Is the plan to eliminate Venezuela’s leadership finally coming together?
President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown up a small motor vessel in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. He alleged that the skiff came from Venezuela and was loaded with illicit drugs headed to the US.
On social media, he further embellished his story by saying that the crew were members of the Tren de Aragua cartel, which Trump claims is controlled by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Trump alleges that this cartel is “responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence across the US.”
…
All the elements, especially US impunity, are in place to eventually attempt a decapitation strike eliminating the South American nation’s leadership.
Trump ominously boasted at his press conference “there is more where that came from” for Venezuela. Just four days earlier, Washington’s “historic partner” Israel had assassinated the Yemeni prime minister and his civilian cabinet. Arguably, the word “partner” understates the intimate level of integration between the two. The Israelis have been perpetrating a live-streamed genocide in Gaza for over 700 days while receiving daily airlifts of military supplies under both Biden and Trump.
As usual the Congress is asleep at the wheel…..a position they relish for they do not have to do anything just a nod and collect their rewards….
Military tensions in the southern Caribbean have rapidly grown following President Trump’s decision to launch an airstrike on a boat allegedly smuggling drugs near Venezuela. As the U.S. announced the deployment of 10 F-35 fighter jets to bolster its forces in the region, a pair of Venezuelan planes flew over an American warship in a move that the Pentagon described as “highly provocative.”
All evidence suggests that a broader military operation could be in the offing. Last Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged to continue the attacks and said regional governments “will help us find these people and blow them up.”
Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, asked whether the end goal is regime change in Venezuela, told Fox and Friends that the Pentagon is “prepared with every asset that the American military has” should Trump choose to move forward with such an operation.
The rapid escalation seems to have put Congress on the back foot. While many lawmakers moved quickly to condemn Trump’s attacks on Iran earlier this year, strikingly few members of Congress have shown the same level of enthusiasm when it comes to Venezuela.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/venezuela-war/
People you do realize that Donny does not care about some illegal drug problem…..it is nothing more than an excuse for his actions.
Once again the US will go into the breach simply for regime change….been done before and did not always end well….how about this time?
How many American lives is this adventurism worth?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Sudetenland revisited
I’ll have to Czech on that. chuq
“Military tensions in the southern Caribbean have rapidly grown following President Trump’s decision to launch an airstrike…”
Aw gee, ain’t dat too bad. I hope they bomb them all to death including in Mexico and Coumbia and such. We ought to be celebrating this ‘military effort” and may it continue unrelentlessly. The poisoning of America , I suppose, is not a murderous war against American citizens esp fueled by China ? Why are critics so dismissive of the murder of Americans with drugs ? I recall Reagan exerercised a strike in Panama and even arrested their drug lord presedent N for trial and prison.
Who the Hell are you? And those that decide to buy drugs have no part in their death…..chuq
You think they have a plan? Oh my, you give them far more credit than they deserve. Look at who’s running this fiasco over in DC. My cats are better at making plans then that bunch over there.
I agree but somewhere in the wings are those little creeps from Heritage that come up with these idiotic programs. chuq
Ah, you do have a point there. He and all of the people he’s placed in position of power are all the type of persons who are easily manipulated. Except when he’s having one of his emotional outbursts, everything he does is being influenced by people behind the scenes who are controlling the information being fed to him.
He eats up BS as fast as he eats up a Big Mac. chuq
His personal insecurities continue to put the rest of us in peril.
And it just deeps getting deeper…..chuq