Despite his administration’s vow to launch “no more open-ended conflicts”, Trump has summoned an aircraft carrier to the Caribbean Sea and is already sending military helicopters provocatively near the Venezuelan coast. The Trump administration denies that its goal is regime change, but that certainly seems to be the purpose, as some officials privately concede. Ousting Venezuela’s autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, has long been a goal of Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state.
Getting rid of the bastard that has impoverished a nation seems like a good idea. No?
The Venezuelans can do that. We don’t need to.
All they need to do is pick up a rock. They don’t even need the rock – they have more fists than Maduro has people to fire bullets.
The consensus in the UK seems to be you’d be better off without Starmer & the Labour Party Comedy Circus. You going to do anything about it? No. You’ll keep grovelling at his feet.
Could say similar about Spain, BiS.
I think they’re reaching the end of their tether here. We’ve had quite a lot of people on the streets & rioting of late. Be interesting to see what happens. They’ve already had one civil war to get rid of the socialist blight. And the Spanish do own a lot of guns. I can buy a handgun here with an easy to obtain permit. I was practicing with my mate’s one a while back. Keeping my eye in. I haven’t done it, but I think you can just walk in & buy ammunition for it from the gun shop. Like buying a pack of fags. But 9mm. And the shop’s only 15 minutes walk away. Shame the one opposite me closed. I rather liked their display.
Well yes, but we did elect him and know that we’ll get a chance to throw him out like we did the Tories.
Not quite the same as Venezuela.
You seem very sure about that…
The Chavez/Maduo regime has impoverished the middle classes. It is a bit like Cuba, there’s no point in the poor rising up, because it won’t do them any good, their lives will not improve.
It’ll be interesting to see how much of the shit the Starmer Crooks ‘n Clowns Show can shovel on to the English before something happens. I think Blair and his other masters are waiting to see how it turns out.
Let’s hope it turns out like it did for Cea..cheau… that Eastern European dictator and his missus!
We’re half way there. TTK has his Securitate where we used to have bobbies.
The Romanians got rid of the Securitate by hunting them down & killing them. Or at least enough of them that the remainder discovered they weren’t Securitate after all. Oh no!
But it’s not just Starmer, is it? The entire civil service, the public sector & a fair bit of the private sector are permeated with the same sort people. It’s going to take more than democracy to shift them. Why I keep saying you have to look at the extra-democratic as well as the democratic or electing a Reform government will be futile. They’ll be powerless to change anything.
You’ve already been there, haven’t you? The newly elected majority Reform councilors said they didn’t want the Pride flag flying over the town hall for Pride events. The council Chief Exec said she’d refuse the instruction & fly it. What power do democratically elected representatives have? I’m not sure even if they could fire her. If they did, no doubt her contract would mean they were still paying her wages or equivalent as severance. How do you make public officials do what you want them to if they don’t want to? You expecting help from the judiciary?
US vs Venezuela? Open ended?
Cute.
Trump’s saber-rattling in Venezuela is illegal
Kenneth Roth
Call the police then, dickhead.
…The bastard that has impoverished a nation..
Yes, and bought politicians and interfered in elections all over the region as well. Not to mention the waves of Veneco criminals infesting this one. It’s his countrymen’s task to get rid of the bastard for sure, but a little bit of help would be welcome.
I actually bothered to read the Graun article. Couple things. It talks about cocaine smuggling out of VZ. VZ doesn’t grow coca. Wrong sort of place. The coca’s coming across the border from CO or by various routes from Bolivia. So there’s a big question how much Maduro complicit or at least blind eyeing the traffic. And there’s also the matter of what’s basically piracy. Vessels in the Caribbean being forcibly boarded, often the people on them murdered & them subsequently being used for trafficking. Some of these boats being US registered. And the suspicion the people doing this are out of VZ. Again whether Muduro is complicit or blind eyeing.
US ships in the area are in international waters & providing they don’t enter VZ waters they’re doing nothing illegal. They’ve as much right to intercept craft suspected of drug running or to establish the provenance of the vessel as anywhere else in the Caribbean. So it’s all about what the US might do with damn all evidence to back it up & nothing about what the US is actually doing. Usual Guardian daydreaming.
I don’t know about that. US has no jurisdiction in the open oceans. No more than in Delhi.
The excuse the US needs is an invasion of Guyana.