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Take a moment to study this picture:

The modern Left loathes it – they see it as genocidal conquest. But it wasn’t that at all – it was the spread of civilization. The night of Barbarism flees before the light of Progress. The pioneer, the sodbuster, the railroad and, at last, the city. A new world is born and it is better for everyone…even the Barbarians if they give up their old and savage ways.

I bring this up because in the wake of taking out Maduro, plenty are saying “oh, its just for oil”. It isn’t just for oil. But even if it was – even if we said the only thing we want to do is physically take ownership of Venezuela’s oil reserves – this is not a bad thing…because the reason we would do so is to efficiently extract cheap and abundant energy to be placed on the open market so that the whole world – and most especially the poor – can benefit from it. Our ownership of the oil is a boon to the world…the Venezuelan government’s ownership of it is a boon to the leaders of Venezuela and a select group of Russian, Chinese and Iranian oligarchs. It is said that Venezuela sits atop the world’s largest oil reserves – even more than Saudi Arabia. This is worth, I am told, something like thirteen trillion dollars…and as long as the Maduro regime was in place, the people of Venezuela were going to keep rooting in garbage cans for scraps while the Ruling Class lived in palaces. It was unjust for that regime to continue to hold that asset – just as it was unjust for a small number of savages to hold the asset which eventually became the United States of America.

It is way past time we ditched the whole anti-West charade…this stupid concept of the Noble Savage. This idea that putting a city where a howling wilderness once stood is a bad thing. It is all so very stupid – proved stupid by the fact that not one person who rants and raves about the settlement of the USA is willing to assume a 1492 lifestyle. It is this concept that underlays all the other stupid concepts – like the idea that because a Third World dictator shouts “death to America” he has a point…or some concern for the well being of his people. Maduro could have made his people very wealthy…he could have tapped into the vast wealth of Venezuela and made sure that the profits from oil and gas extraction were used to increase the overall wealth of Venezuela. It wasn’t hard. The damned oil is there, plenty of people with knowledge and expertise were ready and willing to get it out of the ground and on to the market…but if Maduro had made the people of Venezuela wealthy, then he wouldn’t have remained in charge. It is as simple as that – like Lenin, Stalin, Castro and so many others, he knew that the only thing keeping him in charge was an impoverished people held down by well paid goon squads. Any alteration of this dynamic and out they go. Maduro and his cronies are not Venezuelan patriots…they only care about themselves.

And I, for one, and just darned tired of playing a stupid game…It is only now, in the 21st century, that some governments are starting to arise in Latin America that are based upon a patriotic desire for the people to do well – Argentina and El Salvador leading the way here. You think about Argentina – independence since 1810, a large (1 million square miles) country with vast natural resources and an educated population of mostly European origin…basically the same ingredients the USA has but until Milei got into office in 2023, not one government of Argentina had ever really cared about Argentinians, as such. Just various factions fighting for control via violence and voter fraud…causing a nation which should be at least as rich as the USA to still be poor here in 2026. Good to keep in mind when thinking about Latin America is that independence didn’t come from a vast, popular uprising against Spanish rule but because a tiny, Liberal elite felt that with Napoleon’s occupation of Spain in 1808, they had a chance to take over. Such a start was not conducive to the development of the sort of patriotism which makes for a successful nation…it has slowly developed over time and is now strong enough that it is forcing Latin American governments to become real governments rather than collections of opportunists seeking their chance to loot the treasury.

And you’ll notice that the genuine patriots have no problem with us – even if they disagree with us. I expect that patriots from another country will argue vigorously with me…but I also expect mutual respect. And we’re getting it…because that is the way forward. To make the deal. Sign the treaty. Do what is best by our respective peoples while also giving reasonable concessions to our foreign partners. Yet another chance for us to stop playing a stupid game – Milei is a man we can work with. A Maduro is a man to be whacked at the earliest opportunity…so, too, the leaders of Mexico, Columbia, Cuba and Nicaragua. They aren’t patriots – they are factions, usually these days in cahoots with Cartels when not owned outright by them. When they say “death to America” they aren’t saying anything at all…they are just playing a game which allows them to keep stealing. I saw a talking head on TV who was asked what she thought about Mexico’s “President” condemning Trump…she correctly answered that she didn’t give a darn what the so-called President of Mexico said…because she’s not really the President. She was installed by various criminal means to be a facade for a cowardly and corrupt Ruling Class. We here in the USA might have to deal with her for practical reasons…but for goodness sake, don’t think of her as a Mexican patriot…she’s barely retained a shred of humanity at the moment. We hope for her repentance but we need to keep in mind what we’re dealing with.

Back on that wagon train, my friends…back on the path of bringing civilization to the world, and whacking the barbarians at the earliest opportunity. Because civilization is good.