I know, I know. I'm just as shocked as you are.

"This action, taken pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13692, targets six security officials who control many of the groups that prevented humanitarian aid from entering Venezuela, thereby exacerbating the humanitarian crisis that has left millions of Venezuelans starving and without access to medical care under the Maduro regime," reads a statement from the US Treasury, if you can imagine such a thing.

"Those who continue to support a dictator that violates human rights and steals from the starving should not be allowed to walk around with impunity," tweeted US National Security Advisor John Bolton of this latest escalation, to everyone's breathless astonishment. "The United States will continue to take appropriate action against Maduro and those aligned with him."