When the Venezuelan coup attempt launched earlier Tuesday, the
administration likely didn’t figure on having to justify its failure,
when officials were loudly endorsing what they’d dubbed Operacion
Libertad.
By evening, the operation had failed, however, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took to CNN to try to pin the blame on Russia and Cuba for meddling, while claiming the US was very close to getting the regime change it wanted.
“He had an airplane on the tarmac, he was ready to leave this morning as
we understand it,” Pompeo said, claiming Russia called Maduro and
convinced him to stay. He further claimed Maduro is “surrounded by
Cubans.”
Pompeo added that he’s warned both Russia and Cuba that “it is
unacceptable to starve people.” Though it seems the coup has failed at
this point, Pompeo claimed it remains “incredible fluid,” and anything
is liable to still happen.
Im really struggling to think of a more offensive bag of wind than Pompeo. Boris Johnson seems almost sane by comparison.
Israeli Avigdor Lieberman…
Wow. You did it.
Sadly, Lieberman is a real piece of Human waste, just like his prime minister…
I’d sooner lick Boris’ grey taint than share an elevator ride with Pompeo.
Yeah right you liar Pompeo. I guess Russia is behind why you are so overweight too; they somehow make you keep eating. Good lord Pompeo, your regime change operation failed big time and frankly if we had a legitimate UN, they would bring international criminal charges against you and Bolton.
Wheres John Kelly ? Former board member of the School of the Americas, and SouthCom commander during the Honduran coup.
Yes, starving people is wrong unless of course we’re backing/enabling the Saudis and the mass starvation in Yemen.
Someone needs to remind Pompeo that words have meaning and he can’t just keep sprewing BS out of his pie hole like some overflowing toilet.
The truth is that only an imbecile like him could concoct such a transparently false narrative and blame his own failure on Russia. The only situation that remains “incredibly fluid” is the situation in his pants once the real facts come out and he has to face Congress over it.
I wholeheartedly agree, Thomas Carlson .. Somebody must remind Pompous that words do have meaning and he can;t just keep spewing BS out of his pie hole like some overflowing toilet. The truth is that only an idiot like him could concoct such a false narrative and blame his own failure on Russia. The only situation that remains “incredibly fluid” is the situation in his pants, once the real facts come out and he has to face Congress over it all.
It is a tragedy for the Venezuelan people, in their suffering, to get caught up in great power rivalry akin to the 19th century, events that eventually resulted in the First World War – then the second. A South American Spring would create a dangerous flash point, possibly resulting in a domino effect towards World War Three. There are enough regional conflicts that could ignite it as it is. But the pattern of history is quite clear.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
A mendacious sack of lard.
Brennan, Clapper, Hayden, Stelter, Bolton, Abrams, Pompeo, Nadler, Pelosi, Schiff. Butt ugly ***AND*** evil. Do we detect a pattern? A connection? Enquiring minds want to know.
When it comes to ugly/evil, they are all interchangeable.
We certainly do detect a pattern here, yomama, as well as a connection. Every name you listed here are all evil traitors and mass murderers who deserve to be tossed into Gitmo forever.
If it is unacceptable to starve people, then the US should stop doing it. It does, by sanctions, and as hundreds of thousands of children died, the Sec of State Albright assured us it was “worth it.”
“The shining city on the hill.”
And the hill is a mound of corpses. Somehow, nuclear war doesn’t seem quite so bad right about now.
It is amazing how all media follows neocon script. Foxx including. As a result, the laughable videos of unrest were accepted as real — even though we know that the smoke bombs were not tear gas, as people did not have their eyes ot nose and mouth covered. The van driving presumably into crowd just sauntered off, with almost disinterested crowd running aimlessly without crowd attemting to hit it or anything. No injured people after that? People in uniform supporting Guaido?
This was not worthy police crowd control effort, and we have not seen anyone with police gear. A bys put in fire fir effect, a trash truck coming through. No military came out.
The sticky problem for the democrats is that their establishment wants Trump to send military, just do not know how to do itt. Continued pressure on him loks like the ticket.
But how can the sooo sensitive Demicrats square this problem. In Venezuela we are supporting the Venezuelans of European descent that ruled until Chavez won over native Venezuelans forever. But now the natives have ID and they vote — people like Guaido never allowed them to vote in the past. So, natives know EXACTLY what this is all about. They are quiet and ready, and they are armed. Maduro was elected by them, and after Maduro there will be another one supported by natives. So the only way to get the oul is to have the tiny minority if Venezuelans of European descent grab power by force and never again let natives vote. Or trick them by Brazil style “their” guy.
