“5,000 Troops To Colombia” To Quell Venezuela Crisis? John Bolton Flashes Notepad Contents At Briefing

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

During a Monday White House press briefing national security adviser John Bolton was photographed carrying a notepad — presumably as he was fresh out of a national security meeting — and one of the things which appears to be handwritten on the pad is “5,000 troops to Colombia”.

The contents of the notepad were spotted almost immediately by multiple journalists online after an NBC news release featuring the AP photo was published. More precisely the full contents appear to read:  

“Afghanistan -> Welcome the Talks. 5,000 troops to Colombia.”

Here’s the image of Bolton with his notepad from NBC News:

And a closer look, per one of the first journalists to examine the photograph and writing, who noted that “if confirmed this would be a pretty terrible OPSEC [operations security] breach”:

Bolton during the White House presser revealed that President Trump is “leaving open the possibility of a U.S. military intervention to protect opposition leader Juan Guaidó, members of the nation’s assembly and American diplomatic personnel,” according to NBC.

“The president has made it clear that all options are on the table,” Bolton told reporters while holding the yellow notepad. “We also today call on the Venezuelan military and security forces to accept the peaceful, democratic and constitutional transfer of power,” Bolton said.

But could, as the notepad suggests, this involve plans to send 5,000 American troops to neighboring Colombia, a close US ally in Latin America?

No doubt the administration is already spitballing military contingency operations especially after the latest spat over Maduro’s ultimatum for all US diplomatic personnel to leave the country “within 72 hours” — which he has since walked back after the Trump administration threatened severe consequences.

There remains the possibility, however, that having clearly written words on a mostly blank pad indicating that disengagement from Afghanistan equals ramping up engagement and intervention in South America is actually intentional signalling to both enemies and allies alike.

When asked following the briefing by eagle-eyed reporters who caught a glimpse of the notepad’s contents about the “5,000 troops to Colombia” memo, the White House spokesperson responded, “As the President has said, all options are on the table.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-28/5000-troops-colombia-quell-venezuela-crisis-john-bolton-flashes-notepad-contents

2 thoughts on ““5,000 Troops To Colombia” To Quell Venezuela Crisis? John Bolton Flashes Notepad Contents At Briefing”

  1. and yet they think they can “deal” with 8 million of us ?

    and how many years have they been falling on their faces in Afghanistan?

    check yer list bitches , ’cause we got lists too
    light this crap off and 8 million will be a small number of who you’ll have to worry about

    can you spell Revolution ?

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  2. They don’t care whether it’s intentional or not. They know no one will ever do anything, so they are just coming out and saying it.

    As we have said before, we can bitch all day and they know it. Until we do something about it, they will go on and do it anyways. They don’t care.

    So I guess this helps bring up another war in their World War III agenda and why they are wrapping up in Afghanistan for the time being to bomb someone else. Good luck with that.

    When are those freakin’ idiots ever going to learn?

    Not until we put a stop to it, which of course, is likely never because no one wants to do anything. It’s more like waking up every day and saying, “Ok, so who are we at war with today?” rather than “What have we done to make the world a better place today?”

    So sad.

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