During a radio interview on Friday, John Bolton said that no US military intervention against Venezuela is imminent, nor any military action by Brazil, or Colombia, or any combination of the three nations.
A major source of speculation about imminent US action was a note by Bolton earlier this week suggesting 5,000 US troops might be sent to Colombia, seemingly just to get them on the border with Venezuela.
Even in denying the imminent action, Bolton reiterated the
administration’s position that “all options are on the table” against
Venezuela, including military action. It’s just that the US is
immediately focused on trying for peaceful regime change.
But the administration seems deeply committed to imposing regime change
in Venezuela one way or another, and many are eager to insist that
military invasion is definitely “on the table.”
If Trump wants to be a one term president like Reagan, he should attempt a coup in Venezuela like Reagan did in Nicaragua… It would be a smooth move like Exlax with the same outcum…..
Reagan served two full consecutive terms (1981-1985 / 1985 -1989.) George HW Bush, Reagan’s VP, is the last single-term president (1989-1993) since Carter (1977-1981.)
Three branch representative democracy is a facet of capitalism designed to mostly represent capital.
Hugo Chavez attempted to modernize to six branches and a secure voting system that cannot be altered by capitalists installing their manager politicos. Time and thought have shown seven branches is another ideal, with the seventh held safely outside formal bureaucratic systems. This is of course merely an expansion on Hugo’s brilliance with the last branch as autonomous democracy.
President Maduro was voted in with over 46% even in the face of united states and european neocolonial efforts at regime change. That 46% represents the core strength of autonomous democracy in Venezuela und extreme capitalist stress. The Venezuelan army can rely on the people for help if US warmongers convince themselves to pay mercenaries to attack the peace.
These “opposition” parties are very unpopular there but you won’t see that getting reported, much like any background on the CIA/corporate fascist puppet they’re trying to install.
Birthing the “Generation 2007” regime change cadre
The “real work” began two years
later, in 2007, when Guaidó graduated from Andrés Bello Catholic
University of Caracas. He moved to Washington, DC to enroll in the
Governance and Political Management Program
at George Washington University, under the tutelage of Venezuelan
economist Luis Enrique Berrizbeitia, one of the top Latin American
neoliberal economists. Berrizbeitia is a former executive director
of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who spent more than a decade
working in the Venezuelan energy sector, under the old oligarchic regime
that was ousted by Chávez.”
Anyone thinking we’re saving these people is falling for propaganda.
Hmmm. Interesting background on Guaido.
There’s no hope they can do it on their own? You are probably correct. Still headwinds might just wear oligarchs down when they can’t get any more out of austerity. You are right. Too bad. Humanity is probably doomed to shine shoes and chop down forests.
Rule #39; No vegetarians and everybody drives a huge pick up truck with gigantic exhaust pipes.
You forgot the part about pricing everyone out of getting more than a 8th grade education that doesn’t prepare you to be a systems manager of the .001%’s system.
Or is that #5 ?
The yellow vests are showing one way to focus collective intelligence. Just for fun, I am making a picture story about it spreading here http://www.zerowastenews.org/Cetacea-landing/Cetacea-landing-draft.html
With the NED bloodbath flooding the streets of Caracas, “peaceful regime change” is already off the table. The only question now is how bloody is this thing gonna get?
Just once I’d like to hear a leader specify WHICH options are really on the table, instead of tiresomely repeating this trite nonsense.
On the table:
1. Bomb the country down to bedrock.
2. Bomb the country down to the liquid iron core of the earth.
3. Bomb the country so hard it flies off the earth and accelerates into a black hole.
Not on the table:
1. Minding our own business.
2. Solving a problem.
3. Sanity.
There’s no profit for the elite’s in that last list.
Option 1.3 is kind of new…
Options 2.x seems like total science fiction fantasy.
Referring to the first, or second list Brock ? :?)
There are two lists; the first covering bombing options is 1.1-3, the second covering reasonable options is 2.1-3.
Did the Mustache of Doom just twitch?
When Bolton was asked why he didn’t serve in Vietnam, he didn’t dodge the question and readily admitted he believed it to be a lost cause.
Its not so easy to advocate kinetic actions when its your whiskers on the firing line, in this case more figuratively but real enough for a professional political operator.
We might not be rushing sending thousands of invasion forces to Venezuela’s border. We might not be moving forward bombers to the region. We would prefer to overthrow Venezuela’s democratically elected government without actually using the massive military which we are threatening to use. How civilized..?