Either way, Maduro has backing iof the vast majority of people, thus the military is not budging.
Any intervention will be Vietnam, And sad for US — the split between natives and pro-American European elites can surface in other countries, causing further instability. Pompeo compared it to Syria with Rusdians in.
But it will be more like Vietnam,
As if we need another war. And more refugees. Can neocons from bith parties really be stopped, ot we just are doomed to be pushed into wars until we are trully and really broke?
Tucker Carlson did not follow the script.
He had on for his last segment Journalist Anya Parampil who was awesome. She should be on every TV circuit out there. Tucker should have given her more air time than that stooge Rep from Florida.
“In Venezuela we are supporting the Venezuelans of European descent that ruled until Chavez won over native Venezuelans forever.”
The truth is right there, so easy to see. You see it. I see it. But with the MSM and most pols denying reality — “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” — I wonder how many others see it? A lot, I suspect, even though they ***NEVER*** — as in NEVER EVER — show up on cable or MSM.
I was watching Tucker last night and he featured a clip from Rick Scott where he declared ***GENOCIDE!!!***. Then he had on Rep Diaz-Balart, and old anti-Castro Cuban Banana Republican whose Congressional district is Hialeah, home of the South Florida Cuban community (plus the Everglades). And he was going full Banana-Republican nutbag. He said there were 20 – 25,000 Cubans in Venezuela. (Some security personnel to be sure, but mostly doctors and teachers.) Oh my God!! Cuban commie devils!! Plus the rest of the boogiemen crowd: Russia, China, and … wait for it … Hezbollah and Iran.
We are living in the asylum.
“Russia, China Behind Defeat of Venezuela Coup” … meaning that the US is in fact in favor of a military coup in a foreign state? You know, we used to hide these things better in the old days …
“Pompeo added that he’s warned both Russia and Cuba that “it is unacceptable to starve people.””
For the country that is sanctioning and is the main cause of the distress of the Venezuelan economy to call others on starvation is simply perverse. How does this guy’s head not just burst from the contradictory thoughts he must contain?
“How does this guy’s head not just burst from the contradictory thoughts he must contain?”
This is a question I ask myself all the time. And there’s so much of it going around in the age of Trump.
And yesterday, as I watched sound bites of the Dem Prez candidates, I thought to myself, “How do you plan a political campaign — what constitutes a rational approach — when your constituency is bat-crap crazy?
Are you calling the Dem Prez candidates sane?
Hmmm. You have a point. Maybe my notion of a rational approach is off the mark. Maybe, it’s inherently easier to campaign for the votes of the deranged if you yourself suffer from the same derangement.
Yeah, I think you found the answer. Thanks.
His noggin don’t burst cause the dude ain’t human–he’s subhuman.
“It’s unacceptable to starve people.”…. Bombing people though is OK.
Nope, but only when we’re doing the bombing.
And only when we’re doing the starving…
As well as beheading and crucifiction.
That is the freedom they believe in. Freeing peoples heads from their bodies.
Don’t you just love it when the winner of the John Wayne Gacy lookalike contest blurts out his desperate excuses? Ye olde dependable Russia! Russia! Russia! What a fabulous spectacle!
Totally fabricated story by US… Pimpeo forgot to blame the third country, Iran. I guess Iran is too far from Venezuela to be involved…But wait a minute, Iran is closer than China to Venezuela!?
“Pompeo added that he’s warned both Russia and Cuba that “it is unacceptable to starve people.””
What a ridiculous f**king human being. Russia and Cuba came to deliver food because Pompeo blocked it with sanctions. Not to mention that this is the asshat who has to brush his teeth with bleach every night just to get the taste Mohammed Bone-saw’s jizz out of his mouth. How does a clown like that look in the mirror every morning and not want to put a campfire out with his f**king face. F**k him and the strange orange beast he rode in on.
Hold on to your hats folks, I’m coming in hot.
Just like president Trump. He initiates the uprising, indications are now failure, and then blames Russia and China. America has a real problem with the WH gang that is unable to see or understand what they are doing in Venezuela. The WH just does not have the savvy to lead and befriend neighboring countries
Cant seem to get along with his own country. His base has kill lists for the opposition….