This post is the 15,000th post I have put on IST! (Damn my fingers are tired…LOL)
Covid-19 is screaming around the globe and the preparations and responses have been pathetic at best…..and yet with all that to deal with Donald the Orange has decided to flex his muscle against Venezuela…..first just a couple of days ago The Trump team put a bounty on the leader of Venezuela…..https://lobotero.com/2020/03/30/venezuela-the-bounty/
We have a naval operation is being carried off along the waters off the coast of Venezuela……
President Trump announced Wednesday that Navy ships are being moved toward Venezuela as his administration beefs up counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean following a US drug indictment against Nicolás Maduro, the AP reports. The president’s announcement was a break from the daily White House press briefing to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, which has left much of the country in lock-down and which the government warns could cause 100,000 to 240,000 deaths. “The Venezuelan people continue to suffer tremendously due to Maduro and his criminal control over the country, and drug traffickers are seizing on this lawlessness,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said after the president’s announcement.
The mission involves sending additional Navy warships, surveillance aircraft, and special forces teams to nearly double the US counter-narcotics capacity in the Western Hemisphere, with forces operating both in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. Esper said the mission would be supported by 22 partner nations. The enhanced mission has been months in the making but has taken on greater urgency following last week’s indictment of Maduro, Venezuela’s embattled socialist leader, and members of his inner circle and military. They are accused of leading a narcoterrorist conspiracy responsible for smuggling up to 250 metric tons of cocaine a year into the US, about half of it by sea.
I appreciate your help chuq
The best time to slip in a new war – when everyone is focused on a battle to avoid COVID-19.
Looks like just what they are doing….plus they are trying to do the same with Iran. chuq
Sick! I try not to hate, yet it is difficult to accept these behaviors as how decent people live and behave.
“Look here, not there.”
Exactly chuq
This is beginning to sound like the Nicaraga Contra scandal all over again. Perhaps they will dig up Oliver North to run the mission?
Best wishes, Pete.
He is not needed…there are enough sycophants in the admin to fill that bill chuq
The military effort has a far greater design than you imagine. Letting Iran, North Korea, Russia and China know that our military is not immobilized by the virus and that it has not diverted our attention from non related responsibilities. .
The world is fighting a disease,,,,,all countries and to flex war muscle is just a low point chuq
I suppose the Donald regime’s motto is “never let a crisis go to waste.” They’ve used the crisis in order to ramp up their economic wars against Venezuela and Iran.
Good Neocon strategy chuq