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Judi Lynn

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3. So George W. Bush & Donald Rumsfeld decided they needed to put a "lily pad" base in Curacao

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 05:41 PM

Mar 2019

the year after Chavez was inaugurated in Feb. 1999.

It's hard not to notice the timing.

Thank you for thinking of sharing this material on this move from the Southern Command.

It was also during George W. Bush's administration they also decided he needed to bring out the 4th fleet from mothballs after a long retirement:

The US Fourth Fleet: Focus on Latin America

. . .

he Fourth Fleet was reactivated in 2008, during the presidency of George W. Bush, as a way of monitoring possible threats coming from the anti-US sentiment fueled by the then president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez.

https://www.unav.edu/web/global-affairs/detalle/-/blogs/the-us-fourth-fleet-focus-on-latin-america

Learning about Curacao absolutely sheds a lot of light.

Thank you.

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Netherlands, U.S. agree on use of Curacao as possible aid hub for Venezuela [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2019 OP

"Aid hub" as in the way Reagan used Honduras as an "aid hub" for Nicaragua sandensea Mar 2019 #1

Denying himself power over the people of Venezuela is beyond Trump. Judi Lynn Mar 2019 #4

+1 sandensea Mar 2019 #5

+1 sandensea! n/t Devil Child Mar 2019 #6

Thanks! sandensea Mar 2019 #7

The US military SoCom established a FOL base on Curacao in 2000 PufPuf23 Mar 2019 #2

So George W. Bush & Donald Rumsfeld decided they needed to put a "lily pad" base in Curacao Judi Lynn Mar 2019 #3

Bolton & Abram's fake aid hub Devil Child Mar 2019 #8

I'm so tired of being lied to. nt littlemissmartypants Mar 2019 #9