Posted on 04/30/2019 4:26:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
Things continue to intensify in Venezuela as Nicolas Maduro's people run over opposition protestors with armed vehicles and spray crowds with live ammunition. National Security Advisor John Bolton on Tuesday said "all options are on the table" as far as United States' intervention goes, The Hill reported.
“We want as our principle objective the peaceful transfer of power, but I will say again as the president has said from the outset ... all options are on the table,” Bolton said. "Over 40 people have been killed by the Maduro regime in the course of these protests."
The Western hemisphere recognizes Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's legitimate president, despite dictator Nicolas Maduro's continued reign.
“We recognize Juan Guaidó as the legitimate interim president of Venezuela. And just as it's not a coup when the president of the United States gives an order to the Department of Defense, it's not a coup for Juan Guaidó to try and take command of the Venezuelan military.”
According to Bolton, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino; Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice President Maikel Moreno Pérez; and Venezuela’s Directorate General of Military Counter-Intelligence Commander Ivan Rafael Hernandez Dala previously said Maduro needed to be ousted. They supported Guaidó as the country's replacement.
“All agreed that Maduro had to go. They need to be able to act this afternoon or this evening to help bring other military forces to the side of the interim president,” Bolton said. “We think it’s still very important for key figures in the regime who have been talking to the opposition over these last three months to make good on their commitments to achieve the peaceful transfer of power."
The balance of power depends on Venezuelan's other top military leaders taking a firm stand in making sure Guaidó is put in power. This has been a top priority of the Trump administration.
“It’s a very delicate moment,” Bolton said. “I want to stress again that the president wants to see a peaceful transfer of power from Maduro to Guaidó. The possibility still exists if enough figures depart from the regime and support the opposition and that’s what we’d like to see.”
I’ll bet those Cubans are in Venezuela to help hand out food from Cuba to the people in Venezuela who are starving under socialist rule.
What a bunch of swell guys.
Maybe they should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
Tell that to the Jews who went to the gas chambers.
Build the WALL for goodness sakes!
I voted for no more NeoCon wars. What happened?
Don’t care about Cuba. Busted, broken and ineffective. Let them shoot their last wad in South America. The revolution could easily spread to Cuba all on it’s own.
You confused my screen name with the failed strategy of endless, unlimited war. Your bad.
At some point does our regime change chaos cause a very large alliance of countries to fight back?
Plus being in this hemisphere,they have to mind their p’s and q’s.
Tell that to the Jews that actually fought in the Warsaw ghetto. The rest, just watched it happen until it was to late. Besides they were a minority. The starving population in VZ is a majority.
Long way to swim from Venezuela to Cuba.
How much will it cost?
Democrats always say their wish lists are too important to ask about the cost. AOC says that. It looks like you do too
Bolton is telling it just like it is. Someone has to.
Bolton skipped out when he had the chance to fight for freedom in Vietnam. But he seems very eager to send other people to die in regime change wars
He really called out Cuba and Russia and clearly stated their roles in all this, especially Cuba and their thugs on motorcycles.
Why did Bolton decline to serve in Vietnam? Do you know? He’s very tough - in sending other people’s kids to pointless wars
Back when I was in the army it was yeah, kick ass. Now that I have two sons in, not so much.
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I can appreciate that. We seem to get drawn into too many foreign engagements that don’t have exit strategies. It stress our military personnel and exhausts our resources so I’m all for cutting down on our eagerness to get involved in places where we’re not really wanted or appreciated.
My concern is that while we get distracted and exhausted by endless foreign deployments we are neglecting threats closer to home.
Hope your sons stay safe.
It looks like you do too
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No, I just look at more dimensions of problems than you do.
“We need to demonstrate our unrelenting resolve to force him out.”
Why?
Surely there’s a list of essential US interests at stake to justify and invasion of another country.
What are they?
At some point does our regime change chaos cause a very large alliance of countries to fight back?
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What large alliances are you thinking of? How large? In what regions? Obviously you have some in mind.
Does the idea of Russian naval and air bases in Cuba and Venezuela trouble you? Are you OK with Russian submarines routinely operating in the Carribean just a short missile flight away?
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