United States Escalates Warmongering Against Venezuela Because Of.. Drug Trafficking? by Ms Caitlin Johnstone
(2020-04-02 at 00:42:34 )

United States Escalates Warmongering Against Venezuela Because Of.. Drug Trafficking? by Ms Caitlin Johnstone

The Donald Trump administration is sending Navy ships to patrol Venezuela, the latest escalation against the government targeted by an aggressive hybrid United States regime change intervention.

"President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Navy ships are being moved toward Venezuela as his administration beefs up counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean following a United States drug indictment against Nicolas Maduro," AP reports in an article packed with pro-United States disinformation.

"As governments and nations focus on the coronavirus there is a growing threat that cartels, criminals, terrorists and other malign actors will try to exploit the situation for their own gain," said Donald Trump. "We must not let that happen."

"The Venezuelan people continue to suffer tremendously due to Mr. Maduro and his criminal control over the country, and drug traffickers are seizing on this lawlessness," added Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

All of this, of course, is bullshit.

The United States government does not care about "the Venezuelan people" (a term only ever invoked to advance pro-regime change narratives); if they did they would not be murdering them by the tens of thousands using starvation sanctions and targeting them with backdoor biowarfare by cutting off their ability to protect themselves from a deadly pandemic.

The United States government is also not interested in "drug traffickers". As journalist Ben Norton notes, "Even the United States governments own data admit the vast, vast, vast majority of drugs (mostly cocaine) coming from Latin America come from Colombia - a right-wing United States colony."

"70% of the coca (used to create cocaine) grown in the whole world came from Colombia in 2017 according to the United Nations," Mr. Norton adds. "Right-wing United States colony Colombia is the Central Intelligence Agencys favorite drug dealer, used to fund death squads and Contra terrorist wars to overthrow leftist governments."

As Venezuela Analysis rightly points out, in 2009 George W Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to then-president of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Velez, who was previously listed by United States intelligence as one of Colombias leading narco-traffickers.

So no, the United States government does not care about drug trafficking, and it does not care about the Venezuelan people. What the United States government cares about is securing control over the largest proven oil reserve on planet Earth, which is located beneath Venezuelan soil.

It is so precious how the United States empire pretends that its transparent resource control agendas are about protecting human interests. It reminds me of the excuses the guys make when they get busted on To Catch A Predator: "No, Chris Hansen, honest! I just drove 300 miles because I wanted to give the 13 year-old girl a talking to about the dangers of flirting with strangers online." No you did not America, you drove 300 miles because you wanted to steal that little girls oil reserves you pervert.

The Donald Trump administration has already admitted that its sole interest is in toppling the Venezuelan government with its ridiculous offer to cease murdering civilians via economic warfare if Mr. Maduro leaves office; adding a bunch of unrelated gibberish about narco-trafficking on top of this does nothing to obfuscate this.

Warships have been sent to Venezuela because the Donald Trump administration is waging a deadly war upon Venezuelans and that is what you do during a war. These continued escalations are directed at nothing other than shoring up more power and control for the globe-spanning United States-centralized empire, which works tirelessly to dominate the world by dominating its resources.

I do not know about you, but I certainly do not remember voting for a paradigm where powerful governments pour the lions share of riches into sabotaging, toppling and destroying nations which do not bow before their demands.

This dynamic exists without the consent of ordinary human beings, and it brings nothing but harm to ordinary human beings. It harms human beings abroad with overt and covert applications of deadly force, and it harms human beings at home by robbing them of riches and resources for agendas which benefit them in no way, shape or form.

All these Venezuela shenanigans are occurring as revelations emerge that the Pentagon had predicted the exact sort of disruptions a deadly coronavirus pandemic would cause way back in 2017.

The Nations Ken Klippenstein shows that the Department of Defense had warned that unless changes were made an outbreak of a novel virus would see a shortage of "ventilators, devices, personal protective equipment such as face masks and gloves", which "will have a significant impact on the availability of the global workforce."

Hey America?

If your Department of "Defense" is not being used to defend the American citizenry from the deadly threats it perceives, but is being used to patrol the shores of an oil-rich nation that has nothing to do with you, then maybe that department needs a new name.

And maybe you need a new kind of government.

Just a thought.

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