I really tried to ignore it all day. But will someone please explain to the bulging brains of the Executive Branch that real life does not work like chess or king of the hill? You don't win just by grabbing the other side's top dude -- and if you just pull a quick forcible exfiltration, the next in line isn't obliged to dance to your tune.
They may yet turn up the heat if they don't get what they want, but don't be surprised if "running Venezuela" proves to be a lot more difficult than it has been made to sound.
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1 year ago
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From the Associated Press: "Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not govern Venezuela day-to-day other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country..."
Curious if this statement is a reality-check or a back-pedal.
The problem is not so much in sending the message that we're willing to do a quick and efficient military operation against a foreign leadership- we do that on a pretty regular & bipartisan basis.
The question is are we willing to start something, and stick around and spend our wealth and blood until we get things finished- I don't think that we are.
All that Venezuela has to do is force us to commit to some form of a long term commitment, and they'll win in the end.
Make no mistake the people of Venezuela are celebrating the fall of Maduro
Yes, and? Don't be dim -- they can be glad he's gone and still not want to bend the knee to the U.S. Make no mistake, there's a whole lot of history there and it's not simple.
Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen of Greenland, on Monday January 5 as quoted in The Guardian, and referring to Trump:
"Enough is enough. No more pressure. No more innuendo. No more fantasies about annexation."
I guess it takes the leader of a tiny country (population 57,000) to speak truth to the world's biggest war machine and its failed leadership.
And all to grab some really dirty crude that will take years and billions of $ to get to a market where there is already lots of oil and the US is already a net exporter? Sounds like voodoo economics to me.
They appear to be rather drunk on Victory at the moment, and I fear that they'll do something really, really monumentally stupid as a followup. Or a couple of stupids.
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