Posted on 08/14/2017 7:33:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Vice President Mike Pence, speaking from Colombia, emphasized today the U.S. has "many options" when it comes to dealing with the crisis in Venezuela.
"What's appropriate is for the United States of America to make it clear that we have, as the president said, many options on Venezuela," Pence said in an interview with NBC News. "We're simply not going to tolerate seeing Venezuela collapse into dictatorship."
"President Trump has made it clear - were simply not going to stand by while Venezuela crumbles," he continued.
Venezuela has recently been rocked by violent protests and political unrest. In a controversial vote in July, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro installed a constitutional assembly of his supporters, with the power to rewrite the country's constitution......
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Please. Please standby while it crumbles. Lower my taxes. Cut the size of government. Drain the swamp but for God sakes let it crumble.
His RINOism is disturbing.
Their location matters more than their resources.
China is a large investor in Venezuela.
If you don’t like N Korea nukes imagine the threat of Venezuela nukes.
As Herb Brooks said to Mike Eruzione - “You worry about your own game, Rizzo. Plenty there to keep you busy”.
You broke the code, bro
NO ONE one gives a rats ass about Venezuela “ crumbling” under the government THEY chose
Unless they are beholden to the American oil companies, that is
The Monroe Doctrine.
Too late to intervene to make Venezuela like it was in the 1970s.
Just nationalize the CITGO assets in the US.
We don’t want a dictatorship in our hemisphere that is one of the largest exporters of oil. Keep in mind Hezbollah and Hamas are now in Venezuela. Ready to help I am sure.
Prove that Ill. (The Sick State) can be fixed before going overseas.
Kind of late to be worrying about Venezuela, VP Pence...like you didn’t see it coming?
What about THIS Country!? We are falling apart at the seams and you blather about some backwater hellhole long after any of our help means diddly?
“We’re simply not going to tolerate seeing Venezuela collapse into dictatorship.”
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They have been under dictatorship for years.
Initially they voted for it.
Not our problem.
Yea, they voted for their hell. We voted the opposite!
South and Latin America have outgrown the Monroe Doctrine.
But the principles behind it still apply.
Yea, they voted for their hell. We voted the opposite!
It just irks me to no end. We don’t hear a word out of this pantywaist VP for months...and then he starts squawking about Venezuela?
The establishment has moved in to the Administration. Say what you will about General Flynn, but he didn’t want to intervene. He believed in what Trump ran on. McMaster is a neoconservative. He believes in intervening and nation building, and his philosophy is much different than Trump. The same liberals that want to purge Flynn, Bannon, Gorka, Miller, etc. and are allying with the neocons because they are Republicans that bash Trump are going to then be angry and blame Trump when we get into another war.
My hope is that Trump doesn’t do this. If we want to send them food and supplies to help the suffering, that’s fine, but we can’t get involved in another war.
Good point. Let that socialist crap hole fail bigly. Let the whole world see it.
No problem, just keep the oil flowing.
Yes, but they fired the knowledgeable engineers who knew how to get it into production in favor of their Commie lackies.
Development of the hard to get Vz reserves has been set back by decades.
No! We’ve thrown too much away on countries south of our southern border already. There’s no good side down there—only bad or ugly, communist or fascist, before and after actions. Individuals only conceal their hatred against us while trying to get US dollars.
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