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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Proposed Invading Venezuela
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Associated Press: As a meeting last August in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Trump turned to his top aides and asked an unsettling question: With a fast unraveling Venezuela threatening regional security, why cant the U.S. just simply invade the troubled country?
The suggestion stunned those present at the meeting, including U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and national security adviser H.R. McMaster, both of whom have since left the administration McMaster and others took turns explaining to Trump how military action could backfire and risk losing hard-won support among Latin American governments to punish President Nicolas Maduro for taking Venezuela down the path of dictatorship.
But Trump pushed back. Although he gave no indication he was about to order up military plans, he pointed to what he considered past cases of successful gunboat diplomacy in the region, according to the official, like the invasions of Panama and Grenada in the 1980s.
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Trump Proposed Invading Venezuela (Original Post)
applegrove
Jul 2018
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roamer65
(36,745 posts)1. Not with a President Obrador.
Mexico would then become the vehicle for the invasion of the US.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)2. Oil stealing no doubt.....
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)3. Might as well have...everything else has happened to them.
What a mess. If we don't get control of our political situation, we'll be going down the same road before it's all said and done.
Just sayin'.
Turbineguy
(37,320 posts)4. Venezuela needs help.
But not from trump.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)5. yes they do but US only makes matter worse when it invades and 'help'
way to destabilize the world like we did in middle east under bush.
Turbineguy
(37,320 posts)9. The Europeans.
The Dutch might work. Maduro would have to announce an exit strategy.
no_hypocrisy
(46,083 posts)6. Trump treats every conquest like getting moving on distressed properties.
He wouldn't invade Venezuela if there weren't an opportunity offered b/c of internal chaos.
trof
(54,256 posts)7. It's a safe bet that Donnie Two-Scoops can't even SPELL Venezuela, let alone find it on a map.
hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)8. Okay, who told him about the invasions of Panama and Grenada?
Nevermind.
moondust
(19,972 posts)10. Pruitt's & Drumpf's big oil puppeteers
DEMAND CONTROL OF ALL THAT FUCKING OIL AND THEY MEAN RIGHT NOW BEFORE ANYBODY CAN STOP THEM!!!!
3_Limes
(363 posts)11. Doesn't Rosneft have significant interests in Venesuala's oil reserves?
I recall hearing something about that, but I can't recall all the details.
It would explain a lot though, if that's the case.