Venezuela: the toddler’s next war
You know how toddlers behave when they don't get what they want. They'll nag and whine until you give up being an adult, trying to teach the offspring that no one on this beloved Earth can have everything they want.
We all know who our Toddler is, though. The matter here is that he's 78 years old, and he's the president of the declining Empire of the star-spangled. What does he want? He says that he's at war with the drug cartels, and for that he and his comrades in the War Department have attacked over 20 boats supposedly loaded with cocaine. No one knows if that is true, no one.
The Latin American region condemned those unnecessary attacks. Some of the leaders said that in those boats there were Colombian fishermen, and perhaps there were other Caribbean nationalities among the casualties. However, our old Toddler doesn't really care about those outcomes, he's just sending almost the entire navy to Venezuelan offshore waters, and closing the airspace of the country to fulfill his whims. Now, we all know that when the baby emperor cries, everything else will be wiped out.
On the other hand, we have our responsible adult who, if we can stretch the idea of responsible, teases our Toddler at every whining. The Venezuelan ruler (a Bananas Emperor) dances to provoke our child's caprice. One could ask, why? Does he realize what's happening with the Toddler? Probably he’s hiding the real gem that our Toddler desires: a land with over 300 billion oil barrels (more than what the journalist-lover Prince of the Saudis can offer).
Some of us have played the geopolitical, geostrategy game Risk, where one of the missions is to conquer the world, just like our Toddler's dream in which he cries out loud at every obstacle he must face. However, his will is very dangerous. He might tear down the entire house to get what he wants. The table is set, and pieces are in position, what’s going to be the next move for our toddler and the banana Emperor?
