While insisting that US military intervention against Venezuela remains
on the table, Senate Armed Services Committee chief Sen. James Inhofe
(R-OK) has also claimed on Tuesday that the US would be obliged to intervene if Russia were to move weapons to Venezuela.
“We’d have to, not go to war, but use force,” Inhofe told reporters.
This claim appears not to be an actual obligation, but part of the idea
of the Monroe Doctrine that the US generally does intervene against
other countries getting involved in the entire Western Hemisphere.
And while Inhofe doesn’t appear to want to rule out attacking Venezuela
just unilaterally, as the administration is hoping to impose regime
change there, it is clear he views the war even more favorably if it can
somehow be turned into a proxy war against Russia.
Russia hasn’t suggested preemptive intervention in Venezuela like this
in the first place, of course. Indeed, the only Russian comments on the
power struggle in Venezuela have been to reject US demands for an
unconditional regime change.
But it’s OK for the US to pour weapons into countries directly bordering Russia. AND overthrow a government directly on Russia’s border.
Same arrogance is displayed throughout the world.
Inbred hick …draft the SOB and anyone in his family over 16.
What is this fascination that some people have with the idea of punishing the relatives of wrongdoers?
Inheritance
So they’re guilty of something they didn’t do, and therefore to be punished for something they haven’t yet done?
Exactly how inheritance works.
Usually your arguments make at least some sense. This one seems to consist of randomly stringing words together, not necessarily in complete sentence form.
Perhaps, wont Cheney’s kids inherit the monetary gains he made from his wars ?
That depends on whether or not he has a will and if so what it says. He might leave all of that money to Dr. Evil’s World Fuckery Fund, or an organization that makes YouTube videos of puppies being killed, or some other thing that he values very highly, instead of to his spawn.
It’s sort of like the withdrawal of troops from Syria — until and unless it actually happens, it hasn’t actually happened.
That wars exist is difficult enough. When we add the profit motive to this horror, those profits become an important part of reparations discussion. If I steal $1000, then quickly give it to Bob, does justice have the responsibility to take the money from Bob ? Poor Bob, had nothing to do with the crime. That a class of people profit from war, births the emotional response that their families pay the price of war participation, will never happen, but that is the emotional response. “Skin in the game” is not just an adage. I wonder, if Chelsea had to join the military, because of her parents choices to further war, rather than use her inherited position to go to Stanford, what exactly has been done to her ? Kids in poverty join the military all the time, isn’t it patriotic ? Serving ? Why should kids of the rich not be allowed to enjoy this wonderful character building experience?
“Serving ? Why should kids of the rich not be allowed to enjoy this wonderful character building experience?”
If you steal $1000 then quickly give it to Bob, yes, justice has responsibility to take it from Bob.
If you steal $1000 that you might eventually give to Bob, no, Bob’s not responsible for what you did.
Chelsea Clinton is responsible for everything she’s done since she’s been old enough to reasonably be considered an adult. The idea that it would have been better to enslave her as soon as she became an adult to punish her or her parents for previous or future things that were outside her power to control is repugnant.
Quite repugnant indeed. Rather than living within an economic system which offers the military, and war, for education or job training, she (just an example) can go to college with the money earned by her parents thru war investment. Unknown refugees, and casualties can pay her tuition. Not much incentive for our rulers to change the system, is it ? There are real people under those steel investments raining on their heads. Another example of privatize profits, socialize costs.
Yes, when she becomes an adult, if she’s benefiting from evil, that’s on her.
Indeed. And that is a dangerous slippery slope.
Sounds like what the Don proposed while campaigning. It’s always wrong.
Russia has become the all purpose excuse for our own worst leaders, from Bolton to Hillary.
What year does the good senator think it is? Are we still in the Cold War, fighting them Commies, keepin’ ’em out of “our” hemisphere?
America First??
Almost every senator from Oklahoma, with the exception of Sen. David Boren, is a nutjob.
Thanks, senator! You’ve just offered an open invitation to Maduro’s opponents to fabricate a false-flag operation.
As chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he’s probably already signed off on plans for such an operation if one is needed to justify the course of action he obviously desperately wants.
Rep. Ilhan Omar Grills Elliott Abrams on Support for Central American Genocide
If I were running Russia or China, I would send a brigade or two of troops with 100 tactical and 10 strategic nuclear weapons to Venezuela, with absolute local authority to use those nukes vested in the General in command, and then declare it after it is already a fact on the ground.