HUGE US MILITARY PRESENCE IN CARIBBEAN
The White Home official didn’t make clear how the army would focus “virtually solely” on interdicting Venezuelan oil. The US army operates globally, and lots of of its missions and capabilities are unrelated to maritime interdiction.
The Pentagon has constructed up a serious army presence within the Caribbean, with greater than 15,000 troops, together with an plane service, 11 different warships and greater than a dozen F-35 fighter jets. Whereas some property can help with sanctions enforcement, others aren’t suited to that function.
On Tuesday, the USA advised the United Nations it will impose and implement sanctions “to the utmost extent” to deprive Maduro of sources.
Earlier this month, Trump ordered what he referred to as a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers coming into and leaving Venezuela. The White Home official’s use of the time period “quarantine” echoes language used in the course of the 1962 Cuban missile disaster, when the administration of President John F. Kennedy averted the time period blockade to scale back the chance of escalation.
