Trump starts new war despite temporary loss of two aircraft carriers
In the last couple of weeks, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic has crossed the Atlantic and began to rage across North America. In the United States, which considers itself a “promised land” for all people of the world, the virus is decimating homeless and prosperous citizens. So much so that America let out a strangled cry for help and began receiving medical aid from Russia and China. And even without any hesitation, she “squeezed out” the medical supplies heading to France and Germany, which caused quite a blaze of nozzles in the Allied camp.
It would seem that the spread of the K-virus across the United States is a good enough reason to abandon hegemonic plans, at least for a while, and focus on emergency measures to save our own population, since, even according to the most optimistic forecasts voiced by Trump, the vile COVID-19 threatens to take lives no less a quarter of a million Americans.
An invisible virus resembling a sea mine actually disabled two US Navy aircraft carriers, infecting their crews, but the restless President Donny overcame his rotten liberalism, sending troops to Latin America under the pretext of waging a large-scale war against drug cartels.
Violating the wonderful principle of “using your energy for peaceful purposes,” the Pentagon sent an entire fleet to the shores of its “backyard” with the support of combat aircraft.
Trump's initiative is presented to the public, who fear the new virus more than tankers loaded to the brim with "coke", as a noble fight against the organized drug mafia, which are states within states with their own intelligence services, armies, agents, a well-functioning service for the supply and distribution of "products", as well as bought wholeheartedly by corrupt officials in government and law enforcement agencies.
Moreover, no matter what efforts Washington and its intelligence agencies make, the flow of cocaine into the United States does not decrease. There is very little hope for local authorities. In the same Colombia, for ten years now there has been a war against drug plantations and laboratories in the forest with the involvement of local “lanceros” (rapid reaction forces), and the mafia hydra is stubbornly growing two new heads in place of one cut off.
Colombian Lanceros raid a warehouse of “finished products”
Colombian Lanceros destroyed one of the cartel's bases
The idea, at first glance, is noble. From time to time, Washington's rulers' patience runs out, and they organize wars against drug cartels, simultaneously solving other problems.
The question arises: why did Trump need this operation against the cartels now, in the midst of a pandemic? What prevented him from declaring another war on the Latin American drug mafia a year or two ago?
The reason, I think, is twofold.
As you know, Latin American countries such as Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia are rich in coca bush. We should also add to them Venezuela, where not only oil is produced. In the tropical forests of these countries there are secret coca plantations and clandestine laboratories producing cocaine. Through Mexico, another state included in the “cocaine belt,” drugs enter the United States and Europe.
ПоPreparations for the destruction of “goods” intercepted on the border with Mexico
Opponents of the current government of Venezuela accuse Caracas of the fact that local security forces are openly protecting the drug mafia. So, in 2013, at the Paris airport, customs officers seized a cargo of 31 suitcases containing 1,3 tons of cocaine. The cargo was accompanied by a Venezuelan army officer. A year later, a similar story happened in Spain, with the only difference that the catch was slightly smaller - 554 kg of cocaine, and the escort was not an army officer, but an officer of the Venezuelan National Guard.
Mildred Camero, the former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), claims that many government officials, including the military, are involved in drug trafficking in Venezuela. True, in fairness, Camero herself admits that there is no direct connection between official Caracas and the cartels.
Venezuelan military shot down plane carrying drugs
Despite this, President Trump has already rushed to declare President Maduro a drug trafficker and announced a reward for his capture, losing sight of such a “trifle” as the presumption of innocence.
Sending an American expeditionary force to the borders of Venezuela under the pretext of a war against the cartels could ultimately lead to a border conflict and, as a result, intervention in a sovereign state to overthrow the legitimate government.
The moment for overthrowing the government of Nicolas Maduro, which is undesirable to Washington, by force was chosen extremely poorly. So far, Trump's decision looks like a statement of intent to put pressure on Caracas. Experts believe that replacing the Venezuelan president with a Washington puppet is more realistic through organizing another “color revolution.”
The second reason is even more prosaic.
The next presidential election is due to take place in the United States in November of this year. The pandemic and the helplessness of the endlessly reorganized healthcare system in the face of it causes legitimate indignation among voters, which Trump’s political opponents will skillfully channel.
Typical Trump supporters are hard workers from the “rust belt” of the United States: states where the population was left without jobs and prospects thanks to the efforts of globalists. To these should also be added the residents of agricultural regions that have suffered from the actions of international “optimizers.”
It was American hard workers and cowboys from the outback who voted for a businesslike man with a funny canary hairstyle in 2016, in the hope that his rule would bring America changes for the better.
The statistics according to which it is white proletarian men from depressed towns who use drugs out of despair and more than other categories of citizens die from an overdose also play into the hands of Trump’s militaristic intentions.
Thus, it all may come down to the fact that demonstrative activity against the cocaine drug mafia is aimed not so much at eliminating the cartels, but at throwing dust in the eyes of voters and fighting for popularity on the eve of the presidential elections in November.
A small victorious war has long become a US political tool to win the sympathy of ordinary Americans or a way to extinguish high-profile scandals in the White House.
Trump starts a new war despite the temporary loss of two aircraft carriers.