Can Latin America handle Venezuela’s collapse without the U.S.?

WaPo ^ | 30 Sep 2018 | Jackson Diehl, Dep Edutorial Page Editor

[JackPot66]

Yes indeed. Remember when Venezuela confiscated/Nationalized America’s oil refinery’s? How long ago. Another Socialist run Country is about to bite the dust. Will American Socialists, the Democratic Party, send their money to help, or scream and cry for Republican’s to send their money? Interesting to watch.

[eyeamok]

We need a National Campaign calling on ALL Young Socialist College Students to head down to Venezuela where Socialism and Utopia are one and the same. Only YOU can Save Venezuela from the evil Capitalist’s trying to take away their utopian dream.

[GaryCrow]

NO MORE intervention into socialist schitholes to save them from themselves. No more white knighting. We should only intervene if the security situation represents a direct threat to the U.S.

Once the collapse happens, and it will, then we can offer aid as a condition of, and after they’ve purged their government of socialist influences. That means kicking all the Cuban and Chinese communists out of the country too.

Only then should we offer a measured hand of assistance.

[ßuddaßudd]

can we send our daca immigrants there ?¿ ☼

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

I’m over 70. All my life, Latin Americans have been complaining about how terrible it was to have the US even in the same hemisphere. I sure don’t want to see one dollar of my tax money go to bail out those screaming, incompetent saps. They don’t like America? OK, then leave us alone.

If all their economies collapse, we could hire a few to build the Wall higher. But that’s all.

[lurk]

This is an instructive moment for the whole of South America. They will need to appraise the merits of free societies v controlled societies. Meanwhile not one round of US ammo is fired.

[Desron13]

"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."

My answer to the South American Nations is the same as the one to my own government. Build that wall and build it HIGH! Build it long and build it deep. We shouldn't give any of them the time of day. They made this mess and blamed us for their own dalliances with Marxism. Now let them rot with it. Oh yeah, and tell any American company doing business down there to get out now because we won't be bailing you out if you get "Nationalized" by any of these bands of looters masquerading as a government.