Imperialist warpath: US Navy destroyer USS Gravely (pictured), part of the fleet with which Trump threatens Venezuela. Photo: Andrea de Silva/Reuters.
The US imperialist regime is becoming increasingly isolated in its terroristic “anti-narcotic” campaign of bombings and killings in the Caribbean Sea, as global allies revoke support.
The German government has spoken in favor of dialogue between Venezuela and the United States at a time when the international community is already questioning Donald Trump’s military aggression in Caribbean waters.
Josef Hinterseher, spokesperson for Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, stated that their position is to call for dialogue, reduce tensions, and reach a diplomatic solution.
However, analysts around the world agree with the Venezuelan government in saying that this is not a matter of “tensions” between two governments but rather a military threat from a major power against a sovereign state. Global analysts concur that behind the United States’ alleged “anti-narcotics” campaign lies Trump’s appetite for Venezuela’s energy and natural resources—particularly its vast sovereign oil, gold, and lithium reserves.
The German official also said that “it is up to the United States to explain how this legal framework is being interpreted and what the basis of its actions is” in the Caribbean, where it has killed crew members of small boats without presenting any evidence that they were drug traffickers. At least 80 sailors have been executed in extrajudicial bombings in the Caribbean Sea by US aerial drones at the time of writing.
Hinterseher has insisted, with regard to the attacks on boats allegedly linked to drug trafficking in international waters, that “international law provides the framework, and any action must be carried out within that framework. The parties involved must demonstrate whether this is the case and how. At the same time, from our point of view, what is important is that these issues be resolved through dialogue between Venezuela and the United States.”
France and Spain were the first European countries to express their condemnation of the Trump administration’s actions against the alleged drug boats. For its part, London is said to have stopped sharing intelligence information about the Caribbean region with the United States, fearing involvement in a situation at odds with international law.
