Trump Has Been Suggesting a Naval Blockade of Venezuela for a Year but Pentagon Won’t Take Him Seriously
It can't be done, not with everything else the Imperial Navy has on its plate
President Trump has suggested to national security officials that the U.S. should station Navy ships along the Venezuelan coastline to prevent goods from coming in and out of the country, according to 5 current and former officials who have either directly heard the president discuss the idea or have been briefed on Trump’s private comments.
Driving the news: Trump has been raising the idea of a naval blockade periodically for at least a year and a half, and as recently as several weeks ago, these officials said. They added that to their knowledge the Pentagon hasn’t taken this extreme idea seriously, in part because senior officials believe it’s impractical, has no legal basis and would suck resources from a Navy that is already stretched to counter China and Iran.
The U$ cannot survive without a war, but the victim must attack first, and provide a casus belli. Russia, China, Venezuela, Iran, et al, are far to smart to give the U$ the war it wants. Ergo the U$ is screwed. Hard times are coming, and right soon.
As if the US government doesn’t need to put a blockade on its southern border.
“Driving the news: Trump has been raising the idea of a naval blockade periodically for at least a year and a half, and as recently as several weeks ago, these officials said. They added that to their knowledge the Pentagon hasn’t taken this extreme idea seriously, in part because senior officials believe it’s impractical, has no legal basis and would suck resources from a Navy that is already stretched to counter China and Iran.”
This Axios propaganda piece is standing reality on its head.
China, Iran, Russia, and indeed Venezuela are *countering* the American Empire and its sociopathic attempts to control global energy resources–and ultimately the world–under its pretext of “promoting democracy.”
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the US wants Venezuela’s oil, too bad Maduro is an economic idiot
Maduro has survived everything the U$ has thrown at him, and Venezuela is now part of the Chinese economic sphere. So why is Maduro an economic idiot?
Hard to consider Maduro without also Chaves, who selected a bus driver as an obedient assistant; I have no issue with the need of the Venezuelan people to gain control of their government, nor the resistance of Maduro in every possible manner with the assistance of whomever against the US.
I fault Maduro (and Chaves) for not moving full-tilt to make Venezuela not just food sufficient, but a food exporter. Look at China, they are experimenting with a whole slew of different ‘mechanisms’ to increase agricultural output.
The cash cow, oil, has been mis-managed since Chaves wrested control from the local oligarchs, Maduro did not find a solution and now China is going to do the oilfield maintenance? No points for Maduro other than he found someone who wanted work – not a handout. (Do you think the Chinese will leave? Visit Central America before you answer, not so obvious.)
For Maduro’s inability to find a way forward I call him an idiot.
I notice you must belong to Maduro’s innercircle. You got all the knowledge and vision of and for Venezuela.
IMO, what US is doing (for Israel) is making just an extraordinary economical war against another country.
AIPAC Government wants Venezuela’s oilrights, the people of Venezuela can keep the land.
In short: it is that simple.
I agree with much of what you write, but you disregard the fact that the U$ has been waging economic war of Venezuela for more or less 20 years. It’s rather difficult to develop, and diversify an economy under the conditions that the U$ has imposed.
The bottom line is that it’s Venezuela’s oil, Venezuela’s political system, and Maduro is the is the duly elected president of Venezuela. Whether Maduro is an idiot or just a man doing his best for his nation the fact is that he’s Venezuela’s president, and not an American stooge. He may end up as China’s stooge, but China has a much better track record than the U$.
Sorry, you are just wrong.
This is not, and never has been, about oil.
It is just part of a new CIA Latin American initiative to squelch independent-minded, highly-nationalistic governments.
The Lima Group was formed as part of the operation.
The United States likes Latin America as it was in, say, the 1950s, a set of plantation economies whose rulers are highly receptive to American views and policies.
Maduro, who is very much not receptive, is one hell of an effective leader and a brave man.
You don’t agree with the country’s socialism, so what?
It is up to the Venezuelan people to work that out.
The United States should mind its own business. They’ve been at this dirty work for more than five years, going back into Obama’s time.
Its economic measures, attacking everything from the county’s markets to its currency, have immensely hurt the people, something CIA flacks then pitch as the harm of Maduro’s government.
The people elected Maduro, twice, and he still is pretty popular despite the imposed hardship.
The great irony of all of America’s interventions abroad is that it can’t even run its own country.
There are millions of Americans in immense poverty. Many landscapes resemble the Third World. And infrastructure of every description – from drinking water equipment to school buildings and to roads and bridges – is in awful shape.
see below Chuck; apart from ths US bs, Maduro is not leading anywhere (nor could he really under the present circumstances)
This is one of the historical snapshots stored in my head, not really important but interesting.
War of 1812, an American Privateer, (USA sanctioned Pirates, allowed to prey on British Shipping), sailed up and down in front of a harbor in Canada, full of British war ships, bragging he was blockading Canada all by himself.
When all the many British ships can out, surrounded him, the Captain seems to have blown his own ship up, with most of the sailors on board and killed in the blast.
With the USA is trying to provide muscle for the Ratschilds in several different areas of the world at the moment, there simply are not enough ships, trained sailors, up to date functioning, and as advertised weapons systems, nor has the crumbling from inward out American structure/resources/people, nor the empty gold vaults at Fort Knox Nor the Not federal, No reserves and Not a bank vaults, hold enough treasure to finance another front on the zionist driven war on humanity.
It truly is difficult to understand what makes this genuinely bizarre man tick.
Apart from the difficulties presented by Venezuela’s long and complex coastline, and apart from the fact Venezuela’s government has done nothing to deserve such treatment, blockades of course are acts of war.
Only here we have the involvement of both Russia and China.
So, between slurps of Big Macs and coffee, America’s new strategic genius is asking for a risky military venture in Venezuela, demanding the chance to buy Greenland, increasing the dangerous harassment of China on all fronts, carrying on with stupidities over Iranian tankers, making calls of encouragement to the bloodiest ruler in the Mideast over the increasing failings of his disastrous slaughter in Yemen, and making half the leaders in Europe sick at their stomachs with the United States.
Actually, this is a full stop for me 🙂 Trump is acting like Maduro blew up the WTC, oh wait, that was his best buddies the Saudies. The fact that Neocons can get all excited and belligerent about countries who have never harmed us just kills me. It shows how depraved they are.