Cedric Leighton: Caracas Attacks Could Be ‘Precursor to Something More Extensive, More Intense’

RUSH EXCERPT:

LEIGHTON: “If there‘s any difficulty that they have in terms of command and control, in terms of activating any response to the attacks, that would indicate that the attacks were designed to, not only cut off that command and control, but also to damage those forces, and prevent them from responding to any us U.S. efforts. So in terms of the sequence of events, I don‘t think this is a one and done type operation. In other words, I believe this might be the precursor, to something more extensive, more intense. At least that‘s the potential right now. But if the Venezuelan government were to respond to this and say this is something that we you know, we, in essence, don‘t want this to continue. We‘re willing to you know, start talks with the U.S. Or you know, make some accommodation with the U.S. that could involve maduro leaving the country or, or something like that. Then the operation, would basically cease, at least from this level of intensity. And that‘s, that‘s really the kind of thing that, you know, that we‘re looking at here is they can they could potentially turn this off if they wanted to.”