As an armada of US naval and military forces deploys toward Venezuelan waters on enhanced “counternarcotic” operations ordered by President Trump, the Venezuelan Navy has already suffered its first casualty. On March 30 the ANBV Naiguatá (GC-23), a Venezuelan patrol vessel, armed with a 76mm main gun, as well as a pair of 20mm cannons and two .50 caliber machine guns, sank after attacking the unarmed Resolute, a Portuguese-flagged cruise ship en route to Curaçao, a Dutch island in the Caribbean.
GFDL via Wikimedia CommonsAccording to The Economist, the Resolute “had been drifting for a day in international waters near La Tortuga, a Venezuelan island, as it tinkered with its starboard engine.” At midnight it was approached by the Naiguatá and ordered to come into port. The ship, believing it would be illegally seized by Venezuela, refused. Shortly thereafter the Naiguatá opened fire and rammed the cruise ship.
The Economist continues:
Unfortunately for the Naiguatá, the Resolute’s placid appearance belies the fact that its strengthened hull, built for polar cruising, can smash through metre-thick ice—and, it turns out, puny patrol boats. The Resolute brushed off the collision with “minor damages”, whereas the Naiguatá rapidly took on water and sank, leaving 44 sheepish sailors to be rescued.
Venezuela disputes this account. Its armed forces accused the Resolute of “cowardly and criminal behaviour” by initiating the collision in Venezuela’s national waters. The Bolivarian navy insisted that its gallant sailors put in an “impeccable performance” against the unarmed cruise ship, presumably by sinking with particular panache.
The navy darkly added that the Resolute, which boasts a jacuzzi and sauna, might have been carrying mercenary commandos to attack Venezuelan bases. As evidence, it pointed to nefarious inflatable boats on its deck.
The Venezuelan Navy later released a heavily edited video, posted by The Drive, that shows a Venezuelan seaman firing an AK-47 at the ship and then the two ships impacting, with the patrol boat quickly taking on water.
Video released by the Venezuelan Navy shows them shooting at the RCGS Resolute cruise ship then it shows the Resolute impacting the side of the GC-23 Naiguata and it shows severe damage to the Naiguata #Venezuela pic.twitter.com/ciI15v6SDt
— CNW (@ConflictsW) April 4, 2020
This tragic-comic incident should demonstrate the decrepit state of Venezuela’s naval and military capabilities after two decades of corrupt, incompetent leadership by the Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro “Bolivarian” socialist regime. If this warship sinking is any indication, Maduro should be very concerned about US forces headed his way.
Advertisement
Personally Thank Trump for His COVID-19 Response! [ACT NOW]
Typical communist lying response: try to make themselves look heroic even when the facts are obviously to the contrary. They don’t seem to even care that they come off as the liars they are – they just boldy deny deny deny, as if to say “ok, so we lie. So what? Besides, we are the ones to decide whether it’s a lie or not, and we say not”, which is basically the same philosophy they ‘govern’ with.
This is exactly what the liberals / democrats do all the time. Aided by the Fake Media, they continue to lie even when it becomes clear what the truth actually is. Think Pelosi, Shumer, and Biden.
You beat me to it…communists are the same the world over.
They always can count on their “media” running interference for them.
Shades of Bill Clinton. “Deny, deny, deny”
Now that was cute – Maduro is so desperate that he doesn’t even investigate what he considers his enemy – he may’ve done an edited account of the scuffle but the truth remains that Venezuela sank and the world won’t let Maduro forget it.
Dive make your depth 150 feet, ahead 1/3, 2 degree down bubble, chief of the watch Flood all Ballast tanks.
That’s funny!!
