The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela
Maduro’s alliances with those American foes presented a clear challenge to Trump’s revived Monroe Doctrine that America should control its own “backyard”. Now that he has waded in with a dramatic show of military force, the US president has the responsibility for what comes next.
Monroe Doctrine 2.0: Why Venezuela, Guyana and Colombia suddenly matter a lot
Strip away the rhetoric and Washington’s fixation on the northern rim of South America is about two things: who controls the hemisphere’s next decade of oil flows, and who controls the chokepoints and minerals that power modern industry.... See more
I've been doing some digging, and the real target of the Venezuela attack was not China, it was Cuba.
Here's it is:
First, we can probably assume that one of the key architects of this plan was Marco Rubio. Rubio is one of the smartest and most competent members of the current... See more
Yishanx.comThe opinion is significant, legal experts said, because it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review. Historically, those involved in drug trafficking were considered criminals with due process... See more
New from @hntrbrkmedia, the U.S. is massing reconnaissance aircraft near Venezuela as the U.S. deploys nearly a dozen ships into the region.
Puerto Rico now hosts a detachment of Navy P-8A Poseidons conducting surveillance and gathering intelligence across the Caribbean. https://t.co/zHj3Opu0vJ