Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt told Newsmax on Monday that the United States’ sharp increase in military activity in the Caribbean might look like preparation for an invasion of Venezuela but is instead a calculated move to pressure drug cartels and the regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro into negotiations.
Holt told “Finnerty” the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group, multiple destroyers, and a Marine expeditionary unit operating near Venezuela is designed to maximize leverage rather than launch a conflict.
“It looks like it, doesn’t it?” Holt said when asked whether the U.S. appears to be preparing for an invasion. “But what we’ve done is we’ve cocked a gun, and we’re waving it around the room dangerously.”
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