Under an official declaration of war, I see no problem with trump's action here. Without one, it's an entirely different situation. We are NOT at war with the country of Venezuela. In this instance, Trump is doing more harm to an American company than either Chavez or Maduro. Chevron has a long standing presence in Venezuela which predates it's recent dictatorships. Even with Chavez and Maduro, they are still in business there while Trump wants to put them out of business entirely. In earlier times when our government didn't like the leader of another nation it took him out in some form or fashion. Now, it seems, we take out American companies and punish their share holders. Something is wrong with this picture.
Having an American presence there of some sort has strategic value to the national security interest of this nation. Chevron doing business there represents some semblance of American presence without the burdens that come with trying to engage their leaders on a diplomatic level. Why throw this asset away by running them out of the country?
What would the US position have been if in the middle of WWII, a US company chose to build a company location in Japan or Germany? We are at war. Undeclared or not, we are at war. We are fighting an asymmetrical war, but war never-the-less.”
Under an official declaration of war, I see no problem with trump’s action here. Without one, it’s an entirely different situation. We are NOT at war with the country of Venezuela. In this instance, Trump is doing more harm to an American company than either Chavez or Maduro. Chevron has a long standing presence in Venezuela which predates it’s recent dictatorships. Even with Chavez and Maduro, they are still in business there while Trump wants to put them out of business entirely. In earlier times when our government didn’t like the leader of another nation it took him out in some form or fashion. Now, it seems, we take out American companies and punish their share holders. Something is wrong with this picture.
Having an American presence there of some sort has strategic value to the national security interest of this nation. Chevron doing business there represents some semblance of American presence without the burdens that come with trying to engage their leaders on a diplomatic level. Why throw this asset away by running them out of the country
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A lot of words and not a whole lot of thing said. You should run for office