How come so many of the enemies of democracy that Trump wants to regime-change lead countries sitting atop large pools of oil? From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict.
As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict.
In an article titled “Inside Trump’s gunboat diplomacy with Venezuela,” Axios’ Marc Caputo writes that “The U.S. has never been closer to armed conflict with Venezuela, with a fully loaded U.S. flotilla sitting off its coast and dictator Nicolás Maduro living under a $50 million bounty.”
“President Trump ordered seven warships carrying 4,500 personnel — including three guided-missile destroyers and at least one attack submarine — to the waters off Venezuela,” Caputo writes. “Officially, they’re there to combat drug trafficking. But Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt leaned into the ambiguity of the mission on Thursday, noting that the U.S. considers Maduro the ‘fugitive head of [a] drug cartel’ and not Venezuela’s legitimate president.”
The US personnel reportedly include some 2,200 Marines.
“This could be Noriega part 2,” an unnamed official in the Trump administration told Axios, saying that “Maduro should be shitting bricks.”
I love their $50 million offered for the Epstein Files that R Dawson pieced together from court records.
A funny comment in the Rheinmetall article about ammo production at one plant, Ivan recently knocked out a NATO training facility and got one of the Donbas shelling planners.
What are the Venezuelans doing on top of our oil? (HONK)