President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday did not offer substantive discussion of US foreign policy, but he did invite Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, singling him out in the audience to talk up the US determination to see him installed into power. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the Democrats all joined in giving Guaido a standing ovation.
Trump’s talk of moves in the hemisphere started with chiding “Socialist dictators” in Cuba and Nicaragua, as well as Venezuela. Trump said he is leading 58 nations united against Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro, and assuring Guaido that “all Americans” remain united in support of him, and of “freedom.”
Trump further emphasized the general US spending on the American military, saying $2 trillion had been spent, and declaring the reconstruction of the US military to have been already achieved.
On top of this, Trump emphasized the creation of the US Space Force, the first new branch of the US military in generations. Trump insisted the new capability was “so important,” and introduced a young student who he said has interest in joining the US Air Force with an eye on becoming part of Space Force.
Nuts!
nuts is that corrupt ex bus driver nicky “pockets” maduro running things. not for long.
Unfortunately for Trump the UN General Assembly is 170 nations which recognize Maduro as the president of Venezuela.
unfortunately for venezuela we do not recognize the UN General Asssembly any international laws or adhere to that IOC court in the hague. we have 58 legitimate countries that recognize guaido and would work with us to eliminate maduro at a moments notice. but we don’t need help to rectify a minor situation like him.
I guess I didn’t miss anything.
NPR calls Guaido “Venezuelan leader”. Ridiculous & repugnant US media.
he will lead you out of the despair that nicky “pockets” maduro has led you into.
God help us …
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the Democrats all joined in giving Guaido a standing ovation.
There is no difference between the 2 parties…..except the logo.
The dem policy on Venezuela sucks. But there is a difference,…the number of dems that oppose the latest round of sanctions is equivalent to the gop numbers that flat out want to invade. There’s yer difference.
Also missing was any reference to Brexit completed, good buddy Johnson, and trade agreement with Great Britain. Nothing about relations of Ukraine and Russia. Nothing about the Korea’s. Nothing about anything in Africa. The retraction into the shell USA is almost complete.
The retraction will not be complete until we close over 100 military bases in foreign countries and bring our soldiers home . How would we like it if hundreds of foreign countries had bases and soldiers here ?
we wouldn’t permit it. we have 800 military bases not 100 so maybe we could consolidate a couple of them. we’ve got moscow covered without any need of those supersonic missiles that they claim to have. we’ve got the entire east coast of china also covered with a ring of military bases so they are contained. we do it right.
Most Venezuelans didn’t even know who the hell this guy was prior to being declared the ‘legitimate President’ a year ago and most Venezuelans since then are shown to be either indifferent or strongly dislike him. It’s like if the Russian government picked some random guy off the streets in LA or Chicago and declared him the legitimate President of the US.
“It’s like if the Russian government picked some random guy off the streets in LA or Chicago and declared him the legitimate President of the US.”
AND then brought him to the equivalent of Russia’s SOTU address.
Well, except for the part where Venezuela’s legislature declared Maduro’s rigged election invalid, making Guaido interim president per that country’s constitution.
But yeah, except for that part there, yeah, it’s just like if the Russian government picked some random guy off the streets in LA or Chicago and declared him the legitimate President of the US.
I was talking about using him as a prop. I did that by continuing the other commentator’s thoughts that I had quotation marks around. I wasn’t commenting on the validity of Maduro’s election or whether Guaido was the legitimate interim president.
The U.S. legislators also think we had a rigged election and they tried to remove our president today . No foreign country helped our house .and nobody put sanctions on us . Why don’t mind our own business .
Funny how “no borders” anarcho-libertarians think like Kissinger when it comes to deposing South American leaders. Maybe Putin should launch a few nukes into Iowa, a backward State notorious for election irregularities.
Funny how you have not the slightest grasp of what I said.
Maduro is the President of Venezuela.
Maybe he is. He and his supporters appear to believe so.
The National Assembly says that he isn’t and Guaido is.
I don’t want the US government involved in the dispute, but I don’t have to pretend the matter is undisputed.
The only people disputing this are the CIA.
Lol yeah.
Well the democrats say Putin picked Trump . He was just a random guy off the streets , with no political experience , and now we love him . I wish Putin would pick our next president too even if Putin has to select a democrat . I sure don’t like the candidates the establishment picks .
That is true.
it is a litte difficult how Guaido could be the real president of Venezuela when he did not even run for president . I can’t see how the United States thinks they should select Venezuela’s president . Because the man selected is too socialist .
Well, the U.S. selected the Shah of Iran for their leader in 1953, and Victoria Nuland and Ambassador Pyatt selected a leader for Ukraine. There are numerous other examples of this, I am sure.
it is a litte difficult how Guaido could be the real president of Venezuela when he did not even run for president . I can’t see how the United States thinks they should select Venezuela’s president . Because the man selected is too socialist .
This by far was a total POS move on his part. In fact I don’t know of any President in the past who have supported puppet in this manner.
But worse part was the standing ovation by the “white coats”.