In the 1990s. Keep that at the front of you mind. I’m watching paying a big of attention to the coverage of the WAR CRIME that was the attack on the remints of the Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean.
WORST THING EVER
HEGSETH IS A MURDERER
TRUMP PHONED IN THE ORDER
LITERALLY HITLER
(God, I miss the Blink tag….)
From “the other side,” you have Megyn Kelly essentially cheering the survivors’ deaths in the additional strike.
Hmmm.
Yeah, I’m not sure I’m 100% comfortable with all of this. At the same time, I’m also very, very, very uncomfortable with the Maduro regime, and what they’re doing in many areas.
The Fifth Column had an interview with Thor Halvorssen
where he discussed what’s going on in his home country. Then María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize.
There’s a ton of information that’s come out courtesy Milei in Argentina about some of the stuff the Iranians, Russians, and Chinese were trying to do there under the Peronists. Venezuela was a friendly place to the north sitting on a ton of oil.
You get into some of the ancillary conspiracy theories about things like the coding of the electronic voting machines originating from .vz, etc.. I’ll leave that to Lara Logan, but there’s more than a little smoke about what’s happening.
OrangeManBad points the finger at Fentanyl, but I suspect the boats were probably carrying cocaine smuggled in under a compliant Maduro government. Do whatever y’all want so long as we get our cut. Oil ain’t selling all that well, now. Those stupid Americans and Canuckistanis learned a new way to coax oil of the ground. Imperialists!
After several cuts, we’ll hold fast, even as the price keeps dropping.
But on the drug boats, I was reminded of the Iraq No-Fly Zone from the Bush41 and Clinton years. (Okay, I’ll admit that I was thinking about some of the A2A glories of the F-4, and that was probably one of the last times it was used in combat, but…)
Pappy Bush justified it under another UN resolution. The UN Security Council couldn’t block what the Americans, Brits, and French were doing. Several other countries went along with it.
This is what the Air Force was doing when Khobar Towers happened. (I know, I know, Libertarian Institute; this was only to sell weapons to defense companies, and was all a par5t of a regime-change operation aimed at Iran from Saudi Arabia. Complete. i get it. I listen, Jersey Dave. I understand!!1!)
To me, what’s happening looks an awful lot like a maritime version of the no-fly zones.
Hmmm.
Yeah, I’m okay with it.
I should probably work on an OWT entry on it.
Maybe this weekend.