Nigeria, Jan. 5 -- Amidst fires, wide scale destruction and bloodbath, the predatory United States, US hawk, swooped on President Nicolas Maduro. It then flew out, holding in the grip of its talons the Venezuelan president and his wife, Cilia Flores. The hostages were deposited in a New York detention facility.

Some appeared shocked that a country would attack another and pluck its First Family. But I am not surprised. The US establishment was born and grew with a predatory instinct, hence its 'Wild, Wild West' culture of banditry, brigandage and chaos. As a matter of fact, Venezuela is the ninety-sixth country the US has invaded or interfered in since the Second World War ended in 1945.

In history, it has invaded Nicaragua over forty t...