Posted on 10/01/2018 12:17:51 AM PDT by blueplum
As hundreds of thousands of desperate Venezuelans flee their country, in many cases on foot, their Latin American neighbors face a critical test: whether they can respond effectively to a crisis that threatens their own stability without the leadership of the United States.
So far, they are flunking — and they know it. “The answer is, we can’t,” says Colombia’s ambassador in Washington, Francisco Santos. “It’s sad to say, but we can’t.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Venezuela is still socialist and refuses to change. We can’t solve their problem if they insist on continuing their problem. “USA please help make socialism work” is an impossible request, as is “USA please keep bailing us out until socialism starts to succeed”. We should build a Wall and leave them on their own to learn that socialism is a guarantee of misery, especially for those in greatest need.
Let them figure it out by themselves.
No direct intervention.
Maybe debt relief.
Any aid should be in the form of food logistics but no cash.
depends on what the meaning of “handle” is.
if you mean beg china for crumbs-for-oil and pretend that the socialist starving are doing ok, then yes.
Yes, go.
When the state falls apart and the army takes over—then we can help them recover—send food and medicine. BUT only when they reject Socialism and return to a democratic form of government.
Wasted efforts if they remain socialists.
They wont change, any help given props up a failed system.
What the Washington Post really wants is a transfer of wealth from the United States to Venezuela, millions and millions, billions, of dollars. No way, José.
Maduro needs to swing from a lamppost at the hands of his own people.
Well, you can’t both have a world in which the U.S. respects national sovereignty AND one where you can call upon the U.S. to disregard it, fix the problem, and walk off to be cursed as imperialist immediately thereafter. That convenient little game is over.
Build the Wall a few feet higher, and label it as the Venezuelan Addition. It can serve as an object lesson on the efficacy of Socialism.
As others have pointed out, helping Third World Holes is an exercise in futility. With no reward.
Let’s compromise and just give them Jeff Bozos.
I don’t care what happens to them, as long as it doesn’t affect us.
... and the people of Venezuela and Latin America will give us their undying gratitude.
No, I say let Sweden handle it. They’re rich, they’ve got nothing else to do.
I can only guarantee one thing. The U.S. will be criticized no matter what we do or how we do it. We will be criticized for doing nothing, but that’s way easier and much, much cheaper. We tried this BS in Iraq. How’d that work out? Since we cannot win, why bother? Why spend billions, perhaps a trillion, borrowed dollars to rescue people from their own foolishness. Foolishness that was *intended* to harm the U.S. as a by-product.
They have spent the last 20 years giving us the finger, now they expect us to bail them out.
¡De ninguna manera!
We don’t have a dog in this fight. I feel sorry for people in Venezuela, but actions have consequences. You wanted Chavez, you got Maduro. Let them serve as an example to others.
It will all depend on what out bankers want.
The rest of the world is still used to the automatic solicitation of the US and resultant bailout.
Truthfully I don’t want to even give them that. They voted to become a s#!thole despite the dire warnings and over a century of empirical history, let South America wallow in it. Sometimes ones highest and best use is to serve as an example to others.
Maybe they can ask Chavez’ daughter to give back the money he stole.
Tough cr@p-—let them wallow in it down there!
If we go in we take the oil.
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