The answer is us.
I spent this International Women’s Day thinking a lot about courage. About women who speak out when they’re told to be silent. About women who step forward when they’re told to step back. About the collective strength of people who refuse to accept that the world, as it is, is the world as it has to be.
And then tonight as I scrolled the news I couldn’t help but wonder what’s happening in Venezuela. A country that’s magically disappeared from our news feeds even though the people living there don’t get to escape their reality. What happened there was framed as a noble war against crime. But oil deals were being discussed within days, if not hours and, let’s not kid ourselves, probably before the raid began.The world moved on but Venezuelans didn’t get to.
One man with too much government money at his disposal and nuclear arms at his fingertips has decided that the world is his to reshape. Not through democratic mandate but through economic coercion, brute military force, and the sheer audacity of someone who’s decided the rules simply don’t apply to him.
Nobody in the rest of the world voted for him to make the world his business. Not Cuba. Not Venezuela. Not Greenland. Not Canada. Not anywhere.
The only answer to one person deciding he has no limits is for all of us to decide that we do.
We have limits. We have values. We have laws. We now need the collective will to use them and to make stopping him our business, before it’s too late.
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However it is done, be it putting him on a Musk rocket on a one-way trip to mars, bringing back the guillotine, tar and feathering, or a good old fashioned maximum security prison cell, we need to cut the head off this evil snake, and watch his enablers fall off like molting skin.
“Make stopping him our business before it’s too late!”