I read this headline this morning and immediately thought: I totally believe that. And I reckon everyone who drives electric, to save the planet, like me, well, like Mel, would totally believe that such a claim is true. ‘The car did it!’ Because EVs have, quite literally, a mind of their own. You think you’ve shut the boot but, like Mel this morning who got paged after her swim, the car decided to open it a bit. One day it decides to lock itself up. Totally. I’m not saying all EVs are out to kill people but I think its time to re-visit the Terminator movies and make sure we’re not creating a class which can think for itself and take over totally, start a war against humanity, possibly take control of Venezuela and reduce the size of my pension!

Ahhhh, Venezuela. Trump doesn’t need AI. He probably can’t spell it. But he knows how to build an empire. Its easy. You just invade smaller countries, take them over, strip them of their assets and resources and then leave them lawless, defenceless and hopeless (Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam…). Or you can enslave the population, but that’s a bit ‘Caesar’ for modern times. And leaves you open to reparations claims 800 years later.

The Maduro kidnapping (what else would you call it?) was a militarily brilliant exercise. It was too slick for Americans really. Too ‘Mossad’. Sharp, concise, thorough and successful. Just a few dead, but they’re only Venezuelans so they’re probably linked to the drug trade somehow anyway. And Americans are familiar with killing Venezuelans as they’ve been using their small boats as target practice for the last year or so.

Our main concern is…

Well, according to our lacklustre, fence-sitting, terminally ambivalent Prime Minister, we don’t have any concerns we’re prepared to speak about. In case offence is taken by anyone at all. He can’t upset Trump; we have a ‘special relationship’, which means we have a decent trade deal. And he can’t upset the left of his party who are, as always, up in arms against everything America does, particularly against communist countries, with whom they sympathise. Hence Corbyn becoming the de facto spokesperson for ‘Maduro Venezuelans’. Not the vast majority of ‘non-Maduros’ who voted him out, but he cheated his way back in, who hate him and whose lives and livelihoods have been ruined by him. Corbyn doesn’t speak for them.

Trump did what he did to prevent the Chinese getting the oil and because he wanted it. And although the largest untapped oil resource in the world (!!!), Venezuelan oil is poor quality and hence will need much more expensive refining that the upmarket stuff pumped out of Arabia and Texas.

Does the US action create a ‘wild west’ type ‘grab it while you can’ world view, in which China feels free to storm into Taiwan? Or is China now in fear of the newfound American aggression?

I don’t know. And neither does Kier Starmer. Difference being: he’s paid to know. Or at least voice a fucking opinion.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx