cubaninsider: Rubio's Caribbean War

cubaninsider: Rubio's Caribbean War: Unless  Sanity & Decency  Arise !! Chart update courtesy of  Forbes Media .      This Iranian ship   Fortune  has now entered V...

cubaninsider: Rubio's Caribbean War

cubaninsider: Rubio's Caribbean War: Unless  Sanity & Decency  Arise !!      This Iranian ship   Fortune  has now entered Venezuelan waters loaded with oil for Venezue...

Rubio's Caribbean War

Unless Sanity & Decency Arise!!

Chart update courtesy of Forbes Media.

     This Iranian ship Fortune has now entered Venezuelan waters loaded with oil for Venezuela that defies U. S. sanctions and warnings. Four more Iranian oil-ladened ships are several days behind the Fortune.

     Venezuelan fighter planes like these hovered around the Fortune once it reached Venezuelan waters although U. S. planes and warships are also in the area.

     But the Fortune has already been welcomed to Venezuela and, at least for now, it is in peaceful waters.

     Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has a $15 million U. S. bounty on his head, said, "We don't know what the United States will do but we know what we have to do to survive. We need Iranian refined oil short-term and we need to upgrade our oil refineries to produce all the oil we need. The things we need to live are things we will fight for...to the end if it comes to that."

       This map shows that what some are calling Rubio's Cribbean War could still start in the next forty-eight hours. Six Iranian ships with oil bound for Venezuela are scheduled to be arriving in Venezuelan waters by Sunday or Monday, May 24th and 25th, in defiance of U. S. warnings and sanctions against both Venezuela and Iran. On the map you can follow the path of the five ships from Iran to Venezuela, with the Fortune in the lead followed by Forest, Petunla, Faxon, and Clavell. Fortune is dangerously close to a Venezuelan port now.

     Venezuela's Defense Minister, General Vladimir Padrino, repeated again this weekend that there will be war if the U. S. tries to block the passage of the Iranian ships. General Padrino said, "The United States, perhaps, has the power to starve us to death with sanctions and blockades and it, perhaps, has the military firepower to annihilate us. But we have international law on our side even if much of the world is too afraid of the United States to admit such things. If we or any country is not allowed to have consenting trade with another willing country, we must fight to preserve that right or we must meekly surrender and become a slave to the objective country. Venezuela, and I assume Iran, will choose to die fighting rather than to meekly surrender to any greedy and criminal nation that seeks to either make us slaves or to eviscerate us"

   If Indeed Rubio's Caribbean War starts in the waters off the northern coast of Venezuela, the first shots will likely be fired from the powerful U. S. naval force already patrolling the area or be fired by Venezuelan forces directed by General Padrino. If that happens, Iran's Nour News Agency reports this weekend that U. S. interests in the Middle East will quickly "be targeted with problems equal to or above the problems our ships will be facing in the waters off the Venezuela coasts." Like Venezuela, Iran is beset with massive domestic obstacles as well as stifling U. S.  sanctions. In other words, both nations are in dire and drastic shape, and their desperations are seemingly ready to boil over as the five Iranian oil ships near Venezuela ports. Ironically, Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the entire world, but the nation's refineries are in  bad shape. But Iran, also in defiance of U. S. sanctions and warnings, has recently flown 17 planeloads of engineers and equipment to Venezuela to repair the refineries so they can return to refining Venezuela's heavy crude oil into petrol. All the oil in the five Iranian ships would be USED UP in Venezuela within a few days but getting the refineries back in productive shape is, in the long run, even more important. General Padrino said this week, "The U. S. criminals are determined to make sure that we do not regain the capacity to refine our oil, and that fuels the U. S. determination to provoke war in the region."

     For weeks now the U. S. has had a powerful contingent of warships and planes, including these P-8 Poseidon vessels, in the waters off Venezuela. It appears this weekend that the words of Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino will be  the most important and germane words or actions, but there are others who have chimed in as well.

      Venezuela's Ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, said, "If the United States blocks the Iranian ships from reaching Venezuela, it is an act of war."

       The President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, said, "If the U. S. presents any problems to our ships now heading to Venezuela, there will be war. If the U. S. wants us to starve or to die, we deserve the right to die fighting."

       Speaking for the U. S. State Department, Morgan Ortagus,  a close Rubio ally, said, "Venezuela looted nine tons of gold to pay Iran for the oil." Ummmm...? Really?

    Powerfully supported by Miami and Washington as Venezuela's President, opposition leader Juan Guaido said, "Maduro looted nine tons of gold to pay Iran for the oil. And 17 illegal Iranian plane trips have landed in Venezuela with engineers and material to restore Venezuela's oil refineries."

      Miami's pick as Venezuela's President, Juan Guaido, needs Washington's help to oust President Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela's leader. And at the moment he has it.

