With thousands of US troops patrolling the Caribbean, at least eight warships deployed in the region, and the BBC reporting that it tracked four US military planes that flew near Venezuela Thursday night, lawmakers and other leaders from across Europe on Friday issued a unified demand for the Trump administration to deescalate the tensions it has ratcheted up in recent weeks.
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On Tuesday, a group of House Democrats introduced legislation seeking to block the Trump administration from continuing its boat strike operations, in Congress’s latest attempt to wrest back authority over military operations. The lawmakers, including top Democrats on foreign and military affairs committees within the House, said that the administration is seemingly preparing for war while…
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As fears mount that U.S. strikes against so-called “narco-terrorists” in the Caribbean could escalate into full-scale war with Venezuela, weapons makers are well positioned to benefit from the unprecedented U.S. military build-up in the region, not seen on such a scale in decades, and continues unabated. Currently, key naval vessels such as guided-missile destroyers equipped with the Aegis…
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One might think that the word “homeland” is mere post-9/11 sloganeering, but Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, now in final edits, makes the United States and the Western Hemisphere the single top priority for the military and the national security agencies, multiple government sources say. Trump is taking “America First” literally. For the first time ever…
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Today, Donald Trump presides over his own Murder Incorporated, less a government than a death squad. Many brushed off his proclamation early in his second term that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth be called the Gulf of America as a foolish, yet harmless, show of dominance. Now, however, he’s created an ongoing bloodbath in the adjacent Caribbean Sea. The Pentagon has so far destroyed 18…
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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 eastern Pacific — but officials in the South American country on Tuesday took the arrival of a US aircraft carrier in the region seriously despite the administration’s claims that it won’t…
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