South America Thread

[LaAguilaNegra]

Article is from 2013, ergo any link to recent statements do not make a lot of sense.



If anything Venezuela's geopolitical position on Iran and Russia would be a much bigger giveaway, the Maduro Clique was one of by the few staunch supporters of Tehran during the Twelve Day War - a position that for some reason didn't reach the mainstream. Venezuela under Maduro is also opening up to Russian arms manufacturing and is being named as a potential host for a Russian missile basis a la Cuba 1963 even though the advent of ICBMs relinquishes much of any future missile base's relevance. The news below is not confirmed and was mentioned in response to Trump putting two nuclear submarines on standby. There are however quite a few Russian military bloggers close to the Kremlin who spoke on the matter, and who relayed that the possibility was indeed proposed in National Security Council meetings as a retaliatory measure.

 

[LaAguilaNegra]

The NYT reports that Trump has signed a secret Directive to the Pentagon on the use of military force against the cartels. The current rumour is that DJT is becoming increasingly impatient with especially the Mexican and Venezolean attitude and progress on the fentanyl/ cartel problem, in short not much is happening.

Colombia's commie leader Gustavo Petro's rhetorics are rapidly becoming more belligerent and deluded, the man is making questionable public statements rather frequently these days. Earlier this week Petro descended in yet another tirade, this time threatening to militarily side with Caracas aka start a shooting match with the US if Washington would move on Maduro. Reasons for such brazen and delusional statements are unknown, yet despite Maduro's and Petro's Leninist- Trotskyist ideological conformities, chances are actually quite high that Petro's simply scared of his personal jejo side business taking a hit. Or it's just the usual seething that follows when the Third World Socialism mind virus takes over the host brain, man can't properly think in consequences anymore.

Either way the Trump Administration actually deciding to go after the Cartels and aligned narco-politicians south of the border will lay bare that there isn't a single Latin American politician of any kind that isn't somewhat connected to drug trafficking. In tweet and video below Petro is threatening the US that military action on Maduro will be considered aggression against Colombia.

Petro has also mentioned a far-reaching and radical idea on the eventual integration of Venezuela's and Colombia's militaries. It is not sure whether this is a seriously thought out proposal or just another wet brainfart. Nevertheless it goes to show that Colombia is realigning and is turning away from the US. It also shows that Petro is everything the Colombian Right warned him to be, aka a commie in (barely) disguise who should not be let anywhere near Casa Narino because he'll on a long enough timeline would Venezualize the country. Courtesy of the US aligned Uribe Clique too it has to be said, they basically paved the way to his election victory by being some of the most arrogant, classist, incompetent and corrupt politicians out there. On the matter of military integration Petro has so far been rebuked by elements of the military. Yet it is unclear how much weight Petro's political opponents can and are prepared to bring to the table, and how unified they are in the first place.

 

[LaAguilaNegra]

In additional news: Reuters reports that the US is set to deploy additional naval and air assets in the Southern Caribbean to deal with Latin American based cartels, in this case the Venezuelan Cartel de los Soles gets mentioned.