    Miami's anti-Cuban Counter Revolutionaries believe that Maduro's removal and Guaido's takeover in Venezuela must TAKE PLACE before Donald Trump's first term as U. S. President ends. The next presidential election in the U. S., pitting Trump vs. Joe Biden, is fast approaching in November.

     From the beginning, Juan Guaido and the opposition forces in Venezuela have depended on Miami's and Little Havana's Marco Rubio as their U. S. conduit for desired regime-changes in Latin America. Rubio, of course, is blindly concerned with ANTI-Cuban/PRO-Miami regime-changes throughout Latin America. Guaido in Venezuela, of course, agrees with Rubio on that score. Americans might pay dearly for their agreement.

     And so...Rubio and his buddy Guaido are almost surely affixed on this map, or one like it, this weekend. If Rubio's Caribbean War starts in the next few days it likely be when the Iranian ship Fortune gets a little closer to Venezuela. As you can see above, it's almost there. Will a powderkeg or peace ensue?

     So far, for the past two years, Guaido and Rubio mostly used their Smart Phones to plot the regime-change in Venezuela. As the war now seems much more plausible, I think we can assume Guaido and Rubio will also monitor the results on their Smart Phones too. Meanwhile, of course, others will be fighting and paying for Rubio's Caribbean War. {Maybe for a long time}.

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Can Rubio Ignite A Caribbean War?

My Answer is: Yes!!

     Ken Silverstein, arguably the best {and bravest} journalist in Washington, says, "Marco Rubio is heads and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it comes to corruption and chicanery." That, of course, takes in a lot territory considering the startling number of crooked journalists, lobbyists, and politicians there indeed are in Washington. During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, fellow Republican Donald Trump brushed Rubio off with the derisive label "Little Marco"...and Trump then embellished his disdain for Rubio by, among other things, naming the right-wing billionaires who long-ago bought-and-paid-for Rubio.

     Yet, as President of the United States Trump felt obliged to name Rubio as the USA's Cuban dictator on U. S. soil.

    Obviously, President Trump believes that Little Marco Rubio from Little Havana can make sure that Trump gets Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes that will be needed in November's next presidential election.

     Iran, a prime enemy of the U. S., is at the moment sending five oil-ladened ships to struggling and embattled Venezuela, which Marco Rubio and the U. S. believe is the next Cuban-ally in Latin America that has to be transitioned to Miami-friendly status and totally removed from being Havana-friendly.

    Venezuela's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino told the Reuters News Agency that any U. S. attempt to stop the "legal trade between us and Iran will be resisted by the Venezuelan military." Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves but internal mistakes and problems greatly exacerbated by drastic U. S. sanctions have left the nation desperate economically and socially. But militarily, while not capable of beating the U. S. alone, Venezuela has a strong military of its own because of help from Russia and China.

    Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping both have Superpower militaries that the U. S. doesn't need to tangle with. Yet, it seems that Rubio thinks that the U. S. can quickly and easily win a Caribbean War against...China, Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba...with Cuba, of course, Rubio's prize.

     Back in January of 2019 when Rubio and the U. S. designated opposition leader Juan Guaido as the real President of Venezuela, many believed that President Nicolas Maduro's days were numbered. That was because major U. S. allies Brazil and Colombia in Latin America strongly support the move and dozens of other reputable nations such as Canada want Maduro gone. But then...Russia and China showed resistance to replacing Maduro with Guaido and both Superpowers beefed up Maduro militarily. The typical photo above shows a Chinese  Boeing 747 airplane and a Russian ILYushin-62M airplane side-by-side at Venezuela's Simon Bolivar International Airport. Apparently, even Rubio couldn't persuade Trump to mess with major Russian and Chinese assets in Venezuela. Therefore, since January of 2019 the removal of Maduro has been stalled.

     And for many months now Juan Guaido and Marco Rubio have been trying to see when and how the incomparable U. S. economy and military can make Guaido the next Miami-friendly/anti-Havana President of Venezuela. Rubio insists that poor little U.S.-blockaded Cuba is the only thing protecting the "Maduro regime." But...tuh...what about Russia and China.? Well in Bogota, Colombia, it is known that Guaido met with U.S.-Miami officials to discuss how Russia and China might accept a U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela. Knowing that Russia and China have major investments in Venezuela, as well as holding major Venezuela debt, it appears that Guaido and Rubio are trying to persuade Commander-in-Chief Trump that the U. S. needs to compensate Russia and China to make sure those Superpowers will accept a Venezuelan coup.

     This photo shows Juan Guaido explaining some of his Venezuelan strategy to his most important buddy, the self-serving anti-Cuban zealot Marco Rubio. If you are an opposition leader seeking a regime-change in Latin America these days, you surely want Rubio's phone numbers -- in Little Havana, the White House, and in the U. S. Congress!!!

