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2024-02-15 Caribbean-Latin America

Guyana Seeks Advanced Weapons as Venezuala Threatens

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Posted by lord garth 2024-02-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [33 views ] Top
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#1 In December last year, the two sides signed a Brazil-brokered agreement stating they would never use force and would refrain from threatening each other.

"...Look, you fu@ked up - you trusted us!"

- Eric Stratton, Faber College '63

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-02-15 08:57|| 2024-02-15 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Guyana is a member of the Commonwealth but the days of Lady Thatcher are distant memory. The US has only dusty briefing books somewhere in the Pentagon basement to remind them, if they looked, about the idea of "our hemisphere" and some guy named Monroe.

Venezuela has a stiffening array of Cuban and Nicaraguan allies, especially in the intelligence and internal security augmentations, that might make a go of the complex logistics and engineering ops needed to annex the western half of the country militarily. Fortunately, they have recently gotten a cash infusion from the foggy bottom morons in Washington.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-15 14:21|| 2024-02-15 14:21|| Front Page Top

#3 And Biden welcomed a lessening of sanctions on VZ and Maduro to help with gas prices in an election year

Posted by Frank G 2024-02-15 18:18|| 2024-02-15 18:18|| Front Page Top

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