Fracas in Caracas and Six for Sedition

A strange week in which Nicolás Maduro was reduced to hoping that Mark Kelly could bail him out.

The president warned everyone to avoid the airspace over or alongside Venezuela this week.

“To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”

We have positioned a serious armada on that country’s shore. Among the explanations for these moves the most plausible I can find is Jeff Childers', who once again documents his views with credible links.

The Caribbean communist country is practically daring us to do something about it. “China has poured millions into Venezuelan oil projects and loans,” the Guardian explained. Literally poured. That’s how much money China has. Meanwhile, the paper continued, “Russia has armed Venezuelan President Maduro with Sukhoi fighter jets, helicopters, tanks, and air defence systems.” And probably aggressive nesting dolls, too, but that’s not important right now.

So China and Russia are the first annoyance. But it’s like an addiction; Maduro can’t seem to stop himself. It’s not just Russia and China. The next major irritant is that Venezuela has also been cozying up to the mad mullahs and working with various Middle Eastern terrorist groups, like Hezbollah. Headline from the Atlantic Council, in 2020:

“The Lebanese terrorist group,” the story reported, “has helped to turn Venezuela into a hub for the convergence of transnational organized crime and international terrorism.” So.

Add those vexing problems to the surge into the U.S. of Venezuelan cartel gangs —at least one directly connected to Maduro’s government -- and the tsunami of drugs washing northwards, and you already have a geopolitical powder keg a few hundred nautical miles from the border.

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"It was reckless to the point of insanity to allow [NG-shooter Lakanwal] a trained radical terrorist with known mental health problems to operate unsupervised in the continental United States. Assuming, of course, that he was unsupervised."

White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki in 2021 - promising Americans every Afghan entering the U.S. was "rigorously vetted."

Her exact words: "I can absolutely assure you that no one is coming into the United States who has not been through a thorough screening and background check process."

Writ large now is the size of that deadly Biden Administration whopper. It would seem not all the characteristics of Gen. Mark Milley's Afghan pullout out were as unplanned as we were led to believe.

The coup certainly was not unplanned. Prioritizing the importation of some of the most vicious CIA-trained Afghani thugs was purposeful. Maybe Psaki had it right and they were "rigorously vetted." The sleight of hand was that she was speaking on behalf of the Deep State coupsters and not the interests of the American citizenry.

It is not proven that Chavez did not win his elections. Nor has it been proven that Maduro did not. Their procedures were the same over their period of time that both have had control.

They flood the barrios with food and even cash in the weeks prior to an election. It is outright bribery and it generates votes.

And generates more of it than the opposition. The opposition seek to oppress the people of the barrios with declarations of the virtues and glory of capitalism. This would be a form of society that would require these people in the barrios to work and make the owners rich. Those people in the barrios have chosen not to do that. They’re not stupid. They know they’re being bribed. They perceive it to be safer so go with the known bribe than the unknown guaranteed inequality.

It has occurred to me that if Maduro were as evil as painted, there would be no opposition. He would mow them all down.

As for drugs flowing into the US, we should certainly see law enforcement make arrests and prosecuted. That’s their job. Interdict this flow of drugs, prosecute them and put them in jail.

Exploding boats such that no drugs can be recovered is disquieting. Asserting that those boats are military boats and thus deserve to be intercepted with one’s own military is a little worrisome in that we’re not recovering any materials. It does require proof. If these are military boats why aren’t they heavily armed? I don’t think I’ve seen any videos of them shooting back.

A lot.

Part of the destabilization is created by opening the flood gates for immigration, i.e. creating a brain drain in Venezuela.

When you have doctors, engineers, petroleum workers, teachers, pack up and leave to the US in the tens of thousands, that has an impact.

When you have these strategic level initiatives where we want to get rid of a government as in Venezuela every part of the US government plays a role, not just the DOD.

Even US immigration policies are fine tuned to support this national initiative.

You politically isolate, economically sanction, propagandize, support dissident groups, send in SF to train equip and lead violent opposition groups, shut down air traffic, cut them off from being able to borrow money, conduct cyber operations, interfere with their shipping (rights to navigation - which is an act of war, but it’s all ok when we do it) do airstrike to freeze their military and prevent it from being able to conduct operations against the groups we arm and equip so that they have freedom of movement...

We’ll have peace once Venezuela’s oil production and reserves are under US control, once Russian influence is purged.

May it be China’s influence on the Panama canal (a civilian Chinese firm managed it), or the Russians doing trade with and supporting Venezuela’s government, the Monroe doctrine is still very much so in effect.

Yet we demand that Russia accepts NATO on their border. LOL

I’m not even against this, I think spheres of influence are real, unavoidable, every one has them in different ways, and they actually HELP prevent big wars between large powers.

I just find it ironic that we demand our sphere of influence that expands over an entire continent, 1,900 miles from our border in Panama, even further in Venezuela, or over 6,000 miles away to the Solomon Islands, but then use these feel good junk arguments of “sovereignty” as an excuse to encroach on others sphere of influence.

The concept of the “sphere of influence” was used in a pejorative manner by some politicians and the media regards Ukraine.

Example: https://www.axios.com/2021/12/01/nato-russia-ukraine-invasion

It is actually just a descriptive concept on how to see things and the world really runs.

Even Germany or Switzerland have a sphere of influence and if you don’t believe that, ask the Greeks if the Germans tell them what to do. So does France and the UK whose influence extends militarily as well into Africa in particular. We have the largest sphere of influence on the planet and use FORCE to guard it, but then talk about how Russia has no right to such a thing.

The concept of a “sphere of influence,” if understood and respected, actually PREVENTS wars like in the Ukraine, or now Venezuela where the US is about to topple a government because of foreign influence. Does anyone really believe the cartel narrative?

If you believe the cartel narrative, then you probably still believe we invaded Iraq for WMD, none found. Got rid of Assad because of human rights, Syria is now led by a Muslim fundamentalist and is going backwards. Is Libya better off today? Today you actually have Islamic radical controlled areas in Libya: https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fd15280eb1334de785cad39611648876_6.jpeg?quality=80

These conflicts are about money and power, who is making the money and who has the power. The WMD, human rights, terrorist, cartel crap is for the masses that want to feel good and are in need for a moralistic sound good justification that is complete BS.

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