Thursday, 11 December 2025

Venezuela Moved Into Trump's Gun Sights

Donald Trump's proto-fascist government seemed to have moved on from blowing up ships off the coast of Venezuela based on the evidence that they are boats off the coast of Venezuela, to stealing their boats full of oil like modern day Pirates whilst making all sorts of absurd allegations that Maduro, the Venezuelan President, is some sort of kingpin in the drugs trade.   
Obviously no evidence is forthcoming which makes a change to the previous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when the evidence presented was just a made up fantasy but the American gunboat diplomacy against Venezuela continues anyway with promises of more to come.
I assume the end goal is the removal of Maduro and a nice, more American friendly President installed, one that will wave through the pillaging of the World's largest proven oil
reserves, estimated around 300 billion barrels  and the latest move to manufacture a war with the South American nation has gone down very well with Venezuela’s opposition leader and Trump patsy, María Corina Machado, who has poked her head out of hiding to say how she supports the US seizure of the oil tanker.
I imagine we will see a creeping of more warlike actions and it will eventually break out into a shooting war so what with providing backing for the Israeli genocide, attacking Iran and setting the military against his own civilians, will assure Trump has as much chance of winning his coveted Nobel Peace Prize as he has of winning the rear of the year award.