Trump puts two B-52H strategic bombers in Venezuelan airspace

The US has put at least two B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers into Venezuela’s airspace on Wednesday 15 October, as the Trump regime’s plan to steal Venezuela’s huge oil reserves ramps up.

The US ‘extrajudicial murder’ attack on a fourth civilian fishing boat so far on Monday killed all 6 people on board.

Trump now deploying B-52H bombers to Venezuela

The US has already attacked and destroyed a number of civilian fishing boats, claiming without evidence that they are ‘drug boats’ even though Venezuela is not a pipeline for illegal drugs entering the US, has moved US military forces close to the socialist-run South American country and on Tuesday 14 October authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela.

Now, flight tracking data show that the two bombers encroached significantly into Venezuela’s territory while, so far at least, staying over water, in what observers have described as a “criminal act of international aggression”:

Author and former Royal Marine Commando Scott Oliver said of the B-52H move that it exposed the Trump regime’s lies about its excuses for its regime-change attacks on Venezuela and the Maduro government:

When Washington talks about a flood of drugs pouring into the U.S., it’s selling a lie. The so-called drug war isn’t really about protecting Americans — it’s a cover story for something far more valuable: Venezuela’s oil.

If you were truly serious about stopping narcotics, where would you focus? U.S. intelligence, DEA reports, and UN maps are clear:

Mexico is the main entry point for fentanyl, heroin, and meth.

Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia remain the world’s primary cocaine producers.

Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama are essential transit hubs moving drugs northward…

So why the obsession with Venezuela when the real drug pipelines run through Mexico and Central America?

The Oil Beneath the Lie

Here’s the part U.S. officials rarely say out loud: Venezuela sits on the largest proven oil reserves in the world, bigger than Saudi Arabia, and more than all the other nine major drug-linked countries combined.

Oil means leverage.

Oil means cash flow to a government Washington wants weakened.

Oil means long-term geopolitical influence.

Framing Venezuela as a “narco-terrorist state” gives the U.S. legal and political cover to sanction, pressure, and even carry out military strikes. It transforms a fight over resources into a righteous war against crime.

Trump’s avarice for Venezuela’s natural resources is not new.

American greed

During his first term as president US-backed far-right groups masquerading as ‘democracy campaigners’ rampaged across Venezuela, murdering police and civilians while the right’s leaders, who control shipping lines, did their best to create food shortages and economic chaos and declared the almost-unknown right-winger Juan Guaidó ‘interim president’.

The illegitimate Guaidó was then recognised as official president by the US and UK, while the ‘mainstream’ media as well as politicians in both countries pushed outright fake news about citizen uprisings and mass ‘popular’ demonstrations against the Maduro government, claimed Maduro’s election was rigged when independent election observers called it “a model for the world” and sock puppets made easily-debunked claims about life in Venezuela when they weren’t there – then the Trump government appointed an actual war criminal and practised ‘democracy destroyer’ as his ‘envoy’ to Venezuela.

Trump lost office after his first term without getting to realise his designs for regime change in Venezuela and the seizure of its natural resources, so as far as he is concerned he has unfinished war-criminal business there. Now, while he destroys democracy and due process in the US and shreds its constitution and its ‘checks and balances’, he is clearly preparing to use a similar escalation of illegal tactics against the democratically-elected government to install a puppet regime.

This time it will no doubt led by Maria Corina Machado, farcically awarded a Nobel Peace Prize last weekend and, like Guaidó before her declared without cause to be Venezuela’s ‘real’ president despite her faction boycotting this year’s presidential election, who welcomed Trump’s aggression like a good marionette, as Louise Callaghan wrote for the Murdoch Times last week:

“I totally support his strategy,” Machado told me. “And I’ve said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It’s courageous. It’s visionary.”

But attacking a speedboat? Killing 11 citizens? “I’m in favour of the US dismantling this criminal structure.”

Peace prize-worthy indeed.

Featured image via the Canary