Former Indian ambassador and diplomat M.K. Bhadrakumar, in a Dec. 27 article, suggests that the Trump Administration’s efforts against Venezuela have little to do with drugs or migration, but rather everything to do with geopolitics. And the main subject is China and its perceived influence in Latin America.
The diplomat points to China’s “Loans-for-Oil” program, which China deployed in Venezuela along with a number of other countries around the world. Bhadrakumar writes that China injected over $60 billion into Venezuela while the latter paid this debt not in dollars, but in physical barrels of crude, which in turn benefited China. This might be what the real target of the Trump Administration’s aggression against Venezuela is, he writes. “Through a naval blockade, the US is attempting to dismantle this deal and the non-dollar payment system built around it,” Badrakhumar writes.
While some of Trump’s recent actions have indicated that the U.S. might want to step back from the stage of global confrontations, such as the new National Security Strategy, Bhadrakumar suggests that there may be more going on than meets the eye. “Beijing fears that Washington might be trying to lure it into a false sense of security with its rhetoric and an ostensible geopolitical shift, so it remains cautious,” he says.
EIR has insisted repeatedly that the true aim of many in and around the Trump Administration is to use the current drama around Venezuela to go after the relationships that China and the BRICS have in Central and South America. The narrative about stopping drugs and migrants is merely a convenient justification toward that end.
