“The only reason to move it there is to use it against Venezuela,” said one policy expert of the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford. White House officials have sought to walk back President Donald Trump’s repeated threats against Venezuela in recent days—even as the Department of Defense has continue to strike boats in the Caribbean and […]
“Trump’s military buildup in the Caribbean isn’t about ‘drugs,’ it’s about oil, power, and regime change,” said on critic of potential strikes in Venezuela. Two reports claim that the Trump administration is poised to launch strikes against military targets inside Venezuela. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday night that the administration is preparing to attack a variety of targets inside Venezuela, […]
“Decisions about the use of American military force are not campaign strategy sessions, and they are not the private property of one political party,” said Democratic Sen. Mark Warner. The Trump administration on Wednesday cut Senate Democrats out of a classified briefing on the US military’s string of deadly strikes on boats that the president and his […]
“This is a colonial operation of military aggression that seeks to turn the Caribbean into a space for lethal violence and US imperial domination.” The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Sunday that his country’s security forces captured a group of mercenaries aligned with the US Central Intelligence Agency, less than two weeks after […]