Ummmmmmmmmmmm.
Is Trump going to invade Venezuela???
Stakes rise as Trump deploys world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Caribbean
Expert says military action may be ‘imminent’ in Venezuela, while others suspect deployment is a negotiating tactic
Two months ago Story, who was Washington’s top diplomat for Venezuelafrom 2018 to 2023, saw only a 10% chance of some kind of US attack on Venezuelan soil and an 80% chance that Trump’s gambit would come to nothing. Now, he said he was 80% sure things would evolve into some kind of military action and saw only a 20% chance the status quo would hold.
…that’s an enormous amount of firepower for just a negotiating tactic.
Look, I have very little time or sympathy for Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro.
I’m all for Socialist Revolution, but to then use the State to murder, torture strangle free and fair elections, create an economic collapse that sees the largest refugee exoduses in Latin American history alongside Repression of Civil Society and the Press?
That’s not my kind of Revolution comrades!
I like a consensual Revolution.
Maduro’s regime has serious questions to answer for the way he has abused his own people, of that there can be little doubt HOWEVER that doesn’t in any way shape or form justify what Trump is embarking upon here.
Trump is attacking any boat he suspects of drug trafficking and using military level violence to simply blow those boats up with zero legal evidence or process whatsoever.
Those are extrajudicial assassinations, that’s not Justice.
Trump’s build up of military is unacceptable.
Trump’s extrajudicial assassinations are unacceptable.
Trump’s use of the CIA to undermine Maduro’s regime is unacceptable.
This matters because America is now doing this in the Pacific, OUR pacific…
US strikes two more alleged drug-carrying boats, this time in the Pacific Ocean
The U.S. military on Wednesday launched its ninth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing three people in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, expanding the Trump administration’s campaign against drug trafficking in South America.
It followed another strike Tuesday night, also in the eastern Pacific, that killed two people, Hegseth posted on social media hours earlier. The attacks were departures from the seven previous U.S. strikes that had targeted vessels in the Caribbean Sea. They bring the death toll to at least 37 from attacks that began last month.
The strikes represent an expansion of the military’s targeting area as well as a shift to the waters off South America where much of the cocaine from the world’s largest producers is smuggled. Hegseth’s social media posts also drew a direct comparison between the war on terrorism that the U.S. declared after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the Trump administration’s crackdown.
…14% of the US Navy fleet is off the coast of Venezuela!
Now with the arrival of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, all the chess pieces are on the board and they are simply awaiting for Trump’s order to attack.
Maduro certainly has crimes to answer for, but that is for the Venezuelan people to decide, it is utterly inappropriate in the extreme that Trump gets involved.
Trump has no authority here, the claim that he’s stopping terrorists from bringing drugs into America is farcical when you consider alcohol kills more people in America than all drugs combined.
It is farcical when you consider 20% of over doses are from legal prescriptions and it is farcical when so many American’s dying from Fentanyl got their first taste on legally prescribed Oxycodone and Hydrocodone!
If Trump cared about drug over dosses he would crack down on booze, legal heroin and provide public health, instead he sends a fucking Carrier Strike Group to bomb speedboats and over throw a regime he doesn’t like!
It’s so difficult to keep up with all the crazy Trump is unleashing, that invading Venezuela gets missed.
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May we cut to the chase here? Does this already sick world need another warmonger?Trump is totally “unacceptable” and completely “insane”. He is a criminal and if he wasn’t President of the USA he’d be in jail now! Two wrongs don’t make a right. He’s no better than Netanyahu – they are both MONSTERS!
May we cut to the chase here? Does this already sick world need another warmonger?Trump is totally “unacceptable” and completely “insane”. He is a criminal and if he wasn’t President of the USA he’d be in jail now! Two wrongs don’t make a right. He’s no better than Netanyahu – they are both MONSTERS!
Team America: World Police – at your service.
Please note: payment for services rendered may be made in the form of the blood of your citizens, or your oil & gas reserves.
Have a nice day.