     Although Guaido obviously considers Rubio his prime asset, his access to Trump at the White House is also vital.

     Any Latin American opposition leader craves the support of the President of the United States and, thanks to Rubio, Guaido perhaps has Trump ready to go to war for him.

      This photo shows Juan Guaido's wife Fabiola Rosales at the White House with President Trump. As with all Republican presidents, any key anti-Cuban in Latin American has carte blanche permission for presidential meetings with Trump if they solicit the approval of Trump's major anti-Cuban zealots -- Marco Rubio, Mario Diaz-Balart, Mauricio Claver-Carone, and Bob Menendez. Those four will never allow anyone with sane or moderate views regarding Cuba come near Trump.

    So, yes...as of May 22nd, 2020...the President and Commander-in-Chief of the United States, Donald Trump, is the puppeteer that is installing Juan Guaido as the anti-Cuban President of Venezuela.

    But make no mistake about the fact that Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress are in total control of President Trump's Cuban policies...and those policies are determined to make Miami-allied Juan Guaido the next President of Venezuela, replacing Havana-allied Nicolas Maduro.

    Yes, Trump's CUBA POLICY could lead to a Caribbean War as early as the last week of May, 2020...especially if those five Iranian oil ships now heading to Venezuela are attacked by the U. S. If Russia and/or China decides to militarily support the audacious but desperate attempt by Venezuela and Iran to defy a well-defined Trump edict pertaining to the regime-change in Venezuela. In fact, a bloody situation could evolve if Russia and China back off and just let Venezuela and Iran try to protect those Iran-to-Venezuela oil shipments.

      Believing that he has to have Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes if he hopes to get re-elected in November, President Trump turned the USA's CUBAN POLICY over to Little Havana's "Little" Marco Rubio. Now the American people might be asked to support the whirlwind of a Caribbean War that might be winnable but will then likely have  expersive and dastardly revolutionary-type repercussions for decades to come.

     A superstar Democracy that puts U. S. POLICY TOWARDS CUBA in the hands of Marco Rubio is asking for problems.

   From Miami to Cuba to Venezuela, the last thing the Caribbean Sea needs is a Caribbean War. Yet, with Miami using Trump's tenure in the White House to finally fulfill its decades-old efforts to regain control of Cuba, it appears a Caribbean War is possible between now and November's upcoming presidential election.

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What IF Trump Nuked Cuba?

Would Americans Care??
{Probably Not!!!}

     Today is May 20th, 2020. The President and Commander-in-Chief of the United States, Donald Trump, has a lot on his plate. But today, like every day of his presidency since January 20th of 2017, he has had to make sure he addresses, both privately and publicly, the two prime obsessions of the extremist Miami/Little Havana Cubans, and those two obsessions are {1} To use Republican White Houses to continue to pump gushing pipelines of tax dollars to Little Havana for a myriad of lucrative Cuban embarrassments such as the decades-old laughable but bankable anti-Cuban/pro-Batista propaganda machine known as Radio-TV Marti; and {2} to use Republican White Houses to continue to fund and promote a 7th-decade of genocidal efforts to re-capture the island of Cuba for a second vicious generation of Batistiano-loving Cuban-Americans. In that milieu today -- May 20th, 2020 -- Trump began his day with a powerful proclamation that could only have been written by the most vicious and self-serving Cuban zealots such as the unchecked Rubio, Claver-Carone, Diaz-Balart brothers, Menendez, etc. Assuming, as always, that both the American people and the U. S. media are too stupid or too afraid to object, here is the first paragraph of Trump's laughable but authentic proclamation today that designates MAY 20th-2020 as CUBA'S INDEPENDENCE DAY: "On Cuban Independence Day we recognize the patriots who fought to liberate Cuba from the colonial oppression and build a society founded on freedom. We continue to stand with the Cuban people as they seek those fundamental rights, and we express our commitment to supporting them as they continue to fight for freedom and democracy." The rest of Trump's CUBAN PROCLAMATION on May 20th-2020 continues the lies that Americans and the media have been forced to swallow regarding Cuba since the 1898 Spanish-American War. The BIGGEST lie is this: When Little Havana Cubans or Republican presidents speak for CUBANS ON THE ISLAND, Americans are not supposed to know what CUBANS ON THE ISLAND are saying about it. And the truth is: If Cubans on the island believed what Little Havana and Trump are saying, Little Havana would have RECAPTURED Cuba many decades ago!!!

