Officials say that President Trump has repeatedly raised the idea of a
full naval blockade being imposed on Venezuela for at least the last
year and a half as a way of trying to impose regime change, saying the US Navy could prevent all ships from entering and exiting the large South American country.
One person was quoted as saying that in recent weeks, Trump said “we
should get the ships out there” and “prevent anything going in.” Trump
has confirmed to the media that a blockade is “an option.”
Officially there is not a full naval blockade yet, though the US has
made efforts to prevent shipments to Venezuela, and earlier this week
was reported to have seized a ship full of food to prevent it getting to
Venezuela.
Trump backed regime change in Venezuela at the start of the year, and
continues to insist that the opposition is the rightful government, even
though in practice, that has not actually happened.
I am a bit confused in all of this, so please tell me the truth so I can understand fully what is going on between the United States Government and that of Venezuela. A report of a study made, I believe, within the last year (2018) that reported that the largest oil reserves on planet Earth right now is not Saudi Arabia, nor Iran, Iraq, or even Nigeria. Guess where those largest oil reserves are located ? Yes, in Venezuela ! So we have had sanctions on that country for some time now, right ? AND, we want to increase those sanctions, and President Trump did indeed increase them recently, right ? AND he wanted to send ground troops into Venezuela because President Maduro of that country was starving his people and we (the U.S.) have appointed a new President for that country, right ? And a few days ago I read that we (the U.S.) have captured a ship in the Panama Canal (that we no longer own) that was shipping food stuffs to Venezuela ! This rocket science stuff is getting to me, I think I need to go on some kind of drugs (which I don’t use) to clear up my over-taxed confused mind ! This Venezuela stuff reminds me so much of what we did to the Libyan people in 2011 ! Is this de-ja vu all over again ?
The US has an interesting “strategy” of helping starving Venezuelan people by preventing shipment of food to them. Still trying to get a handle on the logic of the operation.
You have to break a few eggs to steal an omelette.
Once you realize the U.S. hasn’t had a real President since 11/22/63, it all becomes much clearer.
Or perhaps that was when real presidents were barred from office.
It wouldn’t surprise me to find out quite a few before Kennedy where totally subservient to the mob, but I agree with you in general.
There seems to be a long history of influence over the executive branch. It seems to be more about the consolidation of different factions over policy that allows for corporate control over large swaths of other people’s land and resources.
The moral failure of the elite has dogged us for centuries now. There is no end to their greed and ego until we refuse acknowledge their “elite” status.
Just imagine if they ploughed all the money they’re going to be pissing away, on solar and wind energy. Oh wait, I forgot, Trump is a moron who thinks that if the wind isn’t blowing, you can’t watch teevee.
Which wind, his ? He may as well “break” it for what good he is doing for us.
Simple really, imagine forcing a young child to stick a fork in a wall socket, then imagine enjoying the result.
You may want to add a puddle of water to that scenario Dave.
Beside the Oil, there’s an election coming up- if Trump starves Venezuelans to the point that families flee to the United States, he can protect real Americans from the invading brown hoards: wall ’em out and put ’em in cages…
It’s good optics, as far as Trump is concerned. Rallies his base.
It’s the same shit show that has been going on for centuries except cell phone camera’s won’t allow the useful idiots of the ruling elite to easily lie to the demos.
You’re watching the top fighting over a new pecking order amongst themselves while they, (as usual) use the poor to kill the poor until one of them blinks. The sad part is that they inbreed, and only appoint the most sociopathic/psychopathic among themselves to rule.
Another hard day on the planet thanks to mental illness, inbreeding, and the ego of the elite who believe they are entitled to the lions share of everything because they say so.
Wonderful, let’s continue to overextend the troops and keep them in harm’s way. Maga or whatever. After all, they’re clearly out to get the USA.
Mork, are you married to Mindy ? I got too deep into the belly of the beast during the 1970s and got out of there as I could see all of this coming and I didn’t want to be a part of The Death of the United States of America ! Maybe I could fight it better from out here, but the Dumbing Down of America, as Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt says in her 1999 book “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” has taken its toll on the last couple of generations of our people and made my “fight” a bit too difficult to win !
What was the kid’s(Johnathan Winters)name in the show?
