On Wednesday, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted an “off-the-record” event
during which a number of President Trump’s highest ranking advisers
discussed the possibility of a US military attack on Venezuela.
This included a number of State Department and National Security Council
officials, along with officials dispatched from Colombian and Brazilian
embassies. Representatives of US-backed Venezuelan opposition leader
Juan Guaido also took part.
Details of what was dismissed have not been disclosed, above and beyond
the general possibility of the US attacking Venezuela, and the different
options for ways the US could attack them going forward.
That the Trump Administration is considering attacking Venezuela as an
option is no secret, as they tell reporters that much at seemingly every
opportunity. That they are holding such events to discuss the details,
however, suggest a US war may be closer than anyone realizes.
The present CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists previously worked for Center for Strategic and International Studies!! This once great peace organization once in the hand of scientists has become a shill for the Empire, a repository of Russophobia and a place where sinecures are doled out to second rate imperial bureaucrats like the present CEO.
The Empire and its factories of misinformation corrupt everything in their path.
The Maduro regime in Venezuela is very bad, but American intervention would only make it worse. Stay out!
It is “so bad” directly from American intervention, that has been ongoing for decades. One cannot evaluate Maduro or Chavez without the context of global capitalist blackballing and intervention.
Attacking first is against the law. If Maduro were to shell an American warship we’d have more justification. Humanitarian Crisis is a slippery slope that should never be used as an excuse to kill.
Especially if the ones clamoring for war are the ones who creating the humanitarian crisis in the first place.
it wouldn’t be much of a war to take that weak country out.
Anyone who thinks “International Law” exists is a fool.
Spoken like a real live fascist.
Nah just someone who can deal with reality.
So, they want us to attack the nation with the largest pool of oil in the world for “humanitarian” reasons. The Maduro regime is very bad!
Meanwhile, another major oil producing nation, Saudi Arabia, oppresses its people, does chop-jobs on folks they don’t like, but also invests billions in Trump’s business empire, and will help bankroll the Palestinian “deal of the century”. That regime must be very good! We should sell them more weapons. Trump should fly over there again and stroke the King’s orb. This all makes perfect sense, right?
Trumpsters, including Justin, wake up! You’re being had by this con man once again, and this time it could turn into another no-win quagmire for the USA. The Chavistas in Venezuela will head back to the jungle and fight to the death to overthrow any stooge that Trump and his neocons put in place. They’ll have the whole world on their side, including Russia and China. They’ll also have international law on their side. Wake up, Trumpsters, before it’s too late!
I couldn’t agree more. I warned DJT in comments on this site and others against interfering in the domestic affairs of Venezuela, much, less, wage aggressive war against it. Russia already has a small contingent of contractors and military personnel in Caracas; and the evil troika of Pompous Pompeo, Bonkers Bolton and Creepy Demon Abrams think they can push Trump into attacking Venezuela? These 3 are traitors and mass murderers who belong in a Super Max Prison for life.
President Nicolas Maduro was democratically elected TWICE; so that means, the vast majority of Venezuelans prefer him over the impostor Juan Guaido.
If you look at it from a pure great power rivalry perspective, intervening in Venezuela is, for the US, 1000 times more defensible than intervening in Syria. And, no, that doesn’t make it morally right.
As far as sitting on a big pool of oil goes, Venezuela sits on a big pool of sludge, that when mixed with enough actual oil, can become useful. Saudi Arabia sits on an actual big pool of oil.
The world has more than enough petroleum.
I don’t see how this is relevant to my comment at all.
“Only an asshole gets killed over a car.” -Bud
Oil is death. Sure there’s prosperity and progress at first but there’s a nasty balloon payment on the back end. We make the payback worse the longer we take to crawl out of the tar pits. We should be embarrassed we are still addicted to something that’s killing us deader than Dillinger. Some sacrifice now will make a better future for our kids.
“Fuck the doomed!” -Richard M Nixon
Venezuela is protected by multiple nations just like Syria. Not a chance.
So we’re going to attack yet another nation that hasn’t attacked us, simply for what? Oil- again? Oh but Venezuela is socialist and that’s A Bad Thing that can’t be allowed to stand. Well, China and North Korea are Communist, so why haven’t we attacked them? Maybe because we’re afraid of hitting someone who can fight back.
Isnt catching people ” mulling over” killing a bunch of people the way we prefer to arrest mass shooters ?
If I were Russia, I would give Venezuela 5 anti-ship missles. If Venezuela is attacked, Maduro should take down a US aircraft carrier. Then Putin should back up the Venezuelan military with another 50,000 sniper rifles and more S300 SA missiles. Make the US decide if it wants another ruinous war.
$22 Trillion in debt!
Yet the USA continues to endlessly warmonger.
With over 700 bases worldwide and $722 Billion to be spent this year alone on the military its a breakneck race to overkill the people of earth.
Some sick people on Wall ST and in DC seem to be eager to bankrupt the country and lead it to a greater confrontation with powers that might finally challenge its exceptionalism.
Americans need to ask why?