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Venezuela Signals Satan’s Arrival

According to traditional Hindu texts, Kalyug, which started around 3102 BCE has a cycle of 432,000 years; its end predicted around 428,899 CE, when ‘Kalki’ will appear. But some modern interpretations, such as ‘Bhavishya Malika’, predict Kalyug ending around 2025-2032. The latter could well be true, which is why America’s blatant act of international terrorism in Venezuela (bombing Caracas and abducting democratically elected President Maduro and his wife without a declaration of war) indicates Donald Trump has arrived as Satan incarnate. The book ‘The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump’ by 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts published in 2017 had flagged Trump as a danger to the world

It is said that some guys have no compunctions about auctioning their dead mother’s womb for gifting a necklace for the harlot. Morality was never in the lexicon of Trump given his paedophile history, which he desperately wants to avoid, but this is  becoming increasingly difficult.

The Epstein files released by DOJ deliberately hide Trump exploiting underage girls. In early 2017, Jeffrey Epstein showed a dozen photographs to journalist Michael Wolf, three of which he remembers clearly. In two of these photographs, Trump is sitting beside Epstein’s pool in Palm Beach with a different topless girl sitting in his lap. In the third photograph, Trump is standing with a stain on the front of his pants, with three-four girls pointing at it and laughing.

America, under George W Bush, invaded Panama in December 1989, captured de facto ruler Manuel Noriega and sentenced him to 40 years prison in a US court. But Satan Trump is far more dangerous who without doubt “assisted” Zelensky’s drone attack on President Vladimir Putin’s residence, eyes Mexico, Greenland, Panama, Iran, Canada, and wants to fully control global supply lines; all aimed at a unipolar world while heading the Rogue-Based Order. Trump has pushed the United Nations below the defunct League of Nations and castigated the International Criminal Court.

Trump’s peace messages in pre-election rallies and on assuming the second presidency, plus dressing up as Pope, is no surprise because he is a confounded liar. It is quite evident Trump never wanted peace in Ukraine and Gaza. After the operation in Venezuela, Trump blatantly lied in his briefing at Mar-e-Lago that Marco Rubio (nicknamed Devil’s Disciple) had spoken to Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodriguez who promised full cooperation. The conversation never took place. Delcy is Vice President, who maintains Maduro is the President of Venezuela. Delcy has since been sworn in as Interim President. Trump also lied that no one died in the bombing of Caracas – at least 23 have died according to reports. Trump’s attempt to plant listening devices in North Korea failed miserably. Now he has made an about turn from his boast of “ruling” Venezuela. He was an idiot to think so in the first place because this would have been pretty costly and cost American lives.     

Trump’s Venezuela operation is viewed illegal unconstitutional and an unprovoked international war crime, which has little to do with narcotics and not much about oil;

more about payments for oil, which Trump wants forever in petrodollars, especially with BRICS unveiling an alternate payment system in December 2025. The US wants to use the divide within the polity and civil-military to dominate Venezuela, which is why Rubio supported award of Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado, although Trump now finds her unfit to head Venezuela.

Controlling Venezuela is supposed to throttle and automatically collapse the Cuban regime, which again Rubio has been pushing, being a migrant from that country. Here again, Trump’s migrant policy is laughable since his grandfather migrated from Nazi Germany and Melaina Trump is a migrant from Slovenia. How come Trump didn’t dare to do to Cuba what he did in Venezuela? Would Trump have the balls to do this in North Korea and pluck out Kim Jong-un? Venezuela is now considered America’s strategic asset – or is it with its government intact sans Maduro? Having induced global recession, Trump is now deploying the US Navy to control supply chains on the seas, with plans to expand the naval strength, including developing Trump Battleships.

For decades China has been building resilience in its energy strategy. America controlling global sea lanes could pose an existential threat to China. That’s why China has been positioning its currency and financial systems as a counterweight. The US imposed an energy tax on China without passing a single tariff. It transformed a bilateral pressure campaign into a multilateral stress-test of global supply chains.

By demonstrating weaponization of supply chains Trump has incentivized rivals to seek insulation from the dollar-centric system, if alternatives become attractive. Where America invests trillions in dominating sea lanes, Beijing will absorb, re-direct and eventually capitalize on the financial fallout. Energy, power and finance are inseparable and if the core interest of China is targeted, it will respond in the domain where it holds leverage – financial. Decisive confrontation will switch to exchange rates, capital flows, and the long-term contest over which currency anchors the global system.

