The Venezuela caper was about oil and empire, not drugs. From David Haggith at thedailydoom.com:
The Peace President acted this weekend like he was so angry over being spurned for the Nobel Peace Prize that he’s determined to show those dirty Norwegian rats that he doesn’t need it or want it. He’ll settle for imperial greatness, instead.
As we all know by now, the Don just started a new war in a country the US has never had a war with by launching the biggest attack the US government has ever made in the past eighty years (taking the president’s word on that) against a small South-American nation. He abducted its illegal president, made emphatically clear that regime change is the order of the day in Venezuela as the nation will, for now, fall under US puppet rule, and promised to pillage their primary national treasure—oil.
Don’t take my word for it; take the president’s own words when he announced the roaring success of his new war in the West:
“Overwhelming American military power, air, land and sea was used to launch a spectacular assault, and it was an assault like people have not seen since World War II,” Trump said…. “This was one of the most stunning, effective and powerful displays of American military might and competence in American history…. All Venezuelan military capacities were rendered powerless….
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition [regime change]…. So we don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years…. So, we are going to run the country.
As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust—a total bust…. They were pumping almost nothing by comparison to what they could have been pumping…. We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a much larger attack if we need to … a second wave if we need to … a much bigger wave actually….”
It will make the people of Venezuela rich, independent and safe….
(from thevideo below)
Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, added his own little summary of the action:
“Nicolás Maduro had his chance, just like Iran had their chance. Until they didn’t and he didn’t…. He effed around and he found out.” (Zero Hedge)
He found out what happens when he doesn’t take the Don’s shots over the bows and into the hulls of his drug-running boats seriously enough. Now President Trump says Moduro will be tried for his crimes in a US court of law.
The Moscow Green Zone is never going to happen.
Sad trombone.