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If you look at this article with a squint - it seems to be a publicized threat from the US government to the Maduro regime, loosely veiled as an independent new
by jalapenos 11mo ago
If you look at this article with a squint - it seems to be a publicized threat from the US government to the Maduro regime, loosely veiled as an independent news article?
- portaouflop 11mo agoIdk the actions the US takes in the Caribbean are the threat and Reuters is reporting on those actions? It would be weirder imo if they didn’t write about it and afaict they are just looking at publicly available OS data.
- jalapenos 11mo agoJust the way the article's formulated, e.g. mixing in a reference to how Maduro's generals will be scared by this - how do they know that? Looks more like "hey generals & Maduro, here's what's coming for you if you don't bend to us"
- portaouflop 11mo agoLooking at what happened in Iran and how unpredictable the US is recently it would almost be stupid to not be scared.
- Thorrez 11mo agoThe article is the threat? Or the actual buildup of military assets?
- FrustratedMonky 11mo agoOr the actual missiles hitting boats.
- azernik 11mo agoThe leaks that led to the article
- Thorrez 11mo agoLeaks about a military buildup are only possible if there's an actual military buildup. Unless the leaks are false. Is there any indication the information is false?
- azernik 11mo agoMilitary buildups can also happen without leaks. Leaks can be a strategy to turn a military buildup into political/psychological leverage.
- Thorrez 11mo agoThe strategy could be buildup + leak. The leak by itself isn't the strategy unless it's giving false information. The buildup requires much more effort than the leak. So in the buildup + leak strategy, the vast majority of effort goes to the buildup, not the leak.
- exasperaited 11mo agoDaddy wants a fight to prove he's a man and make everyone admire and adore him like he deserves to be admired and adored, so he's picking on the guy everyone wants gone. If you understand what is going on in terms of Trump's very personal, broken malignant psychology and his very literal tendency to agree with the last person who spoke to him, you can see very old-fashioned US business interests have persuaded him to gin up an old, old fight. (Always interesting to think that Trump may be projecting his own faults onto Maduro; every accusation a confession) The last time this happened, Hugo Chavez very nearly had a much shorter trip in a helicopter than was scheduled, and the US ambassador rushed down from the embassy uncomfortably too early to congratulate the new guy only to find that the new guy was still the old guy. Almost as if they were expecting something to happen that didn't. (Don't read this as a suggestion that I think Maduro is legitimate; I don't.)
- cindyllm 11mo ago[dead]