Little by little, the partisans of the Cebrowski doctrine are advancing
their pawns. If they must cease creating wars in the Greater Middle East,
they’ll just turn around and inflame the Caribbean Basin. Above all, the
Pentagon is planning to assassinate an elected head of state, ruin his country,
and undermine the unity of Latin-America.
John Bolton, the new US National Security
Advisor, has relaunched the Pentagon’s project for the destruction of the State
structures in the Caribbean Basin.
We
remember that in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Secretary for Defense
at that time, Donald Rumsfeld, created the Office of Force Transformation and
nominated Admiral Arthur Cebrowski as its Director. Its mission was to train
the US army for its new role in the era of financial globalisation. It was
designed to change military culture in order to destroy the State structures of
the regions which were not connected to the global economy. The first chapter
of this plan consisted of dislocating the « Greater Middle East ». The second
stage was intended to perform the same task in the « Caribbean Basin ». The
plan was designed to destroy some twenty coastal and insular States, with the
exception of Colombia, Mexico and as far as possible, territories belonging to the
United Kingdom, the United States, France and Holland.
When he arrived at the White House, President Donald Trump opposed the
Cebrowski plan. However, two years later, he has so far only been able to
prevent the Pentagon and NATO from handing over States to the terrorist groups
they employ (the « Caliphate »), but not to stop manipulating terrorism.
Concerning the Greater Middle East, he has managed to diminish the tension, but
the wars still continue there at lower intensity. Concerning the Caribbean
Basin, he restrained the Pentagon, forbidding them to launch direct military
operations.
Last May, Stella Calloni
revealed a note from Admiral Kurt Tidd, Commander in Chief of SouthCom,
exposing the operations aimed at Venezuela [1]. A second penetration was simultaneously
implemented in Nicaragua, and a third, running for the last half century,
against Cuba.
Working from several previous
analyses, we concluded that the destabilisation of Venezuela – beginning with
the guarimbas movement, continued by the attempted coup d’etat of February 2015
(Operation Jericho) [2], then by attacks on the national currency
and the organisation of emigration – would end with military operations [3] led from Brazil, Colombia and Guyana.
Multinational manoeuvres of troop transport were organised by the United States
and their allies in August 2017 [4]. This was made possible by the election of
pro-Israëli President Jair Bolsonaro, who will come to power in Brasilia on 1
January 2019.
The next Vice-President of
Brazil will be General Hamilton Mourão, whose father played an important role
in the pro-US military coup d’etat of 1964. He has made himself famous by his
declarations against Presidents Lula and Rousseff. In 2017, he declared – on
behalf of the Grand Orient of Brazil – that the time for a new military coup
d’etat had arrived. Finally, he was re-elected with President Bolsonaro. In an
interview with the magazine Piaui, he announced
an impending overthrow of the Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, and the
deployment of a Brazilian « peace » force (sic). Faced with the gravity of
these statements, which constitute a violation of the United Nations Charter,
elected President Bolsonaro declared that no-one had any intention of going to
war with anyone, and that his Vice-President talked too much.
In
any case, during a Press conference on 12 December 2018, President Maduro
revealed that US National Security Advisor John Bolton was handling the
coordination between the teams of Colombian President Iván Duque and those of
the Brazilian Vice-President. A group of 734 mercenaries is currently being
trained in Tona (Colombia) in order to perpetrate a false flag attack,
allegedly by Venezuela, against Colombia – thereby justifying a Colombian war
against Venezuela. The war would be under the command of Colonel Oswaldo
Valentín García Palomo, who is today in hiding after the attempted
assassination by drone of President Maduro during the anniversary of the
National Guard on 4 August 2018. These mercenaries are supported by Special
Forces stationed on US military bases in Tolemaida (Colombia) and Eglin (Florida).
The US plan is to take over, from the beginning of the conflict, the three
Venezuelan Libertador military bases of Palo Negro, Puerto Cabello and
Barcelona.
The US National Security
Council is attempting to convince various states not to recognise Nicolás
Maduro’s second mandate (he was re-elected last May, but will assume power with
the New Year). This is why the states of the Lima Group contested the
Presidential ballot even before it took place, and illegally forbade Venezuelan
consulates from organising it. Furthermore, the migration crisis turns out to
be just one more manipulation – many of the Venezuelans who fled the monetary
crisis believing that they would easily find work in another Latin-American
country are today trying to return home. But the Lima Group prevents them from
doing so, forbidding Venezuelan planes who are attempting to repatriate them to
use their air space, as well as interdicting the buses which have come to help
them cross the borders.
Everything is therefore
happening as if we were watching a remake of the
events which bloodied the Greater Middle East after the attacks of 11 September
2001. The main point is not the military actions, but the appearance of
disorder that the events present. First of all, it’s intended to confuse people
into making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear [5]. In the space of five years, Venezuela and
Nicaragua, which used to enjoy a positive image abroad, are now being wrongly
described as « failed states ». While the history of the Sandinistas and their
struggle against the Somoza dictatorship has not yet been re-written, it is
taken for granted that Hugo Chávez Frías was a « Communist dictator » (sic),
despite the fact that his country experienced a massive economical and
political leap forward during his Presidency. It will soon become possible to
destroy these states without anyone complaining.
Time is passing more and more
rapidly. When, in 1823, US President James Monroe decided to close the Americas
to European colonisation, he could not have imagined that 50 years later his
decision would morph into an affirmation of US imperialism. Just as today, when
President Donald Trump declared, on the day of his investiture, that the time
for régime change was over, he did not imagine that he would be betrayed by his
own people. Nonetheless, on 1 November 2018, his Security Advisor John Bolton
declared in Miami that Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela formed a « troïka of
tyranny ». Then his Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis, affirmed on 1
December, before the Reagan National Defense Forum, that elected President
Maduro is an « irresponsible despot » who « has to go » [6].
—
[1] « Plan
to overthrow the Venezuelan Dictatorship – “Masterstroke” »,
Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, Voltaire Network, 23
février 2018. “The United States “Master Stroke” against Venezuela”,
by Stella Calloni, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire
Network, 17 May 2018.
[2] “Obama
failed his coup in Venezuela”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger
Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 24 February 2015.
[3] “General
Jacinto Perez Arcay considers the invasion of Venezuela “inevitable””,
Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 12
June 2016.
[4] “Large-scale
manoeuvres encircling Venezuela”, by Manlio Dinucci, Translation
Anoosha Boralessa, Il Manifesto (Italy)
, Voltaire Network, 23 August 2017.
[5] “Venezuela,
an impossible intervention”, by Julio Yao Villalaz, Translation
Anoosha Boralessa, Voltaire Network, 3
March 2018.
[6] “Mattis condemns Venezuela’s Maduro as a ’despot’ who has
to go”, Reuters, Phil
Stewart, December 1, 2018.
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intellectual, founder and chairman of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace
Conference. His columns specializing in international relations feature in
daily newspapers and weekly magazines in Arabic, Spanish and Russian. His last
two books published in English : 9/11 the Big Lie and Pentagate.
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