After Maduro’s shocking kidnapping by the Trump regime marks a new step in the collapse of the international order, akin to the collapse of the League of Nations caused by Hitler, another sociopath, the hapless hypocrisy of the Western powers in the wake of the kidnapping is reminiscent of their stupid and fatal unwillingness to support Republican Spain during the civil war. We wait, transfixed, for the next horror, probably the dismembering of Cuba, the small island that has resisted US hegemony for sixty years. As an act of nostalgia I watched The revolution will not be televised, that extraordinary record of the attempted coup against Chavaz, made by an Irish film crew who just happened to be there. The reversal of the coup was the result of the massive anger of the people at the tearing up of the constitution. The demonstrations in US cities the day after Marduro’s kidnapping suggests that people’s anger around the world, if vehement enough, is the only thing that might rein in the current sociopath, Donald Trump.