The US military has been planning for months, if not years, to do “what
needs to be done” against Venezuela, which is almost certainly some sort
of military aggression aimed at regime change. Socom Chief Admiral
Craig Faller announced this week that the Navy is now “ready.”
Admiral Faller said he wouldn’t provide “details of what we’re planning and what we’re doing, but we remain ready to implement policy decisions,” adding that he is confident that the Navy can act whenever ordered.
It isn’t entirely clear if the admiral is suggesting that the Navy was
gear up for an existing plan, or is just ready for whatever the
administration decides to try. This comes not long after President Trump
confirmed he was considering a full naval blockade of the entire
Venezuelan coast.
Faller bragged that the US Navy “is the most powerful navy in the
world,” and would be able to do what it was to be sent to do. While he
isn’t cluing anyone in on what that might be, his comments suggest
action is likely to be sooner, not later.
Why should the Navy have to tell us it’s ready to move on Venezuela? Shouldn’t the Navy be ready for war at a moment’s notice? Do something or don’t, but stop with the constant political theater and high drama.
Do something or don’t? The do something part would be an act of terror against the Venezuelan people.
Just let them try to stop a Chinese oil tanker on the high seas. The Yakhonts, they will be aflying. The aircraft carrier USS Sitting Duck is headed for the bottom.
The admirals know they’re screwed. That’s why they have to play the blow-fish. Real power speaks softly. There’s a reason why our empire is helmed by a blowhard as we sink to the bottom of the big blue sea.
The US navy is as ready to attack innocent civilians world-wide as is the rest of the US.
US citizens are so afraid of Venezuela’s more advanced democracy utilizing a seven facet government that they want to destroy innocent families and steal Venezuelan’s resources for rich oligarchs like Trump, Walmart and Koch.
You have a valid point here, Garrett, and I fully agree. Adm. Craig Faller’s nothing but a warmonger .. He sits behind a desk and bloviates about the US Navy’s readiness to wage war on Venezuela – for what? Oil? We have lots of oil right here in the US, so there’s no reason to harm the Venezuelan people in any way.
What the US Gov’t must do is repair our crumbling infrastructure and secure our border with Mexico, not destroy innocent families around the world, including Venezuela.
In 2016, DJT campaigned as a peace candidate and was elected as such; and he even stated in his Inaugural speech that he wouldn’t start any wars. He knows that if he starts even just one war, he’s toast (he won’t win in 2020).
“In 2016, DJT campaigned as a peace candidate and was elected as such; and he even stated in his Inaugural speech that he wouldn’t start any wars.”
But he didn’t have a problem getting involved in the wars already in progress and I mean right away. He approved the raid in Yemen, that originated during Obama’s time, just days after taking office. That’s the one where the Navy SEAL got killed and Trump used his widow as a prop when he addressed congress.
He wasn’t elected as a peace candidate. He was elected because so many people have a visceral dislike of Hillary Clinton, and he still lost the popular vote by three million.
He speaks out of both sides of his mouth, so the anti war crowd could cherry pick quotes, and so could the interventionist. Trump famously bragged that he was the most warlike of the candidates on stage during the GOP primary debates back in ’16. Does that sound like peace to you?
How dare Venezuela tell us to mind our own business, and Venezuelans reject the USA’s hand picked puppet?
I bet Trump could win this easily, he just doesn’t feel like killing the ten million people that would require. Non-nuclear, of course.
It’s still pending upon the hotel and golf course offer he left them with.
Bolsonaro clear cuts 3 football fields a minute of Amazonian rain forest for the corporations and there’s 70,000 arsonist-set fires raging in the world’s most precious ecological resource, so the USA wants to turn Venezuela into Brazil. Makes sense, once you realize the USA is controlled by implacable evil.
And that is regardless of which major party is in power….
Best thing I’ve read all week.
Doesn’t Congress have to vote to declare war?
We don’t live in a democracy.
Because you all remember when they attacked us…..right??? The Empire NEEDS TO GO!!!
Arrogant c…t