Citing the US desire to increase pressure “against the Venezuelan leadership folks,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that in the days to come, the administration will announce a series of actions against Venezuela.
Pompeo declined to offer any specifics, which is probably going to lead to speculation of something major coming, since recent reports of US policy toward Venezuela has been uniformly hostile.
President Trump threatened to attack Venezuela back in August of 2017, and this summer reports are that he’d repeatedly had to be talked out of such attacks. Early this month, the administration was confirmed to be engaging in secret coup talks with Venezuelan rebels.
None of this is to say that the new actions are liable to be anything so grand. The fact that the US has been known to be talking about such measures, however, is likely to add to serious concerns about US intentions ahead of any announcements.
Is there any country in the world that the USA considers needs no input from the Big Bully? (Israel of course is bombarded gently with cash and the Saudis with weapons to use to kill innocents).
Why are we adding to poor Venezuela’s problems? I guess because, the 1% in America would prefer to starve a bunch of poor Latinos, before Americans get any bright ideas about raising wages/taxes. Better for death to the “socialist” serfs than that some “deserving” person has to go without their little cruises or new private jet planes.
Listening to the news one would think that the Trump Disorder Crew have enough strife, loss and legal problems so they would avoid any new confrontations! Apparently not as they seem he’ll bent on pis sing off whole continents with their reckless aggressions.
The story I like best is sanctioning the Chinese for buying Russian arms. Who the heck do we think we are? Sooner or later the world is gonna tell us to “shove it” and that will be good for everybody, except Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
The proven oil reserves in Venezuela are recognized as the largest in the world, totaling 297 billion barrels. . . .’Nuff said.
Years ago when I was involved with Vietnam there was “MAC-V,” Military Assistance Command Vietnam. A fellow Hispanic soldier and I would joke that the “V” would soon stand for Venezuela because that country wasn’t acceptable to the US even back then. So here we go again, with another government not pleasing to US corporate interests.
I am trying to figure the neo con stupidity test here:
1. Israeli directive? No, not likely.
2. Corporate/wall street greed? could be, brazil, argentina, ecudor good examples.
3. Oil reserves to be tapped? ah, that is prob the main reason-thanks, don bacon-watch for us oil companies scratching away for regime change/new contracts, ala ukraine.
4. Watch rubio’s activities, who is funding him via open secrets.org
Many US corporations have left Venezuela due to the worsening economy, and there is a risk of expropriation to those remaining. And guess who’s riding to the rescue? . . .China.
. . .from scmp:
China already operates 2 out of the 5 major ports in the Panama Canal area, and now it’s moving into nearby Venezuela? . . .The US can’t accept that. How about the Monroe Doctrine? So it’s regime change time, something the US excels in (but then suffers from).
I am not sure I understand your point. China or anybody can and should “move” in, that is to say trade, invest, build. For as long as the country — in this case Venezuela, agrees. As for US, after all these years of paying for regime change, and having no sucess in fixing their dlections — all it can do is issue direct threats. Why? Why is it that we cannot do business with countries that are politically independent of our financial/corporate spiderwebs? Something is wrong here. For the sake of those that want to crush less obedient “regimes”, we — that is, our economy — is paying the price. Now the neocon infrastructure — financial spiderweb — is reaching into our pockets to soendvmoney on the whole array of political/media/military aggression. Smart way to make money for some, but bad for our country. These people are addicted to easy money that foreign agression pumps into their pockets.
My point is that US foreign enemy #1 is financially moving big-time into a country in an area where the US has historically been the boss, which has lead to “US Preparing a ‘Series of Actions’.” Oh … and the oil.
Hate, hate, hate. To the rest of the world, that is what the United States represents. The crazies in Washington hate every country that doesn’t toe the line…the U.S. line.
Chief of Staff John Kelly…was commander of SOUTHCOM, area…Central America, South America, Caribbean, from 2012 until appointed CoS “under” trump. He is (was ?) also on the board of directors for what was formerly called the School of the Americas. Not a good guy. I imagine he is remaining in the administration to implement nastiness in the SOUTHCOM area.
Let the South American countries,
and China if it is crazy enough,
try to straighten out Venezuela.
Not our business.
China does business differently than the US, and doesn’t interfere in domestic affairs,
The Philippines, Nepal, Vietnam, India, Taiwan and Japan disagree.