Posted on 11/16/2018 4:49:36 PM PST by Kaslin
He’d better do it before the Rats introduce the Maduro Protection Act.
Air drop weapons and Special Forces there
Stay the hell out of it. The sh*t is going to hit the fan soon enough and its going to be ugly. If we get involved we will wind up owning that mess.
“Hitting their oil sales market through sanctions would be ineffective for two reasons. First, too many other nations would refuse to participate, particularly Russia and China. And second, their oil industry has pretty much imploded anyway.”
Or, perhaps, the fact that the U.S. is now producing copious amounts of oil and gas (and coal) has something to do with the recent implosion of the price of oil worldwide. More supply = lower prices. Ironically, this means much less* money for suppliers. (Oil from some of Alberta’s oil sands now costs more to extract, process, and ship, than it’s worth.) That’s got to be hurting Venezuela more. And Iran. And Russia. It’s like OPEC in reverse. No sanctions required.
* Price inelasticity, and all that.
yea they will be at our borders like the alamo soon
The brits probably don’t have the gold.
Trust our bank with your 550 million dollars worth of gold so we can steal it.
Theft by rationalization.
Excellent point, because I don’t doubt that they would do it.
“Stay the hell out of it. The sh*t is going to hit the fan soon enough and its going to be ugly. If we get involved we will wind up owning that mess.”
Exactly!
Any time Venezuela comes up someone needs to remind President Trump “if we break it, we bought it”.
Maduro is going down, just a matter of time.
Let the Venezuelan people clean up their own mess. They started it with Chavez and continued with Maduro. They broke it, they bought it.
That link actually is to the Washington Times, not the Post.
Yes, Jeff Flake will certainly demand it.
Not if our involvement is strictly to freeze their assets. I am guessing Great Britain is involved too, as I don’t see how Trump could have their assets frozen if they are in English Banks, which is where the Washington Times article says they’re located.
Government 101.
Has to be passed by senate and signed by trump before becoming law.
I would suggest an immediate rescue mission headed by newly-elected Congresscritter Occasional-Cortex to straighten things out down there in Venezuela.
Didn’t President Trump make the threat of sending U.S. troops into Venezuela?
VZ and Cuba are behind much of the “migrant” mess. They both make a lot of money on it. Get rid of Maduro and bring VZ back to being the prosperous, modern country it once was before the Marxists got into power (elected the first time, expelled and then reinstated by Bush, who didn’t let the Venezuelans shoot Chavez at the airport after his coup attempt or even take him out and quietly drop him off at wave number 2 billion in the Caribbean).
And don’t forget: Cuba is not our friend and there’s no reason to let up on the sanctions, since Cuba is actively undermining both us and Mexico through its drug running and people smuggling activities. That’s how it makes its money, and what keeps its cute old cars running is oil from VZ.
Getting rid of one or both of these dictatorships will bring a lot of peace to Latin America in general and reduce “migration” dramatically.
Cool, let’s destabilize another country in Latin America so the Democrats can take in millions of more refugees.
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