Your Eyewitness was pretty chuffed to see Pressie visiting SOUTHCOM’s Headquarters in Doral, Florida. Suriname’s been getting too big for its britches in daring to challenge us to develop our own country! How dare they?? The New River Triangle is ours, was ours, and will ALWAYS be ours; and we owe them no explanation for building an airstrip – or whatever! – down there!! Even if we were building a site for launching missiles, that’s our business!!
We’re pretty palsy-walsy with them right now – cooperating to develop their gas reserves, and building a bridge across the Corentyne River and all; so, why couldn’t they just pick up a phone and express whatever concern they might have? Summoning our ambassador and delivering a protest note to Tacuba Lodge can mean only one thing: they want to derail our oil-fuelled success by raising the spectre of diplomatic unrest – or worse – on our eastern border, in order to scare away investors from Berbice.
And this is where the Yanks – in the form of SOUTHCOM – come in!!
We’ve already been fighting off Mad Maduro and his land grab over to the west – and it would appear that even the lame duck Biden, in his dotage, has woken up to the fact that he can’t treat that megalomaniac with kid gloves. Biden’s finally accepted that Mad Maduro rigged the July elections by now referring to Opposition presidential candidate Gonzalez as “President-elect”!! With hardliners taking over on Jan 20, 2025: Trump as Commander in Chief; Mark Rubio as Secretary of State, and Pete Hesgeth as Defence Secretary, you can bet your bottom dollar that SOUTHCOM’s gonna be part of the strategy to deal with Mad Maduro; and while they’re at it, any threat from Suriname!!
It’s important that US Ambassador Theriot did accompany Pressie, but more so that he was greeted by Air Force Major General Julian C. Cheater, SOUTHCOM’s Director of Strategy, Policy, and Plans!! They would want to hear from the horse’s mouth – so to speak – that Guyana would have no objection to cooperating with them as they launch a multi-pronged strategy to remove the anti-democratic and destabilizing dictator who’s driven out more than a quarter of his population!!
Let’s not forget that the then President, David “Sanctimonious Gangster” Granger, had teed-off the US by preventing it from even broadcasting radio messages into Venezuela!!
Now, some folks might’ve been surprised to see former Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch at the SOUTHCOM meet, but that means they don’t know that after her stint was completed here, she assumed duties as “Civilian Deputy to the Commander and Foreign Policy Advisor, US SouthCom”!! We got a friend at SOUTHCOM!!
The Surinamese diplomatic flap should remind us that it is during peace that we must prepare for war!!
…too late?
One of the problems in tying bundle with the US is their very short attention span. Your Eyewitness suspects this might be a consequence of the solipsism of being the sole superpower left standing after the Cold War had ended in 1989. No one else really mattered, so why extend oneself!?! We see this in their relationship with Africa – a continent with 54 countries and 1.5 billion people!! During the Cold War, they merely destabilized several countries for losing their plot!
But while ‘the US cat’ was away, ‘the Chinese mice’ have been playing, and they have now grown into monsters!! In trying to play catchup as his presidency peters out, US President Biden finally visited Angola and promised $600 million for a railway project linking that country to Zambia and the Congo for mineral exports. That amount is dwarfed by China’s US$21.7 billion invested in 2023 alone!! But, like with our GtE loan request, we’ll be blamed if we get the money from China. So, let’s jump through the hoops!!
…protest justification
The Opposition’s single-minded, continuous concoction of “reasons” why they would lose the 2025 elections because of “flaws” in the system is simply to justify the protests – accompanied by violence – that will then be unleashed!!
