A good question….for eventually Israel will have enough of the their blood lust and this mash-up in Gaza will come to an end.

Where will the War Department decide to focus their attention?

Will we return to the days of all out Ukraine support?

Of course there is always the situation in the South China Sea and Taiwan for the funnel to widen.

Or will the War Department look for another budding conflict to make worse?

Another?

Yeah, look no further than South America.

But where?

Venezuela.

They have been on the US shit list for decades because of their elections and now there seems to be a budding mash-up that could turn profitable for someone.

Venezuela has long maintained that a decision taken in 1899 by an international arbitral tribunal to award it to Britain, the colonial power which at the time ruled over Guyana, was unfair.

The matter is currently before the International Court of Justice, although Venezuela has disputed the international court’s authority to rule on the Essequibo dispute.

In the referendum, the Venezuelan government asked voters to back its stance on the dispute.

The most controversial question was the fifth, which asked Venezuelans if they agreed with “the creation of the Guayana Esequiba state” and its “incorporation into the map of Venezuelan territory”.

Electoral officials said 95.9% of voters cast a “yes” vote to that question.

Guyana has denounced the proposal as an attempt at annexation and President Irfaan Ali has accused his Venezuelan counterpart of fomenting conflict by calling for the referendum.

President Maduro hailed the results as “an overwhelming victory”. “We have taken the first steps of a new historic stage in the struggle for what belongs to us, to recover what the liberators left us,” he said.

The overwhelming support shown by voters had been widely expected as Venezuela’s claim of sovereignty over Essequibo has very broad support in the country.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67610200

Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali said his government is working continuously to ensure the country’s borders “remain intact” and said people have “nothing to fear over the next number of hours, days, months ahead”.

Will this be a war of words or will it somehow become more and then more?

I have a radical idea….if a country cannot afford to fight a war maybe a different approach is called for….but that is just me.

This possible mash-up sounds similar to Eastern Ukraine a few years back.

Interesting….no?

If the US gets involved in this potential situation you can bet that or whoever will invoke the Monroe Doctrine (a post to follow).

Update:  As if right on cue….the US gets involved….

The US military said Thursday that it would conduct flight operations in Guyana amid tensions between the Caribbean nation and its neighbor Venezuela over the disputed Guayana Esequiba region.

Guayana Esequiba is an oil-rich region that makes up about two-thirds of the territory of the state of Guyana, which gained independence from Britain in 1966. In 1899, an American-British tribunal ruled that the territory belonged to the UK, a position that was rejected by Venezuela.

The US is backing Guyana in the dispute, which Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed in a phone call with Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday. According to the State Department, Blinken said the two sides should respect the 1899 ruling “unless, or until, the parties reach a new agreement, or a competent legal body decides otherwise.”

According to the US Embassy in Guyana, US Southern Command planned to conduct flights with the Guyanese military on Thursday. “This exercise builds upon routine engagement and operations to enhance (the) security partnership between the United States and Guyana and to strengthen regional cooperation,” the embassy said.

(antiwar.com)

Finally Exxon is drooling over this situation.

ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in South America

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