I think we should invade them, put 100,000 troops there and fight an insurgency for the next 15 or 20 years. Because that's what we do. Oh, and let in tons of "refugees" who will somehow have the means to buy expensive condos in Miami. Seriously, why do we need to stick our hand in this hornet's nest?
In other news barely being covered India bombed Pakistan today. Venezuela will be child's play if things heat up between these two NUCLEAR powers who don't mind killing people by the hundreds of thousands. https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/india/india-pakistan-line-of-control-incursion-intl/index.html
Actually the era of positioning troops in a country after invading it to remove a ruler needs to end. The new policy should be we will come in and kill / arrest the dictator & all his close associates. If captured they will be put on public trial and executed quickly. Any troops supporting the dictator who shoot as U.S. troops will be eliminated on the battlefield. After the invasion the U.S. will establish the basic structure of a new government around the opposition and depart. No longer will we stay in a country for years dealing with any type of insurgency. If an "insurgency" involving supporters of the former dictator take over the country then we will do the same thing again.
Not in the least bit. The plan should be that we will be gone within two weeks of removing the dictator.
https://www.latimes.com/business/ho...arrido-abducted-venezuela-20190226-story.html Second TV journalist, Telemundo's Daniel Garrido, is abducted and detained in Venezuela A second television journalist working for a U.S. media outlet was abducted and detained for several hours Tuesday in Caracas, Venezuela. The correspondent, Daniel Garrido, was later released. Garrido is the Venezuela correspondent for Telemundo, the Spanish-language network owned by media giant NBCUniversal. Telemundo said Tuesday that Garrido was grabbed by unidentified gunmen and driven to an undisclosed location. He was held for about six hours. The incident followed the Venezuelan government’s detention of high-profile journalist Jorge Ramos and his Univision News camera crew for three hours Monday night. Ramos and his team arrived in Venezuela over the weekend, after securing an interview with embattled President Nicolas Maduro at the presidential palace. Midway through the interview, Maduro apparently objected to the interview tactics of Ramos, who is lead anchor for the Spanish-language network Univision.
The Venezuelan army can easily remove Maduro from power. Problem is they are too scared to even fight back. Soldiers crossed the borders and asked for asylum! They have guns and arms and should have escorted the food and medicines across the border. That would have been enough to draw the other soldiers to their side. If they fire on them, they have every right to shoot back!
Big mistake for Venezuela to have detained Jorge Ramos and threatened him. He was on Hannity, practically born-again and trashing socialism and Maduro and practically praising the lord for the United States. They must have roughed him up pretty bad for him to say something good about the U.S and to trash the lefties. It was actually sort of pitiful to watch him tearing up and thanking Hannity for speaking out for him when he was "feeling like he was all alone." As the old saying goes: "A conservative is often a liberal who was mugged the night before."
Jorge Ramos interview on FOX https://www.foxnews.com/world/univi...ls-hannity-why-venezuelas-maduro-detained-him