Monday’s written note by John Bolton reading “5,000 troops to Colombia”
is very much on the table, according to the Trump Administration.
Officials are quick to insist that all options are on the table, and that must be too.
Pentagon officials refused to rule out this major deployment to South America. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan saying that he hadn’t specifically discussed the idea with John Bolton. Bolton says he wouldn’t rule out such a move.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speculated that
Bolton was “sending a message” to Venezuela with the note. The message
apparently was intended to be above and beyond the repeated US threats
of military action already.
The one nation that’s apparently completely out of the loop on this is Colombia, as their foreign minister says he has no idea what the note “5,000 troops to Colombia” could mean,
while saying Colombia would continue to support the demands for new
elections in Venezuela, which is what the US is demanding.
I don’t take any note pads seriously until they actually do deploy troops. In the mean time, Russian truthers need to put a sock in it.
Yup, just like there is no reason to believe “troop withdrawals” until some troop comes home (back to US) from well, somewhere or anywhere.
US Diplomacy = pressure, threats of sanctions, ultimatums, punishments, economic warfare, all options on the table, seizure, assassinations, coup d’etat, blockade, attacks, invasions, destructions, war.
We have a long history of that.
Sadly.
So true, Jim, that’s exactly what US diplomacy’s all about. It’s been that way since 1898.
Bonkers Bolton and Pompous Pompass should’ve been fired a month ago for undercutting Trump’s agenda of withdrawing all US troops from Syria and gradual withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. They’re both traitors and should be arrested and charged accordingly.
Agree. i read that Tillerson in 2017 wanted to apoint Abram as deputy sec. of state, but Trump was against it. So Pompous got him in. It was a farce seeing Abram at the UN security counsil on Saturday lecturing about democracy.
That number is about what we’d send to begin bombing. It is an airbase and aircraft.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venzuela-chavez/venezuela-buys-powerful-missiles-with-russian-loan-idUSTRE58C1YR20090914
More behind the scenes stuff. I doubt any troops will be used since this is a spook/industry/CIA misadventure.
https://youtu.be/87Hc1Bs8OXg
This is why I laugh at libertarians who think the government actually matters when it comes to who runs the world…….
The smart libertarians realize that there is little distinction between big business and big government. You can’t maintain one without the other. The smart libertarians are anarchists.
Would we be so warmongerish and understanding if a lower level Russian Adviser to Putin conscientiously flaunted a piece of paper with large lettering that said, “50,000 troops to Ukraine”?
He’s just trying to act tough for the media. Five thousand troops is a meaningless fantasy number. What is he going to do with them? Invade Venezuela? That’s not even remotely feasible. Is he going to arm the “Free Venezuelan Army” and send in “advisors”? That worked out so well everywhere else, yeah, lets do it again…
My assumption is that that number showed up on that notepad in that venue and in those hands for the express and intentional purpose of trolling people who would freak out over it.
But on the exceedingly slim chance that that’s not true, it could have been something as simple as “I was asked how many troops would be needed to conduct a force/equipment audit and feasibility study on implementing existing operational plans for military intervention in Venezuela within a given timeframe; I called someone at the Pentagon, and jotted down the number he gave me.”
Here s a good article and video from the real news.
https://therealnews.com/stories/many-countries-at-un-oppose-trump-interference-in-venezuela