When Donald Trump has been asked about the reason he’s pressuring Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to step down and threatening military action against the country, he consistently blames the South American leader for two things: drugs and migrants.
As the Trump administration continues its strikes on alleged drug vessels at sea, the president has threatened that attacks against drug cartels on land in Venezuela would begin “very soon.” Experts who have modeled what would happen if Trump went ahead with even limited strikes warn Venezuela could see mass displacement and a new refugee surge like the 2017 crisis Trump blames on Maduro that led to thousands of Venezuelans moving to the US.
A Niskanen Center study released last month modeling refugee movements based on different types of US military action found that strikes could spur 1.7 million to 3 million additional people to flee Venezuela within just a few years if the attacks triggered a brief internal conflict.
I mean…I don’t expect a war…what I expect is some made-for-TV explosions and some fake body counts. Then I expect the right wing to start attacking, killing, and exiling the leftists with impunity.
¿Why not both?
It will definitely, unfortunately, be one-sided and unnecessary. But it is what our government specializes in. Not a maduro fan. But any of the world powers whether it’s the US, Russia, or China. Actively attacking or saber rattling against neighbors, can get fucked.
I’m sure they’re just as good at bombing refugee ships and claiming they’re terrorists as they are at bombing fishing ships and claiming they’re drug lords
The US is used to sending all the refugees to Europe when they start wars in the middle and far east.