Are you referring to the Mork and Mindy Show ? I never watched it, so any kid on it would be unknown to me unless someone told me about it. I quit going to the movies in 1965 and I have a very limited TV time. I used to watch shows like “Gunsmoke” and a few other Westerns and once the 1960s destroyed our culture I really lost interest in all of that. I spend most of my time reading books. In case anyone thinks I am a disloyal American and should leave the country, I am a Vietnam Veteran, having served 20 years in the USAF and really love my country, but I don’t agree with the mostly foreign owned Federal Reserve Banking System which literally owns our government. It is that which needs to be changed, and I view Anti-War.com as a good start to get that done. It is all about education ! education ! education !
Amen. Brother!!
China mulls naval blockade of Hong Kong.
Loves torture.
Loves sanctions(and then some).
Loves military parades and military toys.
Loves our offshore gulag and wants to fill it up.
Loves blockades.
Loves war criminals.
Loves Bolton, Pompeo and Haspel.
Loves Israel and Bibi.
And of course, loves himself.
MAGA.
Trump 2020.
…or whatever other shit sandwich is on the menu.
Vote harder folks, I’m sure they can afford some mustard to help mask the taste. They’ve already taught us to hold our noses.
Outgoing Exxon tankers will be exempted.
Making Amurica great one starving child at a time again.
The US did not seize the food ship. That would be a very different action and a clear escalation to a dangerous new phase.
What the US did was to threaten sanctions on the bank and insurance company the ship was using. They backed away, and the ship was left stranded. That isn’t a seizure, nor a blockade. It is what sanctions do.
The blockade now being threatened is an act of war, just like bombing. It is war for regime change. Even those in the Americas who agree about Maduro don’t want to see US war on one of their own. The US would be without friends in that action.
Sanctions on banks, etc., still, in the end, enforced with the gun.
Just when you think Trump might have legitamacy, he acts all Orange Clown again. What an idiot.
What did he do to make you think he had legitimacy? Recently?
Hasn’t started a hot War. Market is high, dollar strong. Rhetoric for White Americans. Hated by Commie Libtards and Commie terrorists. Doesn’t kiss British ass.
I know he’s mostly gone back on promises. And he seems like a Big Liar. But I don’t see any heros out there. When they come for US guns– it’s go time.
I really don’t know what is meant by “rhetoric for white Americans”. And I really don’t know if I want to know.
He can’t start a hot war since we don’t have the troops to fight one.
The “market” is fraud and the dollar has depreciated by over 90% over the last 100 yrs, so trying to say the economy is good is BS.
Please explain what is communist about present day America where the top .001% own(privately) almost all of the new GDP and have quadrupled their(private) wealth over the last 40 years……
Your little pea shooters have done absolutely nothing to stop the loss of habeas corpus or posse comitatus, so please explain how they are going to stop the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, National Guard, or the state, local, federal law enforcement from continuing their assault upon civil liberties, law and order, and virtue of any sort.
You can’t outdo the state when it comes to violence, you can only justify turning America into another Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, etc…….It’s now perfectly legal for them to do so.
The NRA and it’s blind faith followers have gotten enough folks killed with it’s corporate fascist rhetoric. Just look at who actually profits from allowing anyone with a pulse access to weapons capable of killing dozens at one time, and who ends up paying the cost of that profit over people policy.
Anyone that can’t spell their own name or tie their own shoes should not be allowed to own or operate a gun.
Anyone that has been proven to be violent outside of the law, or mentally unstable to the point of violence should not be allowed to own or operate a gun.
The mentality pushed by the gun lobby is immoral and geared solely towards the corporate interests who took over the NRA in the 1970s.
Trump is neither the problem or the solution. He’s a worthless trust fund baby conman, who’s spent his entire life trying to be one of the elites. He’s screwed over anyone he can in order to make back his daddies money that he lost soon after the old racist asshole died.
He’s an unvarnished version of the elites, who is famous for not paying his bills, lying, cheating, and having a close association with the mob.
There’s nothing good about making this turd seem legitimate. https://media3.giphy.com/media/wofftnAdDtx4s/giphy.gif
Ha! That’s a good one.
Um, you know that .001% you mentioned? Those are the Communists.
