Either it’s an act of war or a smokescreen for something worse…or both…
It’s not really covert if you just authorized it out in the open like that. Morons…
Shh, just don’t tell anybody.
This is funny, but just to keep things somewhat accurate the article says
The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader.
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This means multiple people who are “need to know” on this are frustrated enough with the situation that they’re leaking it to NYT, but the fact that that’s happening is just more evidence for the same basic conclusion - they’re a bunch of morons.
and they are knowingly killing innocent fisherman too.
Aren’t non-covert covert operations basically just acts of war?
Trump needs a war and a fight with us (Canada) wasn’t really being bought by Americans :/
Covert actions are also acts of war, but the plausible deniability can be used by both sides as an off-ramp from further escalation.
i think im out of the loop here, but why does the american government hate venezuela all of a sudden?
Been ongoing since the 2000s when Venezuelan people elected Hugo Chavez, a left-wing populist politician. He nationalized Venezuela’s oil industry and kicked the American oil extraction companies out so that Venezuela could sell their own oil and keep the money it generates. Since then the US has carried out an economic war on Venezuela with sanctions, embargoes, coup attempts and sporadic military action. This has resulted in extreme instability and poverty in Venezuela, and downstream of that it has increased government corruption and created a migrant crisis out of the country that has further exacerbated tensions between Venezuela and the US.
It’s worth noting the Chavez and Maduro admins have had a lot of people at PVDSA who have a lot of money that they should not have. There is clear corruption within the Venezuelan government so the nationalization wasn’t putting money in the pockets of your average citizen.
They’re brown and have oil. It’s that simple.
They made Venezuelan gangs out to be the big bogeyman without actually producing any actionable evidence or results, so they have to escalate or lose traction on the fear mongering
Started right after putin and trump met
I don’t know much about it but Venezuela has long had a left-wing authoritarian government that is not well disposed towards the USA, being exactly the kind of government the USA always tries to overthrow. It also has a lot of oil.
It only has that because we’ve been fucking with their government for decades.
They also nationalized their oil production and kicked US oil companies out, which is the real reason we keep fucking with them.
Oil was nationalized for decades before Chavez. What happened was that he made a bunch of policies that were unpopular causing a general strike. The response was to fire everyone in PDVSA and hire only people associated with his political party and giving managerial positions to army generals. The brain drain collapsed oil production and essentially crashed the country’s economy when global oil prices dropped. Even today many US companies still operate in Venezuela under special conssesions and sanctions loopholes. The US remains the number one buyer of venezuelan oil, accounting for the majority of exports.
If anyone in the US wants to get a feel of how Chavez rule was, just imagine a younger, less mentally addled, Trump in power. Trump’s plotting to Totalitarianism is very similar to Chavez rise to absolute power. Is just that Chavez painted the road with communist rethoric, no actual policy though, but it is just fascism under a Cuban costume.
All of a sudden? It happened when Chavez was elected and he nationalized a lot of industry that American companies owned.
Too brown. /j
Nope, they have too much oil and a penchant for theft of resources from PVDSA.
The /j was to signify its kind of a joke. We’ve established /s for sarcasm, but we need a joke identifier.
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All leftist leaders are illegitimate according to the US government. Then you get a guy like Pinochet who terrorised his people with US backing - completely legitimate.
Whatever people say about Maduro, a precedent has long been set when it comes to forcible removal of a leader and their replacement with a pro-US leader. It does not work out well for anyone except corrupt military juntas and US corporations.
Doing this after Venezuela recently foiled bombing attempts and other terrorism in their country is certainly an optics strategy. Well, I’m sure they weren’t doing this before!
They’re trying to unseat a socialist leaning government and install that lady who won the nobel peace prize.
Turns out she dedicated her nobel prize to Trump… Although the whole, US attacking Venezuela has been going on for years now.
The Socialist Latin American countries get attacked, the Right Wing ones get military training, or billion dollar funding packages.
I mean, we’ve been doing stuff there for decades… doesn’t even know what’s going on
Every day I worry about Venezuela. Epstein files?
Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/xmgJp
Venezuela should put a bullet in the head of anyone who supports the Trump administration just in case.
