Venezuela...

[Bipo]

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I agree, but I don’t think it’s possible to just let it run its course right now. I think you have to tent the house so the termites die first.

Oh noes! Did you just dehumanize these people by comparing a bunch of Commie scumbags to vermin?

 

[Cotton]

What did you say earlier? “It didn’t have jack shit to do with oil”, or did you forget already?

He was talking about funding our administration of the country. Basically relaying that the American taxpayer would not have to foot the bill.

 

[Bipo]

 

[Bipo]

 

[bbgun]

We're potentially getting some oil out of this? Good. It's the least they can do for us deposing a dictator.

 

[Genghis Khan]

"Open to meeting with" versus "admires" is about a million miles difference. Typical disingenuous bullshit from Democrats.

And of course once Biden got into office he did jack squat about Maduro.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Urrutia would probably be the guy I would think.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

And of course once Biden got into office he did jack squat about Maduro.

Biden (and/or the people actually running things for him) are all for guys like Maduro and Lula.

 

[bbgun]

 

[Chocolate Lab]

 

[Irving Cowboy]

the biggest leaker is his SecDef

 

[Irving Cowboy]

He was talking about funding our administration of the country. Basically relaying that the American taxpayer would not have to foot the bill.

No he wasn’t. Stop rationalizing his bullshit.

 

[Smitty]

Sounds like he’s saying he is gonna open up Venezuela for business, not steal it.

In which case, why do we need to be upset?

And again, we have footed the bill for so much of the world’s problems over the decades that I’m not gonna shed a tear if we profit a bit.

The concerning thing is that there is a long history of these things either backfiring or dragging us into expensive conflict. To date, Trump has been excellent - better than any President in generations - at keeping us out of conflict. This is a fact. He does deserve the Nobel peace Prize if that idiot Obama got one.

This is unsettling to me but at least the snatch and grab nature seems designed not to lead to an Afghanistan. Not sure who will be taking over down there next.

 

[bbgun]

 

[1bigfan13]

What did you say earlier? “It didn’t have jack shit to do with oil”, or did you forget already?

It's definitely about the oil. Anyone claiming otherwise is being willfully obtuse.

There are other leaders around the world just as bad as Maduro. Several of them in Africa. But for some strange reason Trump shows no interests in "spreading democracy" to those countries.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

 

[NoDak]

It's definitely about the oil. Anyone claiming otherwise is being willfully obtuse.

There are other leaders around the world just as bad as Maduro. Several of them in Africa. But for some strange reason Trump shows no interests in "spreading democracy" those countries.

Are Russia, China, Iran, etc... trying to get a foothold in those countries?

 

[1bigfan13]

Are Russia, China, Iran, etc... trying to get a foothold in those countries?

Yes. Russia and China are chest deep in Africa.

 

[Cujo]

Wow.

That’s how you get shit done.