by John Perry and Roger D. Harris

It’s increasingly obvious that the US military threats against Venezuela have a wider agenda. Their game plan is regime change, but not only in Venezuela. This is the objective – on a longer timescale in some cases – across several of the countries in the Caribbean Basin, aiming to cleanse the region of governments deemed undesirable to Washington.

As international relations professor at the University of Chicago, John Mearsheimer reminds us, the US “does not tolerate left-leaning governments… and as soon as they see a government that is considered to be left-of-center they move to replace that government.”

For Democrats and Republicans alike, the US imperial projection on the region is a given. Trump and his comrade-in-arms Rubio are leading the charge. But the so-called US opposition party is offering weak constraints.

To these ends, the US empire, with Trump at its titular head, is weighing the opportunity costs of deploying the full force of the military might assembled in the Caribbean, one-fifth of its navy’s global firepower. But Trump’s neocon advisers appear to want to seize the moment and embark on hemispheric political change, bringing a Trumpian “Donroe Doctrine” to fulfillment.

Will caution prevail, or will the US continue to bring lawlessness and chaos – as it has to Haiti, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere – not just to Venezuela but possibly to other countries in the region?

(TRUMP DOES NOT SEEM TO REALIZE THAT WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO PRINT MONEY TO SUBSIDIZE WASTEFUL SPENDING, OURIGHT THEFT, CORRPTION, MILITARISM AND ISRAELI'S NEED TO COMMIT GENOCIDE. THE DOLLAR IS VERY NEAR COLLAPSE WHERE WAGES AND BENEFITS WILL BE CUT 60% OVERNIGHT. IMAGINE WALKING DOWN A STREET FULL OF PEOPLE WHERE THE AVERAGE WAGE IS CUT 60%. THAT MAN WHO HAD BEEN MAKING $15 AN HOUR AFTER TAXES IN NOW JUST MAKING $6 AN HOUR. HOW SAFE WOULD YOU FEEL. NOBODY HAS ENOUGH BULLETS AND CANS OF BEANS TO SURVIVE THAT SCENARIO.)

(I KNOW HOW TO CUT $3 TRILLION A YEAR FROM THE BUDGET. NOBODY IN DC CAN DO THAT UNTIL THEY LISTEN TO REASON AND RESTORE DEMOCRACY.)

https://original.antiwar.com/John_Perry/2025/11/27/its-not-only-about-venezuela-trump-intends-a-wider-domino-effect/

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