Trump says sending military to Venezuela 'an option': CBS
reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-tru...Posted Feb 3, 2019, 2:25 PM UTC
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Imagine that a draft dodger sending young Americans to war to die as a distraction from his treasonous actions.
I have another option lets impeach Trump instead.
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God I hope not, if the people want to fight to overthrow their government, I am fine supporting them diplomatically. But we shouldn't support militarily unless Maduro starts going all death squads on his own people.
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...He is already.
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unless Maduro starts going all death squads on his own people.
You are late to the party man...
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So why isnt ge sending troops to Turkey or any of the other violent dictators then? I bet it's because they dont have oil.
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The total dead in these accounts may be around 500-750. If the US brings in troops and it turns into another Syria, millions could be killed and many more millions displaced forever.
Diplomacy is possible but not with blood thirsty Bolton and murderous Abrams on the job.
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I mean, to say Syria is more peaceful, seems a bit hyperbolic.
I'm sure it's difficult for the poor there, but sending in troops will not only make getting food harder, but will make it much likelier major destruction will occur.
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If we cared about starvation, we would be doing more to stop it. We don't just get to choose to only care about starvation in leftist countries, but for some reason, we do.
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Didn’t he just tweet something about respecting borders?
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As anyone knows, a core tenant of nationalism is engaging in pointless foreign wars...
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Like Syria?
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So your using trumps surrender in Syria to support invading Venezuela?
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"Respect our borders but fuck anyone else's"
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With all that oil Venezuela is in serious trouble
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Lol Venezuela has more oil than Canada look it up if you don't believe
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"Probably"- No based on science and not opinion Venezuela has more oil then Canada, both Saudi Arabia and Venezuela are the only countries with more oil than Canada. Also with one of the worst economic collapses in the World anybody who sneaks their way in there right now stands to profit unlike anything we've ever seen in the oil industry. With costs at a minimum(you could pay Venezuela n works almost nothing) every corrupt oil tycoon in the world right now knows that and wants a slice of that sweet Venezuelan oil pie...
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You think Trump actually understands that much nuance?
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No but his corrupt cronies do
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Invade a country for it's oil?
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And there it is. Bigger Dumber Bush Lite.
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Bush lite none of the taste all of the calories
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Donnie Draftdodger is going to send kids off to die.
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And when they do, tell their family that “he knew what he signed up for”.
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I thought America was getting out of being the policeman of the world?
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Yeah, what happened to ''America first''?
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"Socialism"
"Dictator"
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I thought Drumpf was going to stop us getting involved in stupid wars. Yes, Maduro is ruining his country, but there are a lot of other nations being ruined by their leaders. Like right here in the good old US of A.
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Trump pulls troops from Syria just to send them to Venezuela. He's just itchin to start another war, isn't he? I mean, he's shit talking Iran too.
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Well he’d better hope Maduro doesn’t put some pieces of steel in the ground to stop us from getting in
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Sending eight penguins and a ham sandwich to Botswana is also an option, but why?
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I guess foreign wars are OK with Trump if there's oil to privatize steal.
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Bolton said the end goal is overthrowing the government and taking their oil. Trump is willing to use the military to do so. The US is actively involved in ANOTHER Latin American coup. One of the reasons why people are fleeing Latin America is because previous US lead coups have destroyed these countries
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This is so true when I spent time in El Salvador last year this couldn't have been more apparent
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and this is the natural result of everyone just blindly siding with the war machine (most Democrats included). There are dozens of nations around the world with far worse elections than Venezuela, and far worse economic conditions (even if they're not suffering economic sanctions by the US). The US supports 3/4's of the world's dictatorships, but Venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves, and that is precisely what the Trump regime wants.
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Let’s be clear on the history before we throw out ‘both sides!’
In 2003 there were 2 types of people with an opinion on Iraq. Those who thought the intelligence was a sham to start a foreign conflict, and those that supported the President’s march to war.
On this one, I’d be shocked if Trump takes his case to the UN. If we attempt a military intervention, it’s going to be without the support of international resolutions and without NATO. It’s also perfectly clear public opinion polling will have 0 influence unless its reported on Fox.
And the first 2 should genuinely concern Americans, even if they believe military intervention is needed.
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No, actually, it's not.
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I never thought of that thing that was the plan all along.
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Everything is always an option for him. He says this literally every time.
It's a combination of not knowing wtf is going on and what he thinks are "tough guy negotiating tactics"
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Which would be a disaster, with Russia snd China backing Maduro.
But..eh..what could go wrong?? /s
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So we couldn't send aide to Puerto rico post hurricane to help citizens out because it's an island surrounded by water but he want to send troop into a future quagmire to mess with something that will sort its self out, they have a new leader with public support we do not need to g back into messin around with south American countries again
Venezuela had them oils
Why are the dinosaurs in our government obsessed with acquiring all the fossil fuels?
They must feed on their dinosaur children
Got to keep them prices down and the people employed somehow.
What are you talking about? They sent 17,000 troops to Puerto Rico.
Aid and troops are not equivalent for every situation.
Because every situation is different.