What do you if you involved in a sex scandal and are running a collapsing economy, and you are a tyrant? You wag-the-dog, start a war abroad, or commit some war-like act. That’s what Trump is doing in the case of Venezuela with his threats to bomb that country.
In addition to bolstering Trump’s strongman bona fides, such aggressive rhetoric is also a perfect vehicle for the president to drive the news cycle and to distract the American people. It feels like a decades-old cliche to talk about wagging the dog, but certainly, an attack on Venezuela would wag the dog.
His main objective is distracting us from all things Jeffrey Epstein:
The White House’s big plan to change the subject — by endorsing the idea of jailing Trump’s predecessor on manufactured claims — is doing next to nothing right now to dig the president out of this Epstein-shaped hole that he and his loyalists dug for themselves. And there are already concerns among certain Trump advisers that this gambit is creating, in the words of one such adviser, just another “ticking time bomb” that could blow up in their faces in the months and years to come.
Wannabe dictator Trump doesn’t have to start a war with Venezuela if the corporate press continues to cover the aggression. That includes the criminal killing of people on boats in Venezuelan waters.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s also about oil. But that is something that benefits his corrupt business interests that seek access to Venezuela’s oil. That’s been a goal for decades. Trump is playing to that interest:
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