Distraction? Trump Sends Warships To Venezuela

[Cap]

April 2 - In a shocking press conference yesterday, President Trump and his advisors announced that the US military would begin conducting a "counter-narcotics operation" in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean. Perhaps not coincidentally, Trump's Justice Department indicted Venezuelan president Maduro on drug trafficking charges. Is the US about to "do a Noriega" on Maduro based on half-baked charged that the Venezuelan leader is some kind of drug kingpin? Have the president's war-braying neocons convinced him that the best thing to get our minds off of coronavirus is a "nice little war"?

 

[Cap]

Let's be real, this latest implied move of aggression by the Trump administration, towards a sovereign nation, is all about the oil. Russia after all, effectively nullified Trump's Venezuela sanctions against oil company Rosnet, by transferring the Rosnet oil company assets in Venezuela to a company fully owned by the Russian government (Ron points this out). Looks like Putin plays 3d chess also.

 

[idiom]

Aren't y'all drowning in oil right now?

 

[osan]

Humans are a hopeless breed.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Piracy has been increasing in the Caribbean basin for years now, as Venezuela collapses.

https://www.businessinsider.com/pirate-attacks-in-gulf-of-mexico-related-to-fuel-theft-2019-11

https://nypost.com/2018/05/23/pirate-attacks-are-on-the-rise-throughout-the-caribbean/

This is direct threat to myself and my operations.

Since I am disarmed by various legal and civil restrictions while onboard and while I pay incredible amounts of taxes to support a navy, whose job it is to, among other things, protect US commerce on the oceans of the world, I have no issue with this.