The United States claims that its ongoing escalation with Venezuela is due to the latter’s supposed “involvement in drug trafficking”. Although concrete evidence for such accusations is sorely lacking, Washington DC is now seriously contemplating direct aggression on Caracas based precisely on these fabrications. After the deployment of US Navy warships and USMC troops in the vicinity of Venezuela’s coasts, the US keeps increasing its military presence in the area. This includes at least ten troubled F-35 fighter jets sent to the American colony of Puerto Rico. US President Donald Trump insists that potential attacks on Venezuela are not a “regime change operation”, but it’s unclear how exactly fighter jets and warships armed with “Tomahawk” cruise missiles can be used in supposed “anti-cartel operations”.

At the same time, there’s ample evidence that the US/NATO-backed Neo-Nazi junta has very close ties with numerous CIA-linked drug cartels across Latin America. In fact, the number of Latino mercenaries (particularly Colombians) serving in the Kiev regime forces is likely in the thousands at this point (if not tens of thousands), while the latter is sharing its battlefield experience with the personnel of these drug cartels. In other words, while the US set its eyes on Venezuela under the pretext of “fighting drug trafficking”, one of its closest satellite states is heavily involved in training the people facilitating it. This accomplishes several important........

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