The harsh reality of world order again manifested

Why did the Trump administration launch a major military attack on Venezuela on Saturday morning, bombing facilities and capturing the country’s leader Nicolás  Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores and flying them to the United States?
The charges levelled by the US against Maduro, in an indictment unsealed Saturday and quoted by ABC News, include narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices.
In the indictment, federal prosecutors alleged Maduro “is at the forefront of that corruption and has partnered with his co-conspirators to use his illegally obtained authority and the institutions he corroded to transport thousands of tons of cocaine to the United States.”
They also allege that Maduro and other members of the Venezuelan government sold passports, provided protection and enabled the sale and transportation of hundreds of tons of illegal drugs through their ports, including drugs from several recognised Mexican drug cartels.
Okay, we’ll accept the allegation for the moment. Then why should the US want to “run” Venezuela for an undetermined period after removing Maduro? 
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition to new leadership”, Trump said at a news conference in Florida after his forces abducted the Venezuelan President. 
However, at the same time,  Trump said that Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez “was sworn in as president just a little while ago” and that she had a “gracious” conversation with Secretary of State Marco Rubio to offer her support. He seems to be not against Rodríguez being sworn in as the president,  as she had a “gracious” conversation with Rubio interestingly “to offer her support.” 
What then is the “proper and judicious transition” he was talking about?
But on state television later, Rodríguez told the Venezuelan public: “We demand the immediate liberation of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores,” calling Maduro “the only president of Venezuela.”
Very few people in the world might have accepted  Trump’s attribution of the US invasion of Venezuela and abduction of its President to face charges of narco-terrorism conspiracy,  or anything that Trump had referred to. Even if the whole world accepted the US reasoning of this invasion, it does not justify at all its plans to plunder the oil resources belonging to Venezuela. Trump said U.S. oil companies were prepared to make major investments in the country. 
“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country,” hehad stated.
In fact, the allegations against Maduro, even if they were true, are just a smokescreen to justify the plundering of oil resources in Venezuela. This was very clearly pointed out by Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez in her remarks on state television. She accused the U.S. of instituting regime change solely for the purpose of extracting oil and other natural resources from Venezuela. 
She had said, according to ABC news, that the U.S. “only had one objective: regime change in Venezuela. And  this regime change allows them to capture our energy resources, mineral resources and natural resources.” 
The Americans did this especially to many oil-rich countries. For instance, they talked about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) allegedly possessed by Saddam Hussain and launched a war against Iraq in 2003 and destroyed the country, killing Hussein, but no WMD were found. Similarly, human rights violations was the ruse to destroy Libya under Muammar Gaddafi. The Western powers  accuse their victims every time of terrorism or despotism, but this is sometimes a half-truth. 
The interesting point is that world does not accept the US or British or Israeli attributions to their destruction of countries, and they in turn know it;  but they continue with their lies while the world is also pretending to accept them. This has been the world order for decades,  and will be the same for the foreseeable future. 
Given by the caution followed by the current Sri Lankan government in respect of the US and  Israel for the past one year, the National People’s Power (NPP) seems to have realised this harsh reality, despite its traditional leftist slogans against imperialism.

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