“I would love to see a change in government.”
“Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day.”
Oil makes greedy men, and women, mad. They, their vassals, shills and enablers, cannot help themselves.
An end to wars for oil is as good a reason as any to get away from fossil fuels.
Most Americans are against military action in Venezuela amid recent tension in the region, according to a poll from CBS News/YouGov.
In the poll, 70 percent said they were against “the U.S. taking military action in Venezuela,” while 30 percent said they were for it.
The U.S. military has recently bolstered its presence near Venezuela, with the USS Gerald R. Ford making its way to the Caribbean, and President Trump allowing the CIA to go ahead with covert operations inside Venezuela.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently advised pilots to “exercise caution” when they are near Venezuela due to the “worsening security situation and heightened military activity” in and around the country.
The agency’s Friday advisory said “threats could pose a potential risk to aircraft at all altitudes” in the Maiquetia Flight Information Region.
CBS report below.
President Trump has said that the U.S. military is attacking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific because of the large numbers of fentanyl deaths in the United States, and he claims that those boats come from Venezuela.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said the military mission “secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people.”
The U.S. military has blown up at least 21 boats, killing more than 80 people since the Trump administration’s antidrug campaign began in September.
There is little doubt that fentanyl is exceptionally dangerous. But lawmakers and narcotics experts say that the Trump administration’s efforts to tie Venezuela to the U.S. fentanyl crisis are misleading. For one, the fentanyl used illegally in the United States does not come from Venezuela.
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Is there any fentanyl on the boats that the U.S. military has blown up?
No.
When the strikes began in September, Mr. Trump said — without evidence — that there was fentanyl aboard the boats. The administration’s more recent claims have been vaguer, without directly mentioning fentanyl.
This month, military officials told members of Congress in closed-door hearings that there was cocaine on the boats but no fentanyl.
“Their rationale for the strikes is because fentanyl is killing so many Americans, but these strikes are targeting cocaine,” said Representative Sara Jacobs, a California Democrat who attended the briefing.
Military officials, Ms. Jacobs said, acknowledged to her that there was no fentanyl on the boats.
“I represent San Diego, so I know about this a lot,” she said. “Fentanyl comes to the United States at legal ports of entry by U.S. citizens. So this is not even like how fentanyl gets to us.”
UPDATE:
Good advice here. But we can walk and chew gum.
One thing about the Trump admin, they don’t hide their intent. An invasion of Venezuela is all about capturing the oil & gas reserves for American fossil fuel giants. This sounds like another Shock Doctrine event to me.
Fox News: We need to go in, because a new war will goose up news viewership.