By Walt Zlotow
Senators voted down a bi-partisan War Powers Resolution to stop President Trump from launching his likely military intervention to topple the Venezuelan government of Nicholas Maduro.
The bill, proposed in support of the 1973 War Powers Act, was narrowly defeated 51-49. All 47 Democrats voted to pass the bill while 51 of 53 Republicans voted to greenlight the unconstitutional, immoral and criminal war Trump is expected to launch within days. Only Republicans Lisa Murkowski and bill co-sponsor Rand Paul voted to uphold the Constitutional provision that only Congress has the power to declare war.
Why is Trump likely to initiate all out war? It has essentially already begun. He has sent a robust military force of ships, including an aircraft carrier, 6,000 troops, and warplanes to the region to complete America’s 26 year long goal of toppling the socialist government of Venezuela.
Trump calls Maduro a ‘narco terrorist’, placed a $50 million reward for his capture, and committed mass murder by obliterating at least 15 small, unarmed boats in the Caribbean off Venezuela’s coast, killing dozens. Trump hopes Maduro will collapse from the intimidation to avoid launching outright invasion.
Trump’s frenzied lust to topple Maduro has nothing to do with narco terrorism or any remote connection to US national security interests. It has to do with gaining control of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves and destroying a regime allied with America’s two imagined enemies Russia and China.
This is madness… but in a war-crazed nation that still believes it can dominate the world, it’s simply business as usual. With a president bent on criminal war and a cowardly Congress refusing to uphold the Constitution, America continues down the road to self-destruction.
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Morality is clearly in short supply in the US congress, but Australians shouldn’t feel smug. As Michael Pascoe said, Albanese’s kissing of Trump’s ring (double entendre intended) puts Australia as being guilty of supporting this criminal gang and all that they do.