For years, your Eyewitness has been hammering away at the point that it was the Brits who left the Venezuelan sword of Damocles – today in the form of Mad Maduro – hanging over our Essequibo. Now he’s not even thinking about any moral responsibility they should have towards us: in relations between States amorality – and even immorality! – is the rule!! Your Eyewitness has identified Art VII of the 1966 Geneva Agreement – which both we and Venezuela accept as the basis for going forward – as declaring that Britain remains a party to the agreement!!
As such, when the Brits were cosying up to us to get a piece of the oil action, he didn’t think giving us visa-free entry was enough. Heck, back in the day when we were still a colony we didn’t only have visa-free entry but British passports!! But a fat lot of good it did us!! All that changed was moving from doing all the grunge work in the colonies to doing the same in Britain!! Nah…your Eyewitness was expecting a helluva lot more in the face of Mad Maduro’s annexation of two-thirds of our national territory!!
So when British junior Foreign Minister David Rutley declared: “I am in Guyana… to offer the UK’s unequivocal backing to our Guyanese friends”, he felt we were getting somewhere. But was the “unequivocal backing” only gonna be warm words and a firm handshake – like we’ve been getting from our erstwhile friends in Caricom?? Well, yesterday they made their offer a little more concrete: one of their Royal Navy’s battle ships – the 2000 ton <<<HMS Trent>>> – will be steaming into Port Georgetown in a show of force!!
Now, we’re getting somewhere!! Let’s not forget that the Brits already has experience with the evident Latin proclivity to settle old border claims with force – in the Falkland Islands annexed by Argentina!! Like Mad Maduro, they also claimed the Falklands were theirs because it was once part of the Spanish Empire!! Margaret Thatcher showed her mettle moved beyond straightening out British Labour Unions and gave a good hiding to the Argentines – who ignominiously surrendered within a couple of months!! Britannia still ruled THOSE waves!!
So, does your Eyewitness expect the deployment of a single warship will dissuade Mad Maduro from his frenzied efforts to rally Venezuelans behind him to win next year’s elections?? Nah!! But it’s a beginning of visible measures through our strategy to align with the Western powers – rather than China and Russia who’re arming Mad Maduro to his fangs!! Combined with those joint military exercises by our GDF and US Southcom forces,
Mad Maduro should be thinking twice that taking over Essequibo will be a cakewalk!
Ouch!!
…infiltration exposed
In case you’ve forgotten, Dear Reader, a brutal war’s still going on in Europe after Russia attempted to annex parts of the Ukraine!! But what we’re discovering is that the annexation and invasion is only one part of Russia’s expansionist strategy – for which their ally Mad Maduro’s been their staunchest supporter. Which strategy, of course, he’s been aping towards us. What Finland – which also borders Russia up north – identified is a new tactic being practised by the Ruskies towards them which they’ve dubbed “hybrid warfare”.
It’s the massive number of “migrants” crossing their borders into Finland – which they’ve traced to Russian operatives!! The plan obviously is to send over enough people with Russian lineage to the border region who at some point can provide Russia with the rationale for invading to “rescue” folks who prefer to be part Mother Russia!! After Finland closed its borders the Ruskies have switched to sending “migrants” from Belarus and Turkey!!
A hint to Beneba mek Quashie tek notice. Vet dem Venezuelan migrants!!
…Maduro’s rescue exposed
So, getting the US’ ok to exploit Venezuela’s Dragon Gas Field – we’re not hearing about T&T bartering for goods any more. Looks like Mad Maduro’s gonna be getting cold cash.
Is he being brought in from the cold? Merry Christmas??
