When Donald Trump has been asked about the reason he’s pressuring Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to step down and threatening military action against the country, he consistently blames the South American leader for two things: drugs and migrants.
As the Trump administration continues its strikes on alleged drug vessels at sea, the president has threatened that attacks against drug cartels on land in Venezuela would begin “very soon.” Experts who have modeled what would happen if Trump went ahead with even limited strikes warn Venezuela could see mass displacement and a new refugee surge like the 2017 crisis Trump blames on Maduro that led to thousands of Venezuelans moving to the US.
A Niskanen Center study released last month modeling refugee movements based on different types of US military action found that strikes could spur 1.7 million to 3 million additional people to flee Venezuela within just a few years if the attacks triggered a brief internal conflict.
I’m sure they’re just as good at bombing refugee ships and claiming they’re terrorists as they are at bombing fishing ships and claiming they’re drug lords
The “Department of WAR” is trying to start a war. Crazy…
They are trying to get Venezuela to strike back to justify an invasion. For OIL.
America is cutting off access to immigrants. Where will they go?
The plan is, America gets the OIL, funds and has justification for ramping up military funding and gets none of the immigrants.
This is painfully obvious, the question is, who will be the fall guy?
I mean…I don’t expect a war…what I expect is some made-for-TV explosions and some fake body counts. Then I expect the right wing to start attacking, killing, and exiling the leftists with impunity.
¿Why not both?
It will definitely, unfortunately, be one-sided and unnecessary. But it is what our government specializes in. Not a maduro fan. But any of the world powers whether it’s the US, Russia, or China. Actively attacking or saber rattling against neighbors, can get fucked.
The US is used to sending all the refugees to Europe when they start wars in the middle and far east.
Spain is full of Venezuelans, but crossing the Atlantic costs money, so they are almost all middle/upper class, many with good education. Something tells me that in case of war, the most desperate (read: difficult to manage) will stay in nearby rich country
