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If the Army Stands With Maduro, What Is Plan B?
Townhall.com ^ | January 29, 2019 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 01/29/2019 1:27:07 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/29/2019 1:27:07 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Let Maduro wither on the vine


2 posted on 01/29/2019 1:30:04 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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We need to develop a space deployed device that is individual human accurate and targetable .
Call it the Global Opposition Destroyer - G.O.D. for short ....


3 posted on 01/29/2019 1:32:19 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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Let the Army’s families starve then. Not my problem. Just keep their stupid commie voting asses south of here!


4 posted on 01/29/2019 1:33:24 PM PST by The Toll
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Give a Venezuelan a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Give a Venezuelan an automatic rifle, and he can kill the communist bastards starving his family and country.

Starving people easily become guerillas.


5 posted on 01/29/2019 1:34:54 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Kaslin

Sometime what happens is a member of the armed forces family member gets caught in cross fire and that member takes it upon himself to avenge that family member.


6 posted on 01/29/2019 1:35:16 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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Plan B is to let the Venezuelans get out of their own mess.
They repeatedly voted for socialism and having someone else save their bacon is no incentive for them to not to do it again.


7 posted on 01/29/2019 1:35:28 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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I’m on the side of America, Mike. If other nations are or are not free isn’t our problem

If Maduro is a problem for the USA with which we need to reckon , then it doesn’t matter what other nations think


8 posted on 01/29/2019 1:38:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I would argue that the current evidence is that the Venezuelan people did not actually vote for the socialists.

Like California, the elections were stolen


9 posted on 01/29/2019 1:39:17 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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[ Russia and China stood by Maduro, as did NATO ally Turkey, with President Erdogan phoning his support. Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba and Bolivia were also with Maduro.

Backing Guaido are Venezuela’s neighbors Ecuador, Brazil and Colombia, the U.S. and Canada, and the Organization of American States.

Britain, France, Germany and Spain have sent Maduro a diplomatic ultimatum: Agree in eight days to new elections or we back the 35-year-old Guaido, who, until this year, was an unknown. ]

We live in ... Interesting times ....


10 posted on 01/29/2019 1:39:17 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: bert

Hey, arm chair, Pat. It looks like we’ve got a choke hold on the money...For Plan B, that’s up to the people. Would be foolish for us to wade in for no reason. The people will not let Russians or Chinamen run their country.


11 posted on 01/29/2019 1:40:01 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: Kaslin

Buchanan has a short memory about popular revolts even when it seems the military/police are standing by a dictator.

Paraphrasing the news journalist in the final moments of the original “The Thing”, as he said to the world, “Look to Romania. Look to Romania”.

Mussolini and his whore.
Ceaucescu and his whore.

“Hang ‘em high”, twice, just to be sure!!


12 posted on 01/29/2019 1:40:57 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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"Pay the soldiers. The rest do not matter."

Only true if the common people are disarmed. The Venezuelan military are 123,000 soldiers in a country of 31 million. If there were a significant percentage of hostile armed citizens, the army would stay on their bases.

13 posted on 01/29/2019 1:42:37 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: bert

The last one was stolen. I have no opinion about the rest.


14 posted on 01/29/2019 1:43:15 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: The Toll

Chavez and Maduro are not alien invaders. They were, for the most part, chosen by Venezuelans themselves. Let Venezuelans solve it. And if civl war happens, even better. It will cure most of them of their love of socialism for a couple generations.

Plus, it helps having an off-broadway socialist shit showing playing somewhere every day. It might sway just enough low-info Americans who are interested in people like Bernie Sanders or AOC.


15 posted on 01/29/2019 1:44:52 PM PST by PGR88
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To: nikos1121

It would seem that with Russian and Chinese money being injected, we do not actually have a chokehold on the money.

The telling action is going to be the arrest of Guido.


16 posted on 01/29/2019 1:46:00 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: Kaslin

A lousy article Pat.


17 posted on 01/29/2019 1:46:13 PM PST by Fungi
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To: bert

I say be patient.


18 posted on 01/29/2019 1:47:02 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: Kaslin
Are we inviting a civil war in Venezuela? Should the shooting start in Caracas, what do we do then?

Probably sit it out and bide our time. - Tom

19 posted on 01/29/2019 1:49:38 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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Hugo Chavez stole a few of those elections prior to his death. There is no reason to believe Maduro didn’t steal his.


20 posted on 01/29/2019 1:54:20 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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