In August of 2017, President Trump surprised many by openly talking about the idea of launching a military attack on Venezuela. The public talk of this didn’t last long, and it has been all but forgotten. But not forgotten by President Trump.
Aides say that since August President Trump has repeatedly pushed aides on the matter, and that a number of different cabinet members have had to take turns trying to talk Trump out of the idea. They have succeeded so far, but Trump hasn’t dropped the idea.
Of course, there is no Congressional authorization, or anything resembling it, on the books authorizing a US invasion of Venezuela. This did not appear to faze Trump, however, and he argued to his cabinet that Venezuela was a threat to regional security, so he should just invade and be done with it.
This shocked members of his cabinet, including former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. They were both opposed to the idea, but it’s less clear if their successors, Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, would have a problem with this sort of unprovoked US attack.
Trump pushing a war even warmongers don’t want, is somehow not surprising.
That there is a war warmongers don’t want, is surprising.
Right, surprising indeed. But then again, israel has no interest in destroying Venezuela. Otherwise the US would have invaded long time ago.
It’s the oil. Most have already forgotten the coup effort during Chavez.
A coup that got no support from the US. A shame, all the suffering that could have been avoided.
The NED openly dropped millions into that coup. The people of Venezuela stopped it in a popular uprising and have been punished ever since with no-stop economic warfare funded by guess who? The National Endowment for Democracy.
Israel never got along with Chavez, who was critical of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006 and condemned the 2009 Gaza war.
Its only in 2017 that Maduro expressed a desire to restore more traditional Venezuelan relations with Israel, and, Israel is as versed in economic warfare as the U.S..
Sure why not? What could go wrong?
Invading countries with oil always seems to get people excited, but
invading Venezuela would produce refugees for the USA, not just
into Europe. That would not easily be stomached by “America”.
Is there an Venezuelan Adelson somewhere pushing for this? So then I doubt
it will happen. We will just “meddle”
Why not? If one has to deal with regime chsmege crazies imbedded into the bureaucracy— the best way to do it is to be crazier then them. And force them to come out into the open and support him — loud and clear. Since they were not about to do that — he could shut them up by deminstratingvthat they have no backbone. It worked on North Korea.
Is that what he’s doing regarding Iran too? Nice spin job.
The “regime change crazies in the bureaucracy” are people he himself put there. What you say is nuts. Nothing trump has done “worked in Korea”, the peace plan is being made by the Koreans, trump is a tourist.
If Trump is mulling invasion of Venezuela he may have intel on who poisoned Chavez. The Mossad being the most logical. Obviously a second poisoning would be too obvious therefore the choice of an invasion. An alarming number of leaders expressing anti Israel rhetoric have been poisoned.
Mossad is not too interested in Venezuela, they are mostly “concerned” about Iran.
Yes I agree but they react against any country expressing horror at Israel’s antics. Netanyahu even threatened war against New Zealand for organizing the anti settlement vote at the UN
Frankly, it still surprises me how in this day and age some clown get himself elected, declare himself dictator via fake elections, kill his own people, provoke abject misery and emigration and the “world leaders” sit there doing nothing as usual watching this catastrophe unfold.
I think I see where Trump is coming from. A quick regime change, stabilizing, and humanitarian operation, the kind that has been advertised many times before but never actually done, should be planned. Not a military invasion of course. Simply remove the political class, send toilet paper, food and everything else they need over there, get all the refugees back, organize elections and be done with it.
Invade Venez…*deep breath*
Really?!?!?
You know…the last time I heard the statistic was over a decade ago, during the attempts to overthrow Chavez, that stated One in Four Venezuelans Carry A Handgun. One in Four.
Carries a handgun.
Yeah dude, go ahead and invade. That’s a great f@#kin idea.
Hard to argue Venezuela is a haven for al Qaeda, but I guess they’ve used sillier excuses for invasion.
What Bolton and Pompous will likely recommend is for Thrump to start another Contra war. It’s like they are copying from the Reagan playbook.
Can anyone please explain to me why a peaceful, non-communist Latin America isn’t in our country’s best interests?
Loaded question fallacy; morally its for the indigs to decide for themselves the form of government they want without interference.
With the Soviet Union long gone and communism a dead ideology, a communist LA government is irrelevant to American security interests. Peace, low corruption and willingness to trade would matter more than government label.
They aren’t deciding for themselves, the Chavistas are rigging the elections.
By whose standards? Certainly not U.S. elections. In any case Venezuela’s elections are closely monitored by international observers and have passed each time.
Venezuela probably has one of the most cheat-resistant electoral systems in the world.
Anyone could backcheck your statement and find a division between MSM and independent sources, with the MSM promoting the rigged narrative and the alternative media promoting the fair election narrative and poking holes in the rigged narrative.
A real problem was low voter participation, encouraged by an Opposition boycott. Nonetheless, 46% of Venezuelans voted; Chavez received 28% support, and there is no quorum requirement that would invalidate the results so a boycott never made sense.