The US military theater commander suddenly "retired," will Venezuela be attacked or not?
Whether Trump is going to use force against Venezuela is now in a Schrödinger's state:
On one hand, the US military has been gathering in the Caribbean for days, and even the "Joint Task Force" used for specific missions has been established. On the 15th, Trump just said he had authorized the CIA to conduct activities in Venezuela and considered conducting ground strikes on Venezuela;
But on the other hand, the commander of the US Southern Command, Alvin Holsey (Figure 1), who is theoretically responsible for commanding the US military's military operations against Venezuela, was announced by the US Secretary of War Hagel to be "retired" on the 16th.
At this critical moment when the United States is about to decide whether to launch a military operation against Venezuela, the highest-ranking commander of the theater, Alvin Holsey, was suddenly "announced to retire," and the coincidence in timing has led American media to generally suspect that Holsey was disgruntled with Hagel and had to "retire."
After Hagel's farcical "soldier spirit" speech, several US commanders or generals have resigned because they could not accept Trump's interference in the military, and Alvin Holsey, the commander of the US Southern Command, was also one of them.
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