On Dec 6th and 7, protests were held in many cities against Trump’s threats of all-out war against Venezuala. One of these protests was in Tampa, Florida. The Federal courthouse there is not only a courthouse but also contains offices of Florida’s two Senators. Sen Marco Rubio (R-FL maybe Q-F?) is one of the loudest voices demanding war.
Trump is threatening war on Venezuala over a claimed drug cartel that DOES NOT EXIST. The actual reason for the war is oil. He claims Venezuala’s entire government is the “Cartel of the South” but forgot to tell the DEA to add it to their list of known drug cartels. This contains no mention of a “cartel of the South” at all. In other words, the alleged cartel is no more real than GW Bush’s “WMD” in Iraq! Like those supposed WMD, this is being used as an excuse for war.
What else to Iraq and Venezuala have in common? OIL-oil not owned by the big US oil companies at the start of the war.
Note that this is Pearl Harbor Day, marking the date Imperial Japan bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbor-over OIL. Japan’s imperialists could not continue their other wars without oil, and a US freeze of Japanese assets in the US was preventing Imperial Japan from buying oil. Thus, the massive air raid that sunk most of the Navy’s ships in harbor and killed 1700+ people on USS Arizona alone.
Now, Donald Trump is threatening to act exactly like the Japanese Empire did in 1941, raining death from the sky over oil. Hopefully Venezuala’s own pilots will have better luck in the air stopping these bombers and drones than the few planes that got off the ground at Pearl did.