John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JONATHAN SWAN IN CHECKPOINT ASIA
“Trump Has Been Suggesting a Naval Blockade of Venezuela for a Year but Pentagon Won’t Take Him Seriously
“It can't be done, not with everything else the Imperial Navy has on its plate”
It truly is difficult to understand what makes this genuinely bizarre man tick.
Apart from the difficulties presented by Venezuela's long and complex coastline, and apart from the fact Venezuela's government has done nothing to deserve such treatment, blockades of course are universally regarded as acts of war.
Only here, we have the involvement of Russia and China, both with important interests in the country.
So, between slurps of Big Macs and coffee, America's new strategic genius is asking for a risky military venture in Venezuela, demanding the chance to buy Greenland, increasing the dangerous harassment of China on all fronts, carrying on with stupidities over Iranian oil tankers, making calls of encouragement to the bloodiest ruler in the Mideast over the increasing failings of his disastrous slaughter in Yemen, and making half the leaders in Europe sick to their stomachs with the United States.
