By speaking of a ‘Blockade’ he is wandering into uncharted water for the US Military….
The US has a list of ‘sanctioned’ ships…..
Venezuela ships it’s oil to a lot of countries that are not on the judge approved sanction list….
True to his ‘beat’m into submission’ policy when dealing with things…
The idea of a ‘complete’ blockade of exports of Venezuela oil WOULD cause problems for a LOT of countries….
We hear that Venezuela war ships might start escorting out bound tankers…
Hmmmm?
Worse case scenario ?
Could we have a shooting war with US drones shot down and US war ships looking to sink other countries war ships (who would defend themselves) trying to protect their oil deliveries?
Could we have thousand’s of sailors floating around in the ocean from damaged or sunk ships because a US President ordered this?
Is ANYBODY talking ‘sense’ to Donald?
What happens next in response to Mr. Trump’s latest directive is not clear. U.S. Navy vessels in the Caribbean had already been shadowing sanctioned tankers in international waters as they approached Venezuela, aiming to deter them and prompt their captains to turn around, current and former Navy officials said on Wednesday.
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“The Trump assumption is that Maduro will simply cave,” Representative Adam Smith of Washington, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said in an interview. “But there is an alternative scenario: boats get escorts and now we’re going to have to fight to detain them.”
American officials said there was another possibility: disabling a tanker’s propulsion system with operators who would need to take care not to cause damage that would lead to a massive oil spill.
Whatever the White House and Pentagon are now weighing, “it is a major operation in and of itself,” said James G. Stavridis, a retired four-star admiral and former head of Southern Command.
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One COULD assume Cuba and by that Russia HAS some interest in this?
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