From a strategic standpoint, this creates a permanent insecurity for any country whose economy depends on imported energy. It underscores the urgency of reducing reliance on a system where access can be denied by a naval power. If confidence in the dollar-centric order wavers even slightly, the effect ripples outward. China cannot fully secure every physical chokepoint but it can work to ensure that the financial system that those chokepoints serve is no longer unipolar. 

By demonstrating strength to control supply chains, the US is weakening foundations of the very system that underpins its power. The stage is being set for a confrontation that will not be decided by who controls the seas, but by who controls the rules, the reserves, and the currencies that govern global exchange. China doesn’t announce a currency war. Instead it allows the market to see what is willing to tolerate and, just as importantly, what it is no longer willing to suppress.

Interestingly. China is the only country in the world to have posted a trade surplus of USD One Trillion, whereas, America’s External Debt had reached USD 286.04.3 trillion in June 2025. Also, after returning to office, Donald Trump’s net worth jumped to USD 7.3 billion, up from USD 3.9 billion in 2024, according to a tally published by Forbes in September 2026.

Russia and China, unequivocally condemned Trump’s brazen attack in Venezuela, and many world leaders have demanded release of Maduro. New Yorkers thronged the streets protesting against Trump’s international criminal act (https://www.facebook.com/reel/1404003274724909). As to the Indian response (inset), an “opportunist” scholar wrote: “By calling it a matter of deep concern, New Delhi signals that it does not endorse the unilateral military action without burning bridges with the Trump administration.” Nice buttering but a strategist puts it bluntly, saying: “Wonder where is the voice of the self-styled Leader of the Global South and the celebrity Foreign Minister in this flagrant violation of international law? Even the Mayor of New York has publicly condemned it as An Act of War.” Yet another comment is: “Where is the old man who says This is Not the Era of War and We are a Land of Buddha not Yuddha? Are we going to remain a Pendulum State?” Some question why BRICS hasn’t issued any statement, but has India responded appropriately?

Such comments have arisen because the political hierarchy, particularly the foreign minister, can’t stop bragging about India’s “strategic autonomy”, but display pusillanimity when the situation demands showing spine. One example is whitewashing China’s land grab in Ladakh during 2020. In the instant case, there is no reason why India couldn’t condemn Trump’s attack in Venezuela even if not calling it a war crime.  The writeup by Prime Minister Narendra Modi titled Somnath Swabhiman Parv: 1,000 Yrs of Unbroken Faith’ in the  media is very interesting (https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/somnath-swabhiman-parv-a-1000-years-of-unbroken-faith-1026-2026/). But Modi’s script writer should know why Somnath Temple was destroyed and looted 17 times, and what General (later Field Marshal) Sam Manekshaw replied when asked by a reporter why he speaks so many languages but not Gujarati. Trade can’t be the end of everything, glossing over real issues under cover of religiosity.  If you don’t stand up looking the bully in the eye, he will mount on your head and push your face in the dirt, be it China or the US.

In the aftermath of World War II, the US lost no time setting the ball rolling for the Nazification of not only NATO but also the West (https://news4masses.com/white-taliban-organization-wto/). The results are more than visible in the neo-Nazi leadership of NATO, European nations, as well as the European Union hierarchy. Taming Satan Trump will take time but has to be done through insulating from the dollar-centric system in graduated fashion. The next US presidential election is scheduled on November 7, 2028. If Trump attempts to change the Constitution to extend his dictatorship, no one needs to send anyone to break into Mar-e-Lago - like Zelensky had sent a Ukrainian to assassinate Trump. Americans will do it themselves.

The author is an Indian Army veteran. Views expressed are personal.

 

More on Venezuela:

Lessons from the Venezuela Takeover: When Laws Are Irrelevant Without Enforcing Mechanism: https://www.thestrategicperspective.org/lessons-from-the-venezuela-takeover-when-laws-are-irrelevant-without-enforcing-mechanism/

US Capture of Nicolas Maduro and Erosion of Sovereignty: https://www.thestrategicperspective.org/us-capture-of-nicolas-maduro/

About the author

Lt. Gen. Prakash Katoch (Ret'd)

Lt. Gen. Prakash Katoch (Ret'd)

The author is a former Lieutenant General of the Indian Army, former Director General of Information Systems and a Special Forces Veteran.

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