So, you know, I think if we take the US administration at its word, and we accept that these boats are, in fact, narco traffickers, if they are bringing drugs, and that they do represent this potential threat to the US, then this may be understood as this kind of definitive force that we’re seeing in the Caribbean Sea, and the goal here is to simply stop the flow of drugs into the country. But if others are correct in suggesting that the goal of these actions is not necessarily a tactical decision that we’re seeing on the part of the US government, but maybe it’s a part of a broader political strategy to either escalate tensions with Venezuela, to draw them into some kind of conflict that gives the US justification for some other kind of action, maybe some type of regime oriented covert action inside of Venezuela. They weren’t necessarily friendly at the time, but he also wasn’t taking this harsh military stance at the time either, and so something’s kind of different here, and that might have something to do with his cabinet, putting more pressure on him, or some kind of mix of conversations that are happening across policy domains in the administration, and I don’t have the facts or the information to really tell you definitively but that’s my sense, is that there are more moving parts, and we have a change of personnel in the Trump administration, and that could really be impacting what we’re seeing in the region.
Author: By Kaeden Thomas
Published at: 2025-11-19 23:00:38
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