Matt Goetz, one of the recent faces of the Trumpist wing of the Republican Party, has become notorious for his anti-Chinese rhetoric and his glorification of the world’s military incursions. Author: Faithful return to original state
Ambition is a very poor guide, and Florida Republican Representative Matt Goetz, eager to stay in office with the support of anti-Cuban Miamians and, I believe, also live off this hate industry, is making claims in the car. crazy.
To tell the truth, I don’t think his proposal will work, because irrationality cannot be higher than American pragmatism.
However, it does not hurt to talk about it when the media of this nation, which wants to maintain hegemony at any cost, falsifies and reproduces accusations against China, including its apocryphal military presence in Cuba.
To put it in good Cuban language, Mr Goetz seems to be “standing behind the back of the Chinese”, or in his paranoid case one could say that he has the Asian giant’s 1.412 million Chinese citizens and even millions of Chinese living in overseas.
But a legislator affiliated with rotten neo-conservatism and one of Trump’s “militants” is not just some congressman, he sits on the US House Armed Services Committee and in this state argued that the AUMF amendment should be introduced into the NDAA. .
I don’t write in code, I’ll explain now.
The AUMF stands for Authorization to Use Military Force and originated in the response that the United States gave to the fall of the Twin Towers in New York in 2001. carte blanche without debate on the unlimited presidential powers of Barbara Lee.
Since then, according to Business Insider, AUMF, a law that allows the president to unilaterally launch military operations around the world without congressional oversight or transparency has been used to allow US military deployments to Afghanistan, the Philippines, Georgia, Yemen. , Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iraq and Somalia.
This publication claims that between 2018 and 2020 alone, U.S. forces operated in 85 countries under the banner of “anti-terrorist activities.” As of 2021, the AUMF has been used in military campaigns in at least 22 countries.
The NDAA is the National Defense Appropriations Act of 2024, which added to the Pentagon’s budget for nuclear weapons that they “hide” in the Department of Energy, and some emergency spending pushes up to $886 billion in spending on their wars, which is no small amount.
The intention of Florida politicians to use AUMF to “liquidate Chinese assets in Cuba” is very serious. Gaetz or querencia’s claim went further by adding AUMF as an amendment to the 2024 NDAA Amendment Act, but apparently had to withdraw it for procedural reasons.
“For my hawkish friends on the committee, who think I’m too dumb, this amendment is a permission for the use of military force given to the president.
Biden to withdraw Chinese assets from Cuba,” he said and debunked in arguments the recent and false publications of The Wall Street Journal with fictitious reports of his friends without identifying “intelligence”.
There are more characters in this story. Gaetz has company, including Miami-Dade spokesman Carlos Jimenez, and clues that mimicked the issue in statements to Fox News and on his Twitter account, because it’s likely his intention to return to occupied Cuba is to take back the pastures. . and his father’s rice fields in the Manzanillera area.
“The presence of a communist Chinese spy base in Cuba, the visit of Iranian officials to the island, and now Beijing’s construction of military camps in Cuba pose a direct threat to the national security of the United States,” the former firefighter and former Mayor of Miami wrote on his Twitter account.
After all, in the multibillion-dollar fiscal year 2024, America’s national defense became a top priority, including provisions to “counter China’s aggression” and even military pay increases, not to mention the huge piece of the pie that went to the military industry. successfully, but in their direct position there was no order to invade Cuba to evict the Chinese from Bejukal, where their spy base and military training camp are allegedly located.
Getz didn’t get away with it here, a failure similar to that of 2022 when he referred to nothing less than the Monroe Doctrine when he called Argentina a “threat” to the “security” of the United States while complaining about its agreements. with China when President Alberto Fernandez visited Moscow and Beijing early last year with a very clear, rational and legal explanation: “Argentina must stop being so heavily dependent on the IMF and the United States and must make its way to other places.”
In the case of Cuba, we have enough sovereignty and independence to have true friends elsewhere, and the only military base that tramples on our territory against our will illegally occupies Guantanamo Bay. Don’t cross the line.
Source: Juventud Rebelde