     Like all Republican presidents since the 1950s, President Trump has been willfully forced or obligated to trek to Little Havana in Miami to confirm total allegiance to not the majority of Cubans but ONLY to the most richest and most powerful of the Cuban zealots. That has been especially true to the three Bush presidencies but it also pertains 100% to all Republican administrations. In a two-party political system, that is a major anti-democracy problem but the last two generations of  Americans and media in the United States have been forced to hold their noses and accept it. Trump, of course, went beyond even the Bush administrations when he activated Title III of Helms-Burton. Even President George W. Bush REFUSED to activate Title III because brave and clear-minded people clearly comprehend that Title III legalizes genocide from the United States of America to isolate, starve, deprive, make miserable, and eviscerate everyday Cubans on the island to appease a mere handful of vicious Cubans in Little Havana/Miami, Newark, and in the U. S. Congress.

     There is no ambiguity regarding Title III of Helms-Burton. It is legal U. S. genocide against everyday Cubans on the island...nothing more and nothing less. Yet, both the American people and the mainstream U. S. media are obligated to accept it...even though they/we know EXACTLY what it is!!

      There, of course, has also never been any ambiguity regarding what the Helms-Burton Act has legalized since 1996 - and that is...pipelines of tax dollars from Washington to Little Havana to make rich Cubans richer and...secondarily...to recapture Cuba. The skull & bones was added to Helms-Burton back in 2019 when President Trump activated Title III.

    When ONLY a second-generation of ONLY lifelong Counter Revolutionary Cubans like Mauricio Claver-Carone are the ONLY people allowed to advise President Trump regarding Cuba, it reveals a nagging truth that should shame Democracy-lovers: The island nation of Cuba remains in May of 2020 the most flagrant damnation of what the U. S. democracy once was and was intended to be!!!

    Since January of 1959...when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the brutal U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba...Americans have been literally bombarded with Counter Revolutionary/pro-Batistiano/Mafiosi propaganda. Unchecked propaganda in authoritarian nations works...and it has worked in America's democracy too. So...uh...let's see -- IS REVOLUTIONARY CUBA THE WORST GOVERNMENT IN HISTORY AND WAS THE MOB-RUN BATISTA-MAFIA GOVERNMENT THE BEST IN HISTORY!!! Please don't place question marks behind that sentence because, sadly, it might not be healthy to do so.

      As a second-generation Counter Revolutionary Cuban, Ali Pardo is a Superstar in the Republican Party and she is one of the Prime Superstars in President Trump's ongoing re-election campaign. Today -- May 20th-2020 -- on the day that Trump issued his CUBAN INDEPENDENCE PROCLAMATION -- Ali Pardo wrote and presented a powerful pro-Batistiano/anti-Cuban proclamation of her own. Her full article is on the Fox News website today and it is entitled: "Ali Pardo: Trump Supports Freedom For Cuba's People While Biden Would Abandon U. S. Commitment To Freedom." It is an upfront example of a second-generation of anti-Cuban Cuban-American propagandist using major forums to saturate Americans with pro-Batista, anti-revolutionary rhetoric...AND BY ALL MEANS make sure you swallow it!!!!

     Not only Fox News, but even the left-wing mainstream outlets vehemently opposed to Trump are obligated to promote the Cuban views of extreme anti-Cuban propagandists such as Ali Pardo while ignoring the majority viewpoints from non-propagandists such as...Peter Kornbluh at the U. S. National Archives in Washington; Emily Mendrala at the Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americans, Patrick Leahy in the U. S. Senate, etc., etc. While renowned, honest, unbiased, knowledgeable Cuban experts such as Kornbluh, Mendrala, Leahy, etc., etc., are easily accessible to the U. S. media, they are never allowed to use the U. S. media to express their sane and important views about US-Cuban relations. Yet, extreme anti-Cuban propagandists such as Ali Pardo, who is now being highly paid to promote Trump's RE-election campaign, can use the mainstream media to spout Cuban venom, including the genocidal Title III activation, whenever and wherever they choose to do so. But, to repeat, Cubans on the island are massively irked when people like Ali Pardo and Trump claim to SPEAK FOR THEM.

          HEY, AMERICANS!!! Keep funneling billions of tax dollars to Miami to keep funding the already rich Cubans operating the wonderful Radio-Television Marti propaganda machine!!! ANY DAY NOW it might convince Cubans in Cuba to overthrow their government!!!! So, tell your member of Congress TO KEEP SENDING billions of more of those Marti tax dollars to Little Havana in Miami!!! {Ha! Ha!}

     And remember, Americans...the U.S.-backed MAFIA IN HAVANA in the 1950's was the best and most honest GOVERNMENT in the world!!!

      And most of all, Americans...keep staying shut and keep helping THE MIAMI CUBAN MAFIA to RE-CAPTURE Cuba and then one day THE MIAMI CUBAN MAFIA hopes to CAPTURE the United States too!!!

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