Bringing a Howitzer to a Knife Fight: US Armada Off Venezuela

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : He observed that it "does not exist; it is a fictitious excuse used by the extreme right to overthrow governments that do not obey them.
56% : " In fact, drug interdiction is a ruse for Washington's goal of regime-change in Venezuela, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. US administrations have steadily merged the war on drugs with the war on terror, framing Latin American drug trafficking as a national security threat to justify military operations.
50% : " Trump sees no need to back his claims.
50% : The war on "terrorism" The Herald marveled how Trump dispatched an armada of warships - destroyers and a nuclear submarine - plus F-35 stealth jets and 4,500 troops for drug interdiction.
50% : This laid the present groundwork for Trump, who tied migration to terrorism and cast Venezuelan refugees as a criminal invasion.
50% : Further, Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, designated drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and directed the Pentagon to prepare options for military force against cartels.
47% : They falsely link the Venezuelan government to major drug trafficking while promoting domestic support for intervention in Venezuela.
46% : " Recently retired head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Pino Arlacchi, pronounced the cartel "a product of Trump's imagination... useful for justifying sanctions, blockades and threats of military intervention against a country which, incidentally, sits on one of the planet's largest oil reserves."

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