According to media reports such as the Global Times, on October 3, local time, the 10 countries of the American Bolivarian League issued a joint statement, referring directly to the US military's attack on related vessels in the near sea of Venezuela, illegal invasion.
Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a ship to sink off the Venezuelan shore, killing four people on board.The U.S. claimed that the sinking ship was just drug trafficking and the people on board were also drug dealers.
However, the joint statement of the Latin American 10 states sharply pointed out that the US military is actually Illegal invasion of Venezuelan territorial watersThe fact .
The protests submitted by Venezuela to the United Nations show that the U.S. military had previously invaded 75 kilometers of the Venezuelan coastline, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the division of 12 nautical miles of territorial waters and 200 nautical miles of exclusive economic zone, the United States is the open invasion of the territorial waters of Venezuela.
As for the Trump authorities' so-called "anti-drug" excuse, it is a lie with the foot and the back of mind. and not to mention Venezuela itself is a Latin American anti-drug yet more stringent country, the problem of the U.S. drug spread, not count Venezuela's head.
Even if Venezuela actually smuggles drugs to the United States, are these drug dealers stupid? knowing that thousands of Americans, a few large warships, dozens of fighters are stuck outside, still to open a small boat, smuggling drugs to the United States under the eyes of the U.S. Navy?
Venezuelan drug dealers need to have this courage and spirit, what drug dealers do, directly pull the squad to independent arms is not good?
The problem is, knowing that such a clumsy lie cannot withstand scrutiny, the Trump administration still uses anti-drug reasons to attack ships off the coast of Venezuela. What is it for? Are you really planning to go to war with Venezuela? Or was it just a show of force?
Of course not, the Trump administration may have the intention of pressure on Venezuela, and there are factors showing force, but the game between countries, probably has a more substantial, deep motivation.
Specifically speaking, the current behavior of the Trump administration is actually, to a certain extent, imposing an armed embargo on Venezuela.
The U.S. military's attack on related ships off Venezuela's offshore waters will inevitably have a negative impact on Venezuela's trade.
In particular, Venezuela’s oil exports.Can the United States attack Venezuela’s small offshore vessels for no reason, then will it attack Venezuela’s offshore cargo vessels for the same reason?
Per, and not, but from a trade perspective, traders will not take this risk.So when Trump ordered the US military to attack the relevant ships with seemingly reckless actions and kill four people, the next overseas trade, which was already under U.S. pressure, would be deadly shocked.
To be honest, no one dares to trade freely with Venezuela under the eyes of the U.S. military.
For the Maduro government, this is bad news.
In the final analysis, the economic base determines the superstructure. If Venezuela's economy is impacted by the high-pressure policy of the United States, then there is no doubt that people's grievances will gradually gather on the Venezuelan government.
When the quantitative change reaches a qualitative change, the Maduro authorities, a legally elected government, are likely to be biased by the false public opinion propaganda in the West and become "problematic with the election".
In fact, this is a common trick when the United States first engaged in the color revolution. In vernacular, when you have no internal problems, you will use external pressure to deter you by force to force you to have internal problems.
From this perspective, the probability of a big fight between the US military and Venezuela is still relatively small, but even if there is no big fight, the pressure on Venezuela by the US military is great enough.
Of course, unlike in the past, the United States is not the United States of that time, and Latin America is not Latin America of that time.
First of all, judging from the fact that ten Latin American countries issued a joint statement pointing out that the US military's actions were illegal invasion, the current Latin American countries are unwilling to accept the fate that Latin America, as the back garden of the United States, can be harvested at will.
This statement, on the military level of the game, of course, could not ease the pressure on Venezuela, but it could still help Venezuela economically.
Specifically, even if the United States is stronger, it is not possible to cut off the land trade of Venezuela and other Latin American countries, and now the Latin American ten countries express their support for Venezuela, then in the future, even if they do not dare to directly help Venezuela and the United States to start a war, at least can continue economically for Venezuela.
For Venezuela, this is equivalent to strengthening the confidence to compete with the United States to the end.
Second, from the U.S. perspective, let’s not look at Trump’s orders, the U.S. military bombed a Venezuelan offshore small boat, scaring many countries’ merchants from daring to do business with Venezuela, but this is not the U.S. domination of the world in the 1990s.
If merchant ships of major countries such as China and Russia continue to conduct international trade with Venezuela, the United States will not have the courage to explode, at most temporarily blocking the relevant waters.
Even this will not allow for a long-term blockade, otherwise the United States will not be able to withstand the pressure from the international community.
This means that as long as Venezuela continues to actively seek cooperation with major countries such as China and Russia, the so-called "armed embargo" by the United States will likely not succeed.
Unless Trump is really ready to fight Venezuela, it is not impossible to simply rely on the current level of military oppression to force internal changes in Venezuela, but it will take a long time to ferment. The Trump administration does not have this time.
In summary, while the United States has shown a scenario that could start a war at any time, this is more of an extreme pressure, and Venezuela is likely to escape the robbery, or survive the robbery at a lesser cost if it persists.
The U.S. military's current actions can only indicate that the Trump authorities have made no choice in order to seize Venezuelan oil, which also demonstrates from the side the issue of domestic fiscal receipts, which may be more serious than foreigners understand.