What does it mean to "wag the dog?"

[berg80]

C.I.A. Conducted Drone Strike on Port in Venezuela​

The C.I.A. conducted a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week, according to people briefed on the operation, a development that suggests an aggressive new phase of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against the Maduro government has begun.

The strike was on a dock where U.S. officials believe Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, was storing narcotics and potentially preparing to move the drugs onto boats, the people said.

No one was on the dock at the time, and no one was killed, they said. But the strike is the first known American operation inside Venezuela.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/us/politics/cia-drone-strike-venezuela.html

What is the end game here? Is there one? Or is trump trying desperate measures as inflation stays high, unemployment rises, and his polls numbers tank.

What does it mean to wag the dog?

AI Overview

"Wag the dog" has two main meanings: literally, a small part controlling a large one (like a tail wagging a dog), but politically, it means creating a diversion (often a fake war/crisis) to distract from a scandal, a concept popularized by the 1997 film Wag the Dog. The phrase signifies a minor element gaining disproportionate control or, in politics, a manufactured distraction from a more important, damaging issue.

 

[OODA_Loop]

He is doing it to take the attention off of his bruised hand.

 

[Lesh]

Take attention off Epstein

Off a weak economy

Off his mental failings

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Funny stuff!

 

[berg80]

He is doing it to take the attention off of his bruised hand.

Or his bruised ego for which there is no makeup to hide it.

 

[Stryder50]

C.I.A. Conducted Drone Strike on Port in Venezuela​

The C.I.A. conducted a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week, according to people briefed on the operation, a development that suggests an aggressive new phase of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against the Maduro government has begun.

The strike was on a dock where U.S. officials believe Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, was storing narcotics and potentially preparing to move the drugs onto boats, the people said.

No one was on the dock at the time, and no one was killed, they said. But the strike is the first known American operation inside Venezuela.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/us/politics/cia-drone-strike-venezuela.html

What is the end game here? Is there one? Or is trump trying desperate measures as inflation stays high, unemployment rises, and his polls numbers tank.

What does it mean to wag the dog?

AI Overview

"Wag the dog" has two main meanings: literally, a small part controlling a large one (like a tail wagging a dog), but politically, it means creating a diversion (often a fake war/crisis) to distract from a scandal, a concept popularized by the 1997 film Wag the Dog. The phrase signifies a minor element gaining disproportionate control or, in politics, a manufactured distraction from a more important, damaging issue.

Your link is a payto view, Komrade.
I'm not paying to read more of your insurrectionist pravda.

As for content of your post, we saw a lot of "wag the dog" in past two Democrat POTUS.

 

[OODA_Loop]

Or his bruised ego for which there is no makeup to hide it.

He is grabbing Maduro square by the ***** and making you smell his fingers.

 

[berg80]

Take attention off Epstein

Off a weak economy

Off his mental failings

Few things affect public opinion in favor of the CIC like armed conflict. Maybe someone in the regime is literate enough to have read 1984.

Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

George Orwell - 1984

 

[OODA_Loop]

Few things affect public opinion in favor of the CIC like armed conflict.

and preventing / delaying it with the Chinese on our door step

 

[Hollie]

C.I.A. Conducted Drone Strike on Port in Venezuela​

The C.I.A. conducted a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week, according to people briefed on the operation, a development that suggests an aggressive new phase of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against the Maduro government has begun.

The strike was on a dock where U.S. officials believe Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, was storing narcotics and potentially preparing to move the drugs onto boats, the people said.

No one was on the dock at the time, and no one was killed, they said. But the strike is the first known American operation inside Venezuela.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/us/politics/cia-drone-strike-venezuela.html

What is the end game here? Is there one? Or is trump trying desperate measures as inflation stays high, unemployment rises, and his polls numbers tank.

What does it mean to wag the dog?

AI Overview

"Wag the dog" has two main meanings: literally, a small part controlling a large one (like a tail wagging a dog), but politically, it means creating a diversion (often a fake war/crisis) to distract from a scandal, a concept popularized by the 1997 film Wag the Dog. The phrase signifies a minor element gaining disproportionate control or, in politics, a manufactured distraction from a more important, damaging issue.

AI Overview

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[berg80]

and preventing / delaying it with the Chinese on our door step

Attacking Venezuela dissuades China from its imperial desires?

 

[OODA_Loop]

Attacking Venezuela dissuades China from its imperial desires?

Hinders, delays, interrupts, slows down. Not dissuade.

 

[berg80]

Hinders, delays, interrupts, slows down. Not dissuade.

Attacking Venezuela "Hinders, delays, interrupts, slows down." ?

 

[OODA_Loop]

Attacking Venezuela "Hinders, delays, interrupts, slows down." ?

Yes. The two are inexorably intertwined

Chinese Oil Tankers Challenge US Blockade off Venezuela​

Chinese oil tankers challenge US blockade off Venezuela

The tankers approach despite the U.S. tightening maritime enforcement to choke off oil revenues to Caracas.

www.newsweek.com

Venezuela condemns US arms sale to Taiwan, echoing Beijing's position​

Venezuela condemns US arms sale to Taiwan, echoing Beijing's position

Venezuela criticised the United States on Monday over its decision to approve a large-scale arms sale to Taiwan, aligning itself with Beijing as tensions escalated around the island. In a statement issued by the foreign ministry, the Venezuelan government said the sale interfered in China's...

www.yahoo.com

 

[luiza]

Come clean Bugger .

Are you more of a Wag than a Dog?

Why not spell out the real message that Israel is using its US Ambassador , Mr Trumpfy , with their CIA to carry out a Deep State initiative .

 

[OODA_Loop]

Why not spell out the real message that Israel is using its US Ambassador , Mr Trumpfy , with their CIA to carry out a Deep State initiative .

Real Message = Don't wag the dog by his red crayon. He will bite you.

 

[berg80]

Yes. The two are inexorably intertwined

Only in your head.

 

[berg80]

Sen. Rand Paul says Caribbean boat strikes 'go against all of our tradition'​

Sen. Rand Paul says Caribbean boat strikes 'go against all of our tradition'​

The Kentucky Republican said on "Meet the Press" that if Trump wants to go to war with Venezuela, Congress needs to vote on a declaration of war.

www.nbcnews.com

Rand isn't right very often but he is this time.

 

[kyzr]

Sen. Rand Paul says Caribbean boat strikes 'go against all of our tradition'​

The Kentucky Republican said on "Meet the Press" that if Trump wants to go to war with Venezuela, Congress needs to vote on a declaration of war.

www.nbcnews.com

Rand isn't right very often but he is this time.

Nope. Rand is very wrong. Without putting troops in Venezuela the 60-day clock hasn't started yet.

 

[berg80]

Nope. Rand is very wrong.

He's right.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., condemned U.S. strikes on alleged drug cartel boats in the Caribbean, saying in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that the strikes “go against all of our tradition.”

Paul argued that when the U.S. kills someone, “you really need to know someone’s name, at least, you have to accuse them of something.”

“You have to present evidence,” Paul said. “So all these people have been blown up without us knowing their name, without any evidence of a crime.”

The boat strikes started far longer than 60 days ago.