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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.