Posted on 01/28/2019 7:39:43 AM PST by Candor7
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told me that as recently as a couple of weeks ago Trump mused to him about the possibility of using military force in Venezuela, where the U.S. government is currently pushing for regime change using diplomatic and economic pressures.
What happened: Graham, recalling his conversation with Trump, said: "He [Trump] said, 'What do you think about using military force?' and I said, 'Well, you need to go slow on that, that could be problematic.' And he said, 'Well, I'm surprised, you want to invade everybody.'"
Graham laughed. "And I said, 'I don't want to invade everybody, I only want to use the military when our national security interests are threatened.'"
"Trump's really hawkish" on Venezuela, the hawkish Graham added in a phone interview on Sunday afternoon, adding that Trump was even more hawkish than he was on Venezuela.
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You are on a roll today. Good.
We won't -- Venezuela will.
It would be very good to teach the Russians and Chinese that lending money to failing socialist countries in the Americas is a very bad idea.
One of the features of most revolutions is that they repudiate the debt of the previous regime. Don't pretend that the Russians and Chinese didn't know this.
Here’s the problem:
Democracy doesn’t care about isms. Capitalism or Socialism — both derive from money, a substance the Federal Reserve creates from thin air by whim. Yes, pure whimsy.
Do you really want to undo Democracy because of a philosophy based on a substance created by whim?
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