If you say so shipmate.
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If you say so shipmate.
I have no idea what they are doing.
Just saying some sort of Op is in progress which everybody in South Trinidad can just look over and see. There are jets in the sky. Our borders are closed and therefore those are not commercial flights.
And if you smell someone’s fart you have just inhaled stuff that has potentially been expelled from...
I have no idea what they are doing.
Weird things are happening over there though. Just days ago Rosneft (the Russian oil giant heavily intertwined with Putin) moved all its holdings of Venezuelan oil reserves to Roszarubezhneft. The whole point of Rosneft's holdings was to provide some support for Maduro against US sanctions without directly involving Putin. The current US proposal to ease sanctions if Maduro takes a hike (which he should, he is so thoroughly incompetent it is more befitting a cartoon than reality) also has internal powers reconsidering their position.
Just my limited perspective, but I suspect Rosneft is moving out to defend against any internal strife, and this is also why there is an increase in US naval activity. Things are deteriorating fast in Venezuela and Maduro is not the type to step aside gracefully. On the one hand US naval presence serves as a deterrent to any misguided notions Maduro may have, and on the other hand it provides some possibility to intervene if things really go down the crapper. And with COVID19 poised to completely ravage through Venezuela with a government seemingly unable to do much about it prospects are bleak...
Doubly so for Maduro: oil prices tanked, a deadly pandemic is poised to wreak havoc among the population, his sole superpower ally is leaving him to dry and his internal opponents have been given an alternative by the US. And all of this after he completely annihilated his economy and brought one of the in theory wealthiest countries on the globe to complete ruin. The big question is how he'll accept defeat: gracefully or not-so-gracefully. Call me a hawk, but if a power-hungry despot would seriously attempt to instigate a civil war in a bankrupted country ravaged by a global pandemic UN intervention should absolutely be considered. Regardless of the optics of 'coming for the oil'.
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I have no idea what they are doing.
It'll be for Caribe Wave, the yearly disaster relief exercise.
So the massive rioting and urban destruction I've been watching in the news for the past 6 months was all fictional?
So the massive rioting and urban destruction I've been watching in the news for the past 6 months was all fictional?
Crime passionnel.
As a Portuguese, I understand you very well.
Is that the name for the swarm of Covid case refugees that are about to land on my shores?
(It's catchy)
Thats pretty weak and telling, having to pivot to victim politics when someone blows a hole in your vague conspiracy theory.
So it looks like other people have identified the autoclave wrapping paper as mask material
medium.com
If you have access to a sterilizer, this stuff is probably going to last a few uses pretty well. It could be made into filter material too.
A simple method for making surgical masks from operating room sterilization wrap
More information below, but in the interest of usability, materials and methods are listed first.
If you have access to a sterilizer, this stuff is probably going to last a few uses pretty well. It could be made into filter material too.
Oh please.
Wasn't the actual fleet excercise two weeks ago though, around March 19th? Can't find much for April that hasn't been cancelled, but obviously relying solely on publicly available info.
There really should be a club for former superpowers, where we get together to complain about how the new superpowers listen to crappy music and wear silly clothes.
There really should be a club for former superpowers, where we get together to complain about how the new superpowers listen to crappy music and wear silly clothes.
... and they have no manners, they're doomed superpowers! I'd sign up for that club.
At least you still got to appear in Sid Meier's Pirates! But being fair, Portugal was never in the caribbean, we were too busy with the southern hemisphere.
Love that game.
I'd hate to rub salt in the wound, but even worse was the exclusion of Portugal in Civ6. I don't think you have been excluded since the mid 90s or something.
Oh well, that is what mods are for!I wont lie, I havent looked, but its the right time of year for it. General rule of thumb is the military elements tend to play a little longer after the exercise ends in a year after a actual disaster as they tend to do a "lessons learnt' type trainex.
Could also be part of the ramp up of counter-narcotics, or the other other things I mentioned in my original debunking of tinfoil hattery.
Ha, thanks for the info. My experience with and knowledge of Caribe Wave is limited to what Google told me the last 30 minutes.
I do think Venezuela is a in very 'interesting' position and that a lot of the recent developments have been under-reported in the media due to COVID19. All tinfoil-hattery aside: if I were POTUS and I had a country this unstable, this close to me and dealing this poorly with the pandemic I'd want to keep a very close eye on it. Honestly, the last thing the US needs is a massive stream of possibly infected refugees making a beeline for them...
This is a pretty sound analysis in my view. Well done.
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