I hope I am wrong on that and he is dead right about the consequences to the US and Israel if they persist.

Me too. It's the thuggery part that gets my goat. It's so effing blatant.

Venezuela will have to take care of itself methinks and just may be up to it. We obviously don't have the receipts yet of what happened, and thus the situation still remains murky.

Iran is likely going to thrive unless it gets nuked which would mean that Israel, as a Jewish state, will cease to exist. Hope not regarding the nuked part.