Consensual revolution might be the dumbest phrase ever uttered. “A revolution is not a dinner party. A revolution is the violent, messy, and brutal overthrow of one class by another.” (Mao)
To say it simply. “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable.” (Marx)
Consensual revolution is bullshit. Violent revolution is the only way we can win. Venezuela is going to win- the Bolivarian revolution— a socialist one, with the support of the masses.
There is no middle way to liberation. You cannot vote your way into freedom. You have to fight for it. Freedom doesn’t mean a red flag from the mast.
I’m all for Socialist Revolution, but to then use the State to murder, torture strangle free and fair elections
– total nonsense, Venezuela’s elections have always been praised by independent election observers
create an economic collapse that sees the largest refugee exoduses in Latin American history
– ah, you mean like when the USA bans all Western companies from selling replacement parts for their industry, and banks from even processing transactions to buy their oil? Yeah bro. That’s DEFINITELY the legitimate Venezuelan government’s fault.
alongside Repression of Civil Society and the Press
– if you mean ‘Civil Society’ in the sense of ‘scum who organize violent coups to overthrow the legitimate government’, like Maria Machado, sure.
And that repression is very, very good, and should happen everywhere, including in New Zealand. American-loving traitors don’t deserve to spread their venom. They should be stomped out.
” I like a consensual Revolution ”
We had one of those in 1984 and it’s still going.
Expert says military action may be ‘imminent’ in Venezuela, while others suspect deployment is a negotiating tactic.
Or a well timed diversion from the Epstein diaries.
Not heard from one grieving relative that their poor husband/father/brother was an innocent fisherman on a speedboat in the middle of the Ocean going for a Sunday afternoon fish for dinner.
Therefore it is extremely likely these are narco terrorists who are guilty for +1,000% more death and misery than Al Quada, ISIS and Hamas put together. There is also reputable evidence that Maduro is aiding and benefiting for this type of activity.
Frank, if Trump was worried about drugs and wanted to have a meaningful impact he wouldn’t be going after Venezuela. You probably think he actually cared about the cost of living too. Why are there cheerleaders for Trump despite all the evidence? He’s a f’ing con artist
They are cheerleaders because Trump is immoral, a narcissist and corrupt, just to name a few, tell me I’m wrong?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/trump-gives-second-pardon-to-january-6-participant-is-accused-of-sending-signal-maga-is-above-the-law/WYW4AY5IINATXDARIBZAPT3HIY/
Septic Frank is so full of crap the he couldn’t stop it flowing from him if he tried
There is no proof that the murdered people on boats were committing crimes ,,,,,, apart from honest Donald Trump and other criminals around him saying so, Septic Frank eats up shit like that and then spills it back out again,. and again,, and again and again
It’s not 1000% likely that pooh brain Frank is going to dump some more posts with his shit-house thinking onto the Internet ,,,,,, shit in Guarantees shit out from Septic Frank ,,,, hes 100% full of it.
Despite your skepticism regarding Christianity (which is understandable with all the apostate versions that exist) the true version based on self sacrificing love is the only system that can bring genuine peace. The unfortunate reality is that many people don’t want to change mostly because they love themselves and/or their possessions and only care about a very limited group of people which is the best explanation I can think of to explain why the various extreme governments get some support.
Trump is full of it as usual. The drugs in the US are not coming from Venezuela.
Lets create a diversion away from the fails in Ukraine and the genocide i gazza and the west bank .
Well Gordon that diversion will probably be utilised for the Epstein files as well given what is trickling out ( ironic when Trump prefers a shower).
Has anyone else noticed that Megan Kelly is now embarrassing herself by justifying sleeping with minors, as “well she was almost legal”. Doesn’t that reek of contingency planning.
If Trump puts the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner into power in Venezuela, does he get to win the same prize next year?
Invade? Maybe.
Regime change that will result in a civil war so American oil companies can loot Venezuelan oil and gas reserves? Sure, why not? Its the American way…
Ummm – is Trump going to invade Venezuela?
One thing we do know for sure, is that if Trump does invade Venezuela, Ben Morgan won’t mention it, not even if tens of thousands of Venezuelans are being killed from the air with US bombs and missiles..