Okay, your Eyewitness knows that Mad Maduro’s got quite a head of hair; but that doesn’t justify splitting hairs over how we should confront him in the multi-pronged war he’s waging against us. However, there’s one former Foreign Service flunkey who keeps going on and on and on, insisting we should continue to use “diplomacy as the first line of defence”! While he didn’t mention Pres Ali by name, he went after PNC’s Aubrey Norton and Gary Best for daring to mention that we should also beef up our military capabilities.
Pressie, of course, has been strengthening our Disciplined Forces for ALL the various theatres of war: land, sea, air – and that new one, space and cyberspace!! On land forces, he’s ordered that more troops be recruited and they continue to be trained by the very best around – the US Southern Command. Recollect all those joint training exercises in our jungles?? Well, if Mad Maduro is thinking of rolling over by land, he can’t do that across our southern border; he’ll have to pass through Brazilian territory to get to our Rupununi, and Lula’s already shown him the folly of THAT way. Brazilian troops are poised to kick their butts!!
So, it’s back up north, through the Cuyuni jungles, and this is where our Jungle Commandos have been training for decades in the Brazilian Jungle Warfare School!! We have the wherewithal to do what the Viet Congs did to the numerically superior American troops – whup their butts by waging guerilla warfare!! And all those Navy ships and Soviet jets the deskbound diplomatic flunkey enumerated?? Has he heard of drones in modern warfare?? Funny thing is he does, since he mentioned Ukraine holding off the Ruskies!! More spectacularly, look at the Yemenis: without a navy, enforcing a naval blockade!! Drones, baby, drones??
So, he doesn’t think our fellas can handle drones?? Well, what does he think those US Special Forces trainers have been doing?? Just showing us how to dig trenches and hide sharpened bamboos in them to impale the Venezuelans?? Well, they do that, but drone training is now old hat – just upping those dame-playing skills!!
Now, none of this means we would avoid diplomacy; but could the old diplomat tell us how effectively these multilateral guardians of the world order, that we’ll woo, do, as with good ole Rashleigh Jackson??
Point of the matter is that Pressy’s already gone beyond where any of the diplomat’s 70s heroes would’ve gone. He even allowed the fifth columnist Ralph Gonzalves to set up a face-to-face with Mad Maduro. How many seas must a white dove sail…Before she sleeps in the sand? The answer ain’t blowin’ in no wind – it’s staring in our faces.
We gotta do whatever it takes to stymie Mad Maduro!!
…peace offer
In a two-and-a-half-hour conversation with Russia’s Putin, Pres Trump did what few thought he could do: talk tough and get as much as he gave to Russia in his efforts to bring peace to the three-year Ukraine war. At this stage, the White House readout says it all: “Both leaders agreed this conflict needs to end with a lasting peace. They also stressed the need for improved bilateral relations between the United States and Russia. The blood and treasure that both Ukraine and Russia have been spending in this war would be better spent on the needs of their people.
“This conflict should never have started, and should have been ended long ago with sincere and good faith peace efforts. The leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace. These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East.”
