So the NY Times starts out by saying, “Yeah, the justification for this horror show isn’t working at all but it isn’t important anymore and we have a new reason we’re trying out and the old one was totally real anyway and ignore your lying eyes.” Stephens says the drug charges are of course true anyway — even though they totally aren’t. Even the DEA admitted:
“…about 8% of U.S.-bound cocaine departed through a ‘Caribbean corridor,’ primarily from Venezuela. …[And] Drug traffickers in South America do not produce or traffic fentanyl.”So zero fentanyl comes through VZ and practically no cocaine comes through VZ and other reporting shows that even less than 8% of the cocaine is actually produced in VZ. So VZ has as much to do with the drug trade as my great aunt does. (She dabbles but it’s just a hobby.)
Adding insult to injury, the former green beret behind the failed Venezuela invasion plot during the first Trump White House has stated recently that the CIA engineered the so-called ‘Cartel de los Soles’ decades ago. The Cartel of The Suns is the pretend totally-made-up cartel that Maduro supposedly heads. (The US and the CIA love playing pretend times.)
So what is this NEW reason why the NY Times says the US must invade VZ?
“…the larger challenge posed by Maduro’s regime is that it is both an importer and exporter of instability.”This line of thought should make everyone choke on their coffee. The US or the US media calling any other country an “exporter of instability” is akin to Steve Bannon calling another human “problematic” or Prince Andrew calling someone “sleazy”.
The US is by far the greatest cause of instability in the world. The US has been at war 93% of the years it has existed — 230 of 247 years.
And believe it or not, those numbers don’t even begin to include the endless list of CIA coup’ings, assassinations, color revolutions, economic wars, etc.
Stephens then tries to justify this woefully unhinged statement by saying:
“An importer, because the regime’s close economic and strategic ties to China, Russia and Iran give America’s enemies a significant foothold in the Americas…”Ummm, please point to the time China or Russia or Iran has launched an assault on the US from their nonexistent bases in Venezuela.