VENEZUELA: TRUMP’S VIETNAM 2.0

Written by Michael Thervil

VENEZUELA: TRUMP’S VIETNAM 2.0 | PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNONWN

[Venezuela Trump Vietnam] American Marines and Army Soldiers under the Combined Jungle Operations Training Course of the U.S. Southern Command are now undergoing a 21-day jungle warfare training course in the jungles of Panama. With diplomatic tensions reaching a boiling point between America and Venezuela due to the Trump Administration executing missile strikes on what they perceive as “drug boats” an effort to combat the flow and trafficking of narcotics destined to come to the shores of America. Despite this, U.S. military officials have denied this claim. The Panamanian government, who is seen by many geopolitical analysts as a vassal state of the U.S. has agreed to allow the American military to train in its jungles.

With the Trump Administration sending an estimated 20,000 of its Troops, aircraft carriers, naval destroyers, and operating it's fighter jets as a show of force in the Caribbean; combined with the recent denial that these actions have no correlation with the training of American Troops in the juggles of Panama has the international community wondering if America is  doomed to repeat the same mistakes it encountered during the Vietnam War.

In response, Venezuela has mobilized a combined 200,000 personnel consisting of military, militia, and civilians towards its coastal borders to counter America's show of force with their own. President Nicolas Maduro stated to the Press that:

“The objective of the mobilization of Venezuelan forces to the coast were to optimize command, control, and communications and ensure here the defense of the country”.

Venezuela Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López calls the recent mobilization “a response to the imperialist threat posed by America”. Despite the Trump Administration lacking the proof that demonstrates Venezuela’s President having ties to the narcotics trade or cartel, the extrajudicial killing of Venezuelan citizens in international waters has ignited anger throughout the international community. This international outrage has prompted the U.K. to stop sharing it’s intelligence with America on any maritime movement in the Caribbean.

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The one thing that America and the rest of the world learned in the Vietnam War is that guerrilla warfare is not only exceptionally dangerous with a high kill and death ratio; but the American people didn’t have the stomach for it as American G.I. 's came back home in body bags. While it's true that most of the deaths in Vietnam were due to uncontrolled hemorrhaging (bleeding out), it's easy to predict that technology due to how advanced it’s become will be the number one driving force of death for the American military if the Trump Administration decides to continue down the path of seeking to put boots on the ground.

Maybe this is all for show, maybe it’s not. But we do know that not only did the American military fail to win the Vietnam War; but the only true victors were the member corporations of the Military Industrial Complex. Those companies are Raytheon, Caterpillar, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, Monsanto, Lockheed Martin, Dow Chemical, and Halliburton.