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US military intervention on the table for Venezuela
Washington Examiner ^ | April 5 2018 | Joe Gehrke

Posted on 04/06/2019 3:30:20 PM PDT by rintintin

A military intervention to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro remains “a very serious option” for the United States, according to President Trump’s national security team.

“Obviously, that’s a result that no one would like to see but clearly one that is seriously considered as events unfold,” a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters Friday evening.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Cuba; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: anonymous; cuba; nicaragua; russia; venezuela
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To: DoughtyOne

I suspect the people of Venezuela would welcome it.


They need to get themselves out of it, or the lessons won’t be learned, if they’re learned at all.

The lesson is that socialism doesn’t work and leaders are only as corrupt as you allow them to be.

If we save them, they’ll hate us for it (see France, WWII), and vote themselves right back into socialism.


81 posted on 04/06/2019 7:00:57 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: TBP

LOL


82 posted on 04/06/2019 7:04:32 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: rintintin

I wonder why so many people are nationalist thinking here yet they don’t believe in Venezuela’s sovereignty enough to let them sort their problems out.
There are conflicting opinions on what are the reasons of Venezuela’s downturn and the opinion that they made their bed by voting socialist has merits.
That’s not anyone’s else business. If they like freedom enough they’d solve it themselves and if they don’t they deserve any of this.


83 posted on 04/06/2019 7:08:09 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: jmacusa

I spent alot of weekends at the
Fence in Campo so perhaps I got
Some more interest than most.
Trump’s got This and I’m not
getting my butt involved.
Venezuela,,
Norks,
Enemies Foreign and Domestic,,,
???
I’ll be standing by, thanks.


84 posted on 04/06/2019 7:10:04 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: DoughtyOne

I suspect the people of Venezuela would welcome it.

Maybe. But that’s not a reason to do it.


85 posted on 04/06/2019 7:35:05 PM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Many of them are probably from DU.


86 posted on 04/06/2019 7:45:46 PM PDT by Oklahoma
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To: DoughtyOne
*** I suspect the people of Venezuela would welcome it. ***

Juan Guaidó's supporters are whiter than a Minnesota country club. They are not the average Venezuelan.


87 posted on 04/06/2019 8:01:44 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: rintintin

Well...

If it keeps Russia and China out, it may be a good idea.

That’s a place we’re not going to stay.

The legitimate government needs to be allowed to come to power.

It will be a lot less of a headache if that takes place.


88 posted on 04/06/2019 8:27:29 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: jmacusa

Where was that ever decided?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
During the GHW Bush administration.

It’s the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).

It’s a necessary step to steal the country from the citizens to subsume the US to the UN to get to the New World Order.


89 posted on 04/06/2019 8:28:08 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: sockmonkey

I hadn’t realized that. Thanks. Interesting...


90 posted on 04/06/2019 8:28:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Hostage

It’s a deeply indoctrinated Pavlovian response.


91 posted on 04/06/2019 8:52:39 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Let’s not overlook the fact the Vens voted for socialism when they voted for Hugo.


92 posted on 04/06/2019 9:13:30 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: DoughtyOne

The legitimate government needs to be allowed to come to power.

Maybe, but not by us. Trump was elected by promising no more George Bush foreign policy of intervening abroad and neglecting Americans


93 posted on 04/06/2019 9:44:25 PM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: rintintin

China is already making inroads into South America.

We don’t need massive unrest down there.

How would you like to see China colonize South America?


94 posted on 04/06/2019 10:27:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: lastchance

Ummm - just means we are saying the obvious...all options are on the table for everything....not too mention that stories such as this tend to also get responses from others that may have their own interests in the area which helps clarify what we need to do...of course, it also gets all the concern trolls worked up, but that’s what they seem to exist for anyway.


95 posted on 04/07/2019 3:44:32 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: rintintin
I thought Trump said no more foreign interventions and nation-building ? I thought he said we’re going to rebuild America?

I thought that too.

He didn't tell us about Jared Kushner, though.

96 posted on 04/07/2019 3:46:24 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: Grampa Dave
“Who in their ‘right mind’, thinks President Trump is listening to this BS.”

I am appalled by the level of ignorance spewed by some phoney “Conservatives” on FR.

Trump won by running as an American acknowledging objective reality!

97 posted on 04/07/2019 3:54:46 AM PDT by texican01
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To: rintintin

We should let the people of venezuela suffer just like the people of cuba have suffered since 1959. They chose stupid and emotional people to lead them, let them suffer under what those leaders have wrought.I

For those who did not pick the socialist idiot leaders, it is time to pick up a gun.

JoMa


98 posted on 04/07/2019 4:19:14 AM PDT by joma89
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To: rintintin

Now that China and Russia are putting troops in Venezuela to bolster Maduro sadly it may force Trump’s hand.


99 posted on 04/07/2019 7:47:30 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: texican01
Thanks FRiend for posting this reality!

I am appalled by the level of ignorance spewed by some phoney “Conservatives” on FR.

Trump won by running as an American acknowledging objective reality!

100 posted on 04/07/2019 9:56:32 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone trusting the media has failed a competency check or/and is a paid troll for the lefties.)
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