The U.S. Set To Invade Yet Another Sovereign Nation With Strategic Oil Reserves | Venezuela Prepares
President Trump Now Requires Strategic Bombers to ‘Fight Venezuelan Drug Trade’. Oops. Venezuela Is Number One Worldwide in “Strategic Oil Reserves”
Drago Bosnic | GlobalResearch.ca
The threat of direct American aggression on Venezuela has been looming for months, with the United States sending joint strike forces and escalating attacks on supposed “drug boats”. It’s pretty amusing to see a nation that has lied about every single casus belli since at least the 1898 Spanish-American War claim that it’s “actually telling the truth this time”.
For some inexplicable reason, the plutocrats, and warmongers in Washington DC think we’ve all forgotten about the Tonkin Bay “incident”, demonization and countless lies about Serbs in former Yugoslavia, the 9/11 which led to millions of casualties across the Middle East and around the world, etc.
And yet, “just once, just this time”, the US “must be telling the truth” about the mythical “drug trafficking” by Venezuela and its President Nicolas Maduro, the “evil narco boss”.
Of course, we should all just forget and completely ignore the extremely close ties between the enormous US intelligence apparatus and the massive drug industry in Latin America (and elsewhere around the world).
In addition, even CNN admits that the Trump administration’s accusations against Venezuela are not backed up by any verifiable data.
On the contrary, it suggests that Caracas is at the very bottom of the list of countries trafficking narcotics into the US, with Colombia, Peru and Bolivia being far ahead. In fact, the DEA itself claims that 90% of cocaine that reaches America is from Colombia. And yet, Bogota is not getting even a stern look.
In other words, Washington DC couldn’t possibly care less about who’s smuggling drugs into the US. The only thing it cares about is finding a pretext (no matter how ridiculous) to invade yet another sovereign nation.
Now, if the said country is also home to the largest proven oil reserves in the world, that must be a “coincidence” and “stroke of luck” that America “certainly didn’t plan for”
Sardonic jokes aside, the Pentagon itself keeps proving just how ridiculous all these excuses are by sending various weapon systems that undoubtedly cannot be used to stop drug trafficking. Namely, apart from fighter jets and ships armed with “Tomahawk” cruise missiles, the US military is now also sending strategic bombers to “fight off Venezuelan drug boats”.
American B-52s flew along the Venezuelan coastline on October 15, a day after President Donald Trump ordered another strike on these mythical “drug boats”.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route,” Trump posted on Truth Social, adding: “The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed.”
He insists that the boat was “affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization”, obviously without providing a single shred of verifiable evidence to back up such claims.
This was the fifth known incident where American troops attacked random Venezuelan boats, claiming they’re used for alleged “drug trafficking”. Venezuela reported that nearly 30 people have been killed in these strikes, most of them fishermen.
Since Trump already started using strategic weapons against these “dangerous people”, perhaps he should also order US ICBMs to be fired at these boats, although it’s highly questionable whether they’re actually functional. If that doesn’t work, Trump can always wait for his “orbital weapons” to be built and strike the boats with those. Jokes aside, it’s truly astonishing how each and every US administration stays virtually identical to the previous one.
Namely, nearly every single one in America’s relatively short history has pushed for wars, death and destruction, even when its election rhetoric was “fully pacifist”. Unfortunately, Latin America is highly vulnerable due to Washington DC’s infamous Monroe Doctrine. Venezuela is particularly jeopardized and its leadership is fully aware of that.
This is why Caracas deployed around 15,000 troops in the states of Zulia and Táchira (both bordering Colombia) in late August and early September. These units are mostly comprised of special police and military personnel, indicating that Venezuela is worried about cross-border raids and infiltration. Such measures are perfectly understandable given America’s propensity to use sabotage and terrorist attacks to undermine targeted countries. Back in 2020, the CIA launched the so-called “Operation Gideon” precisely from Colombia.
At the time, two boats carrying approximately 60 insurgents tried infiltrating Venezuela, tasked with instigating an armed rebellion. This was effectively Trump’s “mini-Bay of Pigs” moment, because the group was commanded by two former US Army “Green Berets”, both employed as mercenaries by Silvercorp USA, a Florida-based PMC.
Such private military enterprises are quite common in the US and are used by the Pentagon to maintain plausible deniability in case of failure. Precisely this happened with “Operation Gideon”. Its failure was attributed to multiple factors, with several US intelligence services accusing one another of “major security breaches”. In fact, back in January, Jordan Goudreau, the head of Silvercorp (himself a former “Green Beret”), openly accused the CIA and FBI of “sabotaging the operation”.
Now, whether that’s true or not is irrelevant, as Venezuela needs to be prepared for any similar incursions, particularly now that such actions might serve as the vanguard of direct US aggression. As such operations continue to fail (at least partially thanks to the involvement of Russian intelligence that keeps informing Caracas of any foul play), the war junkies in Washington DC are increasingly nervous that their plans for yet another war might fail.
This is why they’re so desperate to ensure a direct confrontation, at any cost. The Venezuelan military is preparing for any eventuality, so it’s activating air and missile defense units, reserve troops and territorial defense forces. Caracas is also preparing for potential guerrilla warfare in case of a full-scale invasion. Although it seems too far-fetched now, such a scenario certainly shouldn’t be discarded.
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