Following up on a $15 million bounty the US has placed on the head of Venezuela’s President Maduro, the Pentagon announced a substantial buildup of naval assets in the Caribbean, with a lot of the ships parked off the Venezuelan coast.
This is not unrelated to US hostility toward Maduro. Officially, the Pentagon says the ships are to engage in “counter-narcotics” operations, but they’ve also said that part of the goal is to cut off Maduro’s funds and increase pressure on him.
More military pressure is one thing, but the serious concern is an outright US invasion of Venezuela to try to impose regime change, mirroring the 1989 invasion of Panama to oust Manuel Noriega. That invasion was done on the pretext of the drug war, and with the blessing of Attorney General William Barr, who also provided the legal basis for the Maduro bounty.
The US has long said they won’t rule out a military solution to Venezuela, and after over a year of trying to oust Maduro through declarations, it may be that they are close to trying to apply the “Panama” solution.
Will we seize container ships carrying legitimate cargo because it is under our sanctions? That is more possible than an invasion, especially because of the precedent we set by telling the British to seize the Iranian tanker at Gibraltar.
The ships should request escort from the country sending the cargo,with a warning that if American or British ships try to interdict they will be fired on.
When Manuel Noriega was on the CIA payroll, how much did they pay him?
They paid him with cocaine, of which they had lots.
In the middle of a world pandemic we have the time for THIS?
The US will always have time to try to impose its will on other countries. World’s biggest bully!
THEY have plenty of time for this. WE are legally bound to allow them, our REPRESENTATIVES, the power of force. It’s called FREEDOM. haha.
One day Americans might wake up and see how little “freedom” they actually have. But they have the freedom to go without healthcare and the freedom to eat from food banks.
Venezuela and Iran should form a pact: Invade one Third World country, get a second war free. Together I honestly think they could take us.
US warmongering continues amid pandemic.
Read Maduro’s April 3rd letter to the American people here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1246832744493129733