Global perspective reframes Trump attack as irregular warfare operation

“AMERICAN system” nationalists at Promethean Action have defended Trump’s latest Venezuealan operation as “an opening salvo against the British Empire”.

The Promethean group, former followers of the late economist and political philosopher Lyndon LaRouche, maintain that the British aristocracy, intelligence and banking establishment are the drivers of what many people simply call globalism. American and European oligarchs also play a role in this centre of power.

Promethean Action’s Susan Kokinda says Venezuela has been a conduit in the international drug and terrorism operations linked to the British Empire, whose historic roots go back to the global opium trade and the 19th century Opium Wars against China.

That and more recent history surrounding international drug trade were documented in the book Dope Inc: Britain’s Opium War Against the World, by the editors of Executive Intelligence Review.

Dope Inc’s introduction states: “The Opium Wars of 1840-1860 were dark chapters in the history of colonialism, when Britain made war on the Chinese to force them to import thousands of tons of opium, which crippled and impoverished their nation. It’s much less well-known that the Opium Wars never really ended. The United States, like China, was too great for the London money lords to occupy directly.

“One way America is being brought to heel is by the drug trade. Crime and other social problems in the U.S. and Mexico are massively influenced by drugs and drug dealing. Illicit drugs may now account for as much as $1 trillion annually in financing for criminal activity and corruption.”

President Trump is featured in the video saying some 300,000 Americans have been lost to drugs which mostly come in through the southern border – and significantly, Canada.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told NBC that the US was in a war against drug trafficking, not Venezuela. He said the country’s oil reserves, the largest in the world, were under the control of “a handful of oligarchs around the world including inside of Venezuela”. The industry was not benefiting the Venezuelan people.

Oil of course, plays a big role in this picture, and the US seizure of several oil tankers from Venezuela (one flying a Russian flag) has provoked outrage and accusations that oil and the maintenance of the petrodollar is the primary reason for the raid.

The first tanker seized, the Panama flagged M Sophia, was one of a fleet that departed Venezuela early this month in “dark mode” with its transponders turned off, bound for China. The US says it has previously sanctioned these oil exports and therefore is justified in seizing them.