After last week’s US-backed coup failed to install Juan Guaido in power in Venezuela, Guaido remains keen to be supported by the US, and told Italian newspaper La Stampa that he would “probably accept” a US offer to invade.
Though the Trump Administration has constantly threatened to invade Venezuela in recent months, it appears they have yet to explicitly make an offer to Guaido to do so. Clearly the US would want to use such an acceptance as cover for a unilateral invasion.
Yet the Trump Administration has so long taken the liberty of speaking for Guaido in the international community, it probably feels his imprimatur is less about what Guaido says, and more about what the administration can claim he’d want.
The US has hoped that threatening the existing Venezuelan government and the international community would eventually see the regime change happen. As that continues to fail to work, however, hawks in the administration have been pushing for a direct US military involvement.
An invasion isn’t going to happen.
Do we oppose regime change or is our only concern preventing American casualties? US troops did not land in Iraq in 1953 or the Congo in 1961 or Ghana in 1966 or Chile in 1971 or Libya in 2011.
Sanctioning countries into economic ruin and arranging coups to overthrow elected official doesn’t count. Trump hasn’t started any new wars don’t ya know.
How generous. What a guy.
“Yet the Trump Administration has so long taken the liberty of speaking for Guaido in the international community, it probably feels his imprimatur is less about what Guaido says, and more about what the administration can claim he’d want”.
What a load of bull.
Guaido is a US puppet and does exactly what the US tells him to do.
What generosity from Macrobama himself!!
I do not know of a simple way to do invading. A little invading will not do. With Army and armed popular units militia — a level of force would require tens of thousands troops, after bombing, then probably very little chance to control the interior. All that for humanitarian purposes? And then occupy how long? I guess they assumed populace would be passive and easy to subdue. Proponents of wars slways try to make it sound easy and quickly achievable.
Trump will not invade Venezuela,
not his style.
He will rattle sabers while strangling it economically.
I wanna be king of Norway. Please send us military to over throw their gov and install me king. Oh, and, um, ….make it snappy.