Given the amount of firepower the U.S. has off the Venezuelan coast, there’s no way it’s there to stop the flow of drugs rather than to regime-change Maduro. From Michael Tennant at thenewamerican.com:
Nicolás Maduro
The Trump administration claims its attacks on civilian boats in the Caribbean Sea are intended to stop drug trafficking. But the amount of firepower the United States has sent to the region suggests something much bigger — possibly even an attempt to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
In the last three weeks, the U.S. military, acting under orders from President Donald Trump, has sunk three civilian boats that were traversing the Caribbean after leaving Venezuela. Trump and other administration officials insist that the boats were transporting illegal drugs to the United States and that those killed — 17 by Trump’s reckoning — were therefore deserving of summary execution, Constitution and international law notwithstanding.
However, as The New York Times reported Saturday, neither the president nor any other official has offered any evidence to support these claims, even in congressional briefings.
Interdiction Contradiction
The United States has dispatched far more military assets than necessary for these small operations. According to the Times, “The military so far has deployed eight warships, several Navy P-8 surveillance planes and one attack submarine to the region.” It has also placed F-35 fighter jets in Puerto Rico.
“Several current and former military officials, diplomats and intelligence officers say that while fighting drugs is the pretext for the recent U.S. attacks, the real goal is to drive Mr. Maduro from power, one way or another,” wrote the Times.
Big scuttlebutt about meeting of admirals and generals with comrade kommissar Hegseth next week.
Paula White will speak jive?
Moshe Trumpstein’s (MIGA) masters are unhappy with Venezuela and they still don’t have a Rothschild bank?
Average Intelligence says NO!
I am being deported for thoughtcrime noticing.