Trump proves again how removed from reasoned thought he is. Invade Venezuela?

[GatoGordo]

U.S. official: Trump pressed aides about Venezuela invasion
by Joshua Goodman
Associated Press

As a meeting in August 2017 in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Donald Trump turned to his top aides and asked an unsettling question: With a fast unraveling Venezuela threatening regional security, why can't 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. This account of the previously undisclosed conversation comes from a senior administration official familiar with what was said.

In an exchange that lasted around five minutes, 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, according to the official. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the discussions.

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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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-venezuela-invasion-20180703-story.html

Trump proves yet again that he thinks the world is a place that you see in the movies. I imagine that he thinks that a chopper with Chuck Norris and The Expendables are going to fly into Caracas, they are going to jump out with guns a-blazin' and are going to take back Venezuela for 'Merica!

America needs to do nothing in Venezuela. Maduro and his merry bunch of morons are doing everything possible to bring about the hasty end of Chavismo. Maduro doesn't need US help, as his total incompetence is doing all of the hard work.

[duforsure]

1. He will only get worse

By using national security as a way to do as he pleases, and he's setting it up so he will have absolute power , and bypass the kgop altogether, and do as HE pleases with his kangaroo courts set up to allow it. He is becoming an evil dictator before our very eyes. That's also the only ones he's aligning with now claiming the opposite, when everyone knows they're terrorists , and murderers. It'll all be about his government soon, and his Department of Trump Justice. Invading others is exactly what he wants to do to , to rob them then like putin's doing. Probably why they've floated out Crimea may be recognized by trump for putin. trump is by far the worse national security threat this country have ever had, and from putin's involvement.

[secondwind]

2. If Venezuela didn't have oil, he wouldn't give

a rat’s ass about it’s people. I wonder if Putin and Trump and the Saudis want to corner the market on oil.

[aka-chmeee]

3. Imagine the movie "Walker"

with trump taking Ed Harris' role as William Walker.

[gtar100]

4. It's one thing to bring down a government but more important

is the one that follows in its wake. I have friends in Venezuela. The last thing they need is for tRump to get involved in an already shitty situation.

[GatoGordo]

5. Right you are

Maduro would love nothing more than for his precious "Chavismo" to be rescued from the ash heap of history by military intervention.

Chavismo is an epic failure, and Trump doing anything more than yawning is only perpetuating the misery of Venezuelans. When he opened his pie-hole last year about Venezuela, that gave Maduro MONTHS of ammunition.