments this evening?

He’s a moron masquerading as a serious politician.

Trump said Rodríguez had been sworn in as President but now she’s live on TV saying Maduro is the only legitimate President? What is going on? The administration haven’t a clue what’s happening.

Hegseth used the phrase ‘peace through strength’ a term first attributed to… Neville Chamberlain.

Fuck all of this, I’m going for a shag.

God, we’re all fucked.

The Midterms are going to become a single issue race.

I don’t think the administration realise how many troops it takes to occupy a nation.

Congratulations on your Emmy, James Austin Johnson.

How long until the Venezuelans start throwing oil into Caracas’s harbour.

Trump wants Latin America as satellite or client states of the US from the sounds of it.

So basically the Americans are launching their own version of the East India Company

Well Starmer has now heard the press conference so I cannot WAIT to hear his opinions.

We’re all going to be dead by 2031 so just enjoy yourselves.

Interesting that they’ve completely dismissed Machado. Clearly Trump hates here over the Nobel Committee’s decision and she’s been totally overlooked in favour of Imperialist rule from Washington.

Cuba and Colombia now. This is sounding strangely similar to Russia’s rhetoric towards Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and the Baltics.

How long until the US seek assistance from NATO allies for boots on the ground in Venezuela

Reminder that Venezuela is a country of 30m people and based on pre-Iraq war estimates in order to conduct an occupation even half way properly you’d need maybe 500,000 US boots on the ground.

Did they just say Rodríguez has been sworn in as President?

So Trump and Hegseth are going to be directly running the country?

Helping the people ‘forced out’ means mass deportations of Venezuelans, and probably most Latin American immigrants and refugees, into Venezuela.

A NATO nation is invading and occupying a country and that’s exactly what the Russians need to increase their own militarism in traditional ‘spheres on influence’.

By using the Monroe Doctrine as justification for invasion and occupation it’s certain that China will increase similar rhetoric on reclaiming Taiwan and Russia too in the Baltic states.

Now that the US is occupying a foreign nation get ready for Russia to pivot towards the Baltics by using the same rationale and China finally make moves on Taiwan. It begins.

Extending the Monroe Doctrine to the ‘Donroe’ doctrine clearly doesn’t mean stopping at Venezuela. Where next? Mexico?

This is like the OSS kidnapping Hitler in 1943 and saying you’re now in charge of Germany. Sure chief but Himmler’s now stepped up and you’ve still got the whole Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS who aren’t on board with your plan.

Trump just called his own actions ‘an attack on sovereignty’.