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2019-01-25 Caribbean-Latin America
The risk of a catastrophic US intervention in Venezuela is real
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-25 02:30|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 Agree
Posted by Jim Cramer6666666 2019-01-25 03:26||   2019-01-25 03:26|| Front Page Top

#2 [Guardian] By declaring himself Venezuela’s president on Wednesday, Juan Guaidó has brought Venezuela to the edge of catastrophe

Note its from the neo-commie Guardian. Venezuela is already a catastrophe. Guaido is simply the symptom of the disaster created by the failed political philosophy of the Left.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-25 07:06||   2019-01-25 07:06|| Front Page Top

#3 But a US invasion feels like a real possibility.

Care to bet?
Posted by SteveS 2019-01-25 07:17||   2019-01-25 07:17|| Front Page Top

#4 "untold suffering"??? The Trotskyites at the Guardian somehow overlook the fact that Venezuela is now a nation functioning without a currency.
Posted by Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-01-25 08:09||   2019-01-25 08:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Boy, I never thought anything could make me defend Maduro, but here we are.

A US intervention will be utterly disastrous. For America as well as Venezuela. Iraq would have been better off under the tyrant Saddam, Syria under the tyrant Assad, and both were much much worse than Maduro.

No more interventions.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-01-25 08:18||   2019-01-25 08:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Herb, you're not defending Maduro by not wanting a US invasion. You just don't want the US military to intervene in Venezuela. Neither do I, bad idea. Unless the Chicoms or Russians move in.
Most likely Guaido is a socialist anyway.
Posted by jvalentour 2019-01-25 08:29||   2019-01-25 08:29|| Front Page Top

#7 If Canada and OAS has joined suit, Maduro is done. That's like the NFL firing its referees.

Who the crap said anything about intervention, armed intervention you present? For bug fuck sake mon, other than the last two years really the diet master has been encouraged by those in power in the USA. Where is Ambassador Spicoli?
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-01-25 09:49||   2019-01-25 09:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Who the crap said anything about intervention, armed intervention you present?
Posted by: swksvolFF

Did you bother to read the headline?
Posted by jvalentour 2019-01-25 10:01||   2019-01-25 10:01|| Front Page Top

#9 It's Al-Guardian
Posted by Frank G 2019-01-25 10:11||   2019-01-25 10:11|| Front Page Top

#10  to the edge of catastrophe
Since they already went over the edge into catastrophe does this mean they're now climbing back over the edge?
Posted by Glenmore 2019-01-25 11:39||   2019-01-25 11:39|| Front Page Top

#11  to the edge of catastrophe
Maybe climbing back over the edge? They were already over the edge going down.
Posted by Glenmore 2019-01-25 11:41||   2019-01-25 11:41|| Front Page Top

#12 What happens next is anyone’s guess. But a US invasion feels like a real possibility.

Doubt a full invasion is a real possibility. I can see some teams and advisers at most.

I can see Maduro playing up the invasion talk as it galvanizes his supporters and fence sitters.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-01-25 11:46||   2019-01-25 11:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Exactly. The people who seem concerned about an invasion are the fellow travelers of those who, if a flotilla of food aid arrived, will be like, 'Trump unloads diabetic, heavy gluten diet upon the Venezuelans.'

I would make clear that if anything happens to the embassy, the movie won't be called 13 Hours, but 13 Minutes and the score will be by Tchaikovsky.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-01-25 12:17||   2019-01-25 12:17|| Front Page Top

#14 The US is in a golden age of peace and prosperity thanks to President Trump. He's not going to fuck that up like his predecessors did.
Posted by Regular joe 2019-01-25 12:34||   2019-01-25 12:34|| Front Page Top

#15 I don't think Trump pulled the US out of the middle east only to get us involved in Venezuela. The suggestion is daft. Venezuela provided a wonderful reminder of the failures of socialism. Sorry for the Venezuelans that have to suffer through it.
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-01-25 14:20||   2019-01-25 14:20|| Front Page Top

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