I believe US is a Communist Dictatorship. The real rulers of US don’t change. They buy and sell politicians. Without guns, the people are nothing. You can’t even protect your house from criminals.
I could wax on, but I have to tap this out on my phone. / I appreciate your point, and the gif is great. / Free speech, guns, free press, and merciless punishment for repeat violent offenders./ Minorities have no more rights than anybody else. Ugly men should not be allowed to wear women’s clothing in public. Stop all immigration. And above all, have a great day. Bye now.
Really ?? You actually believe they want to split everything up evenly with you ? That’s hilarious !
You may want to educate yourself about communism before repeating fox news and bank lobbyist talking points…..
Everyone you are accusing are and always have been capitalists, because they control the capital and will kill you if you object to their PRIVATE ownership and manipulation of it, in order to EXPLOIT you and keep you powerless.
Capitalism is exploitation and cannot work without it..
You are a slave to capital and the violence it can afford to pay for, due to it’s exploitation of the many by the few.
Remember, capitalism was spawned by feudalism and the right of kings. Just as the conservative movement that was spawned in order to try to preserve it.
If you really want to become captive labor and end free movement around the planet, you’re just another useful idiot of the elite who want to divide up the planet into corporate industrial zones and rule via debt peonage and slave labor backed by violence payed for with their capital that you can’t ever match.
Boy, you whip out that keyboard like a Colt 45. Obtw. I gotta dusty old university diploma from SUNY says History. Specifically, Russia and China history -Socialism and communism. But, I guess I’ve forgotten a lot. Please teach me, Keyboard Master.
Capitalism is the monopoly game. Just ask Warren. Monopoly is communism in drag.
When was capitalism not monopoly ?
Who writes history, the winners or the losers ?
Would that be a diploma via the same educational system the CIA has been salting for years now ?
communism :
“A theoretical economic system
characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the
organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
A system of government in
which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often
authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a
higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people”
I hate to break it to you but the state doesn’t own much any more. Corporations owned by shareholders privately own and control more and more every day.
We have privatized the postal system, schools, municipalities, and now there’s an effort ongoing by yet another trust fund baby to privatize the illegal wars that keep getting politicians voted out of office.
Ask any Rockefeller(or Bezos) about having access to credit to the point of losing money until all your competition goes out of business.
You live in inverted totalitarianism hidden behind a controlled democracy.
All economic systems designed by the elite benefit the elite more than everyone else.
Keeping people fighting over which insufficient system is best is how you stay elite. If no consensus or unity among the masses is allowed to exist, then guess who gets to control the economy and therefor society ??
“the dollar has depreciated by over 90% over the last 100 yrs, so trying to say the economy is good is BS.”
Wait … aren’t you the guy who, per Modern Monetary “Theory,” holds that those dollars are just meaningless book-keeping entries? How could meaningless book-keeping entries affect the economy in any way?
I don’t remember saying they are meaningless, I do however remember pointing out to you former Ronnie Ray-gun, and Ron Paul fans how taxes destroy all that “printed money” you’ve been bawling about for decades now.
This system relies upon trust and unfortunately you cannot trust the elite who are in charge of the money supply.
You’ll also note that the state doesn’t get to keep the currency created by the state used to loot and pillage the rest of the planet in order to keep the top on top.
When you have billions upon billions of dollars, depreciation doesn’t bother you nearly as much as those who cannot withstand a $500 emergency.
We are living through the revenge of the elite capitalist trust fund baby’s and their dead daddy or grandparents law firms.
Buckle up buttercup, debt peonage is just around the corner unless we stand up to these entitled little twats.
We cannot afford the super rich anymore.
Once again – the goal is to get people used to the idea of a blockade – which Trump will then try with Iran – which is what the fuss over the Iranian oil tanker is all about. It’s all a PR move to get the US electorate used to the idea that the US can just impose a blockade on anyone they want regardless of the fact that it is an act of war.
I will stop regime change wars. Candidate Donald Trump. Let’s change the Government in Venezuela. President (and LIAR) Donald Trump.
someone needs to inform trump he is NOT world emperor except in his own feeble mind. smh. what an ongoing embarrassment this idiot is.