Posted on 01/14/2019 3:36:12 AM PST by RoosterRedux
As I noted yesterday regarding National Security Advisor John Bolton's and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's statements, something is going on with Venezuela. Both Bolton and Pompeo told Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro to get the heck out and suggested the U.S. was ready to recognize National Assembly leader Juan Guaido as the country's president. They had perfect grounds for it, because Maduro illegally and unconstitutionally swore himself in to another term after a fraud election and didn't even show up at the right place for his inauguration. The statements coming from the U.S. were unprecedented - evidence of a true recognition of the facts on the ground, evidence of the U.S. leading, and evidence of "a plan," as I argued.
With everyone on the same page now, one can see the outlines of the stage in Venezuela being set for action.So now we're seeing a coordinated ballet of actions unfolding, from multiple directions, to an extent that actually reminds me of the series of events leading to the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
There's some kind of plan because according to some of the most credible Venezuelan sources on Twitter, this is what went down:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Fomenting an armed rebellion is hard when the citizens have no arms. And, sending in operatives to effect change didn’t do so well at the Bay of Pigs.
Maybe if the Venezuelan military suffer enough they will rise up, but North Korea’s military is willing to starve rather than fight. I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel in Venezuela.
As H.L. Mencken wrote, “The people deserve to get what they want, and they deserve to get it good and hard.”
Maybe they'll offer him a condo in Miami big enough for him and his harem and a means to transfer all of the money he stole. Cheaper than risking lives I suppose.
Maybe they’ll offer him a condo in Miami big enough for him and his harem and a means to transfer all of the money he stole. Cheaper than risking lives I suppose.
Or maybe they will go on the cheap and offer him a bullet ...
Today's NK military has never experience freedom, only depression, misery, starvation and paranoia.
Even mentioning dissatisfaction of little Kim to a fellow soldier could get you turned in and ultimately executed.
About two years the local humane society raided a puppy mill of Sheltys that were housed in cages and never let outside. My neighbor adopted one of them which was about 8 months to a year old. When she got it home, it barely knew how to walk and kinda staggered around. It didn't even know what to make of the yard and everything around it. It didn't even know how to play and to this day it still doesn't. It doesn't even bark when she lets it outside. It does get excited when I walk over to it to give it a biscuit.
I only mention this because the dog reminds me of the NK's who are kept in their own cages, not knowing what the outside world is really about.....
Hopefully he’ll get the Mussolini treatment.
Those Venezuelans that voted for communism should have known that there is only one time you get a choice between communism and capitalism.
Once the commie wins, there are no more free elections.
I say let them suffer for all eternity. And do not let any of them out of that $hit hole country.
Yup. There will be no insurrections in NK, either.
Or maybe they will go on the cheap and offer him a bullet ...
Leave them to their chosen fate, pour encourager les autres ...
Oh Lord...here we go again.
For Pete’s sake, do you honestly think VZ has had an honest election in the last 15 or 20 years where the people actually voted for Chavez or Maduro? The place is a police state, complete with Communist Chinese-style “neighborhood watch” committees surveilling their neighbors. It is also directly under the control of Cuba, which supplies agents and military forces to keep the people under control. VZ, in return, provides Cuba with oil.
This all could have been avoided years ago, when Chavez was kicked out the first time. The military had him at the airport and was about to execute him or exile him, and Pres. Bush intervened. So he was released and with the help of Cuba, got back into power.
I’m just glad to see that most of the other Lat Am governments are finally standing up to this, because VZ and Cuba are spreading their Marxist poison throughout Latin America and also are involved in the human trafficking and “migrant caravan” organization that is such a problem to Mexico and to the US. BTW, none of the non-Marxist countries sent representatives to this sham “inauguration.” But there was one foreign government that did: Francis the Marxist sent a representative of the Vatican to Maduro’s preposterous “inauguration.”
He’s just as bad as Ghadaffi Duck and we all saw what happened to him.
Gaddaffi was a tyrant, but he understood reality and improved his country.
Libya is a horrible mess after what Hillary and Obama did to it.
Mighty forgiving of you, and leaving all sorts of room for people to learn from their mistakes. Ahem.
I believe the opposition leader is also a socialist.
Thanks RoosterRedux. I'd prefer "Operation Maduro Piñata in the Town Square" though.
FYI..... Pentagon extends military security support along the U.S. border with Mexico until... September 30, 2019!
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