I can’t believe they would open fire on an unarmed and stranded ship full of passengers and no body is saying a word I hope it doesn’t go without someone holding them accountable and I don’t know if any report said anyone was shot and killed
THIS OBVIOUSLY POINTS OUT WHAT CRAZY BURNIE THINKS OUR NATION IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF “SOCIALISM/MARXISM”, AND HIS WACKO FOLLOWERS THE MuSLIME TWINS ILAHA AND WHAT EVER THE NAMS OF THE THE OTHER PIECE OF SHIT IS. THE USA IS BECOMEING THE JOKE OF THE WORLD ALLOWING THISE MuSLIME VERMIN TO EVEN BREATH OUR FREE AIR.
Thomas Agree with you100% And now see http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
this is like threatening a semi with a Mini Cooper, just Aint very smart
Bolivia and Venezuela are not the same country.
True, not the same, but isn’t some of the Bolivian military in Venezuela supporting Maduro?
.
From Webster’s:
Definition of Bolivarian: of or relating to the South American republics of Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
From w’pedia:
Bolivarianism is a mix of pan-American, socialist and national-patriotic ideals fixed against injustices of imperialism, inequality and corruption named after Simón Bolívar, the 19th-century Venezuelan general and liberator from the Spanish monarchy then in abeyance, who led the struggle for independence throughout much of South America.
Just sharing info’ – I had the same thought (I had to look it up). ✌??
Could we have Benneeswayla flesh out its claim that a cruise ship, dead in the water, “cowardly and criminally initiated a collision” with a fully-operational warship designed for patrolling? Ensign Gomez to El Capitan: “Skeeper, les be like El Toro and charge dat beeg madre gordo!” Arriba, muchchos, ole-ole-OLE!
Ole, ole — UH-OH!
Well if the educators go on unsupervised Venezuela will be here Bernie Sanders supporters should enlighten you.
Cheech and Chong could make a movie out of this one.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
You guys hate the communists, yet you support Putin’s puppet. Explain.
Putin gets near half of Ukraine, including all of Crimea under Obama and Hillary and Obama, is overheard off mic telling Putin to wait till after election, and not a thing is done about it. Who is the puppet? Putin has not faired well under Trump, but the US has despite all the Dem congress, leftist media, and Deep State globalists, can throw at Trump. The facts are upsetting your TDS narrative!
You are wasting your time with logic. Old Fighter Pilot proverb: Never try to teach a pig to sing. It is a waste of time and it only annoys the pig!
There is gravity and anti-gravity. There is reality and there are leftists. 🙁
There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots.
We don’t support Putin’s puppet – he’s been out of the White House for over 3 years now.
Exactly which administration allowed a 20% ownership of Uranium One to be bought by Russia? . . . tick tock, tick tock.
Just remember, Trump’s policies regarding petroleum has driven Russia and the Middle East to their proverbial knees financially. Petroleum is Russia’s only major export and the barrel prices are killing both regions. But global economics is probably to difficult for you to comprehend.
A nice take on the Sanders campaign . . .
This is the type of government that our young socialists want for America. they always have the same reasoning. Socialisum hadn’t worked because we were not in charge.if we looked back in history we could find the same message that came from the ones who would be in charge. power corrupts.absolute power corrupts absolutely. Now the peopleof venezuela will need to fight for their freedoms. our media is strangely silent about their problems Why? We have one man that isn’t shy about wanting socilisu for America. the rest wont say it but will practice it oncethey are in power. ——–Grampa
I can think of a couple of Congress people we could send down there to run a full scale investigation into the incident. Pelosi should head it up along with OAC as her Vice Chair. They will only require a ship load of the finest whiskey, another refrigerated container ship for the Ice Cream and a couple of billion for room, board and expenses. Should keep them busy until after the November election. They aren’t doing anything productive here, so a foreign excursion seems about right. American Airlines has a large number of aircraft available for their disposal.
March 30, 2020 Cruise Guide
6pm Lovely evening meal in main dining room.
7pm Music & After Dinner Drinks on the Lido deck.
8pm Watch the Captain ram and sink a stinking comie Naval Ship!
9pm Dance the night away.