“Somebody here wants to invade Venezuela??”
My guess was that was part of Trump’’s telecon with Putin today. Letting him know that whatever is planned won’t directly involve any Russians that are there, but at the same time telling him it would be a good idea to pull out his people and any aircraft that may be on the ground there at the moment. As the Ukraine is to us, so too is Venezuela to Russia. That is to say, for the Russians, Venezuela is an indefensible place for them to try to be.
Sure, we’ve done such a great job with Afghanistan and Iraq.
Trump ran on an end to nation building. Let’s hope he keeps that promise.
There is a great question and answer thing by Nixon on youtube. Some student asked Nixon about him being too chummy with the Soviets with all of the Detente stuff.
Nixon gave an answer something along the lines of “It is good that enemies know each other well. When the Soviets sent troops into Syria to square off against Israel, he (Breznev??) told me that we would have to send troops to Israel.
“No - I don’t think it would be a good idea to put our troops so close to yours. Just one litte error and it might touch something off. And if you attack Israel, I don’t want our troops anywhere near when we respond.”
Now - Breznev - he knew me. Others might have thought I was bluffing. But Breznev - he withdrew his troops and we avoided a conflict.
BTW - do we still honor the Monroe Doctrine that I learned about in High School?