by Vincenzo Petrone
ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The T.A.C.O doctrine, that is, that Trump Always Chickens Out (Trump always marches back), elaborated by the Financial Times, at first sight today seems dismissed from the operation against the illegitimate President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, a dictator also for some sadly caricatured aspects, which certainly has personally enriched with the narcotraffic. On the other hand, the T.A.C.O had already been denied in Iran, on 22 June, with the bombing by the US B2s, of 3 uranium enrichment sites. The question that arises today is whether there was need, to stop Maduro, to deploy for weeks off Venezuela Gerald Ford, the largest aircraft carrier in the world accompanied by 7 warships, with a total of men employed near 20,000 units, if you include the crews of the ships employed. It would be spontaneous to think that the Israelis for example would have done such a practice with a handful of Special Forces and a pair of helicopters. But the American Delta Force could have done the same or even better. If he did it with Osama Bin Laden, he could do it again in Caracas.
But then why did Trump act in Venezuela with so much audience, exhibited, strawberries of weapons and kineprese? First of all, because Maduro was a soft goal, certainly insignificant for America’s security posture, but with very little risk of response it allowed Trump to launch three powerful messages. The first is for the great American audience where Trump wants to corrupt the image of absolute resoluteness that he obsessively sought every day to sew on. Perhaps he fails to maintain the electoral promises regarding the cost of life for the American average citizen but at least confirms his commitment to restoring respect and sacred fear for the military force of America at least among drug dealers and their political protectors. With Xi Jin Ping and Vladimir Putin is all a little more complicated. That Venezuela sends drugs especially in Europe and not in the United States, in Trump’s communication scenario is a secondary detail. The two other messages that the President transmits to the world today are exquisitely foreign policy. The first is that in the Americas no one has to play against the United States and the second is that the illicit triangulations of which Venezuela was involved to recycle capital and oil between Iran, China and Russia will no longer be tolerated in the subcontinent.
In both messages, it is not difficult to see traces of Monroe Doctrine, namely that the Americas are the U.S. home courtyard. And the rest of the world must take note of it. And this for us Europeans, for Taiwan, for Japan, South Korea and Australia, that is for the main strategic allies of the USA, is not at all good news because implicitly Trump is telling China and Russia that is specularly and mutually willing to recognize, at least in principle, their respective areas of influence in East Asia and in Europe. Unfortunately, this message of the President is not a novelty, as it permeated the National Security Strategy published in December last year by the White House. Those who declined or expected a confirmation of the seriousness of those strategic statements received it in Caracas today. Trump must be taken seriously even if not always in the letter. The diplomats of the half world today will be asked for intrigues as legal acrobatics will have to do the State Department to justify this intervention on the level of its legitimacy of international law. Wasted fatigue, after the sinking into international waters of dozens of boats that allegedly transported drugs with 115 alleged dead traffickers.
The US Attorney General, Pam Bondi, said a few hours ago that Maduro will be tried in the United States. But he did not explain why we could not do the same with the other traffickers who instead were obliterated in international waters on the boats that drove. All this certainly does not mean that, without Nicolas Maduro in power, Venezuela today is not a better country. Most likely it is. However to us who assist this exercise of muscularity remains a doubt: will the medium and long-term implications for the international security of Americans and allies, or rather “almost ex” allies, be positive in Europe and Asia? They may not be at all.
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