Being Christian doesn’t make someone a Saint.
Why are you belaboring the point?
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Your last “explanation” is why quite often things that NEED done are not. Sometimes the right thing to do isn’t always the “popular” thing to do. Those times it takes balls to do what needs done, you say you are a business owner, so I assume there have been tines when you had to do something that your employees didn’t like, but had to be done.
I REALLY hate to say this, but, this is one of those times. Maduro had ignored their election and refused to step down, he was trafficking in drugs and weapons, was breaking sanctions by selling oil to China, Russia, and who knows who else, was literally meeting with Chinese officials that weekend, intelligence was saying China and possibly Russia were in the process of building bases in the country. Any one of those reasons were enough to take him into custody on the indictments we had.
Trump did what was necessary by picking him up, regardless of the possible political downsides.
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“cough” Vietnam…started by JFK/LBJ ended by Nixon.
Those cubans were protecting a narco-terrorist and a dictator who refused to step down when he lost the last election. One SHOULD be asking why he had a cuban security force guarding him…
Frankly it is pathetic and frankly frightening that people such as yourself are having such heartache over this thug being taken into custody to face the charges he has been accused of. ESPECIALLY when Venezuelans themselves both here in the US and in Venezuela itself are cheering the fact he is no longer in power. Maybe you should take a moment and listen to them, there is a reason they are cheering.
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Name one.
Also…
Trump said he will control/run the country until a new Democratic Gov. is in place there.
Why speculate in advance ? Why not wait and see?
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He can Pay the reward to CIA.
They monitored Maduro’s whereabouts.
no reason to dig. i am correct.
Allan
Accepting the federal government killing of people without charges or conviction as ‘partisan politics’ is incredibly un-American.
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Wow. That’s ■■■■■■■ crazy.
Who actually receives teh oil? Who profits from it?
How?
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This could end well for everyone if it’s played correctly. But I don’t think it is the only path to better days. We’ll see.
I’m deeply troubled by the idea that we are now just taking their oil. How about you?
Interesting post by one of the UKs most respected and trusted journalists.
Yeah umm . . .
I am a conservative, but I am not a Trump fan.
I do not have a lot of confidence this will be played correctly.
EX: What if the new regime decides to hurry up and bring in a major Chinese or Russian presence? (Hurrying because they need an anti-US ally.)
It is a long way from Russia or China. Neither has the power projection ability to sustain a major military presence in our hemisphere.
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Well you just scuttled the Administration’s attempted reasoning for seizing Greenland then…
Yeah, that’s definitely a concern, and already playing out, as Russia is escorting that tanker we were chasing.
Long term, the idea that a super power can just demand a country give them oil is a dangerous precedent.
And as a conservative, I am sure you are troubled by the notion of our federal government taking control of that oil and doling out the profits as it sees fit to both VZ and the US.
Well I doubt they could protect it in a prolonged war but
that’s not what I was trying to say.
Since the Chinese can control the ports at each end of the Panama canal,
they probably have whatever it takes to sign a sweetheart oil deal if Venezuela offers one.
China definitely does.
Look at a map of the North Atlantic and actually give the location of Russia v Greenland some thought. Then give some thought to past and current naval and air patrols from Russia, along with the patrol range of the Russian Navy and Air Force. Neither has the logistics to sustain a force their either, but Russia does have the ability conduct operations from Russian Soil in Greenland.
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Eisenhower (and Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon etc.)
had a method for doing that.
In a truly rotten economy there is usally some power group eager to stage a coup and all they need is some money and the promise of recognition. (Eisenhower for sure viewed coups as the peaceful humatnitarian alternative to war.)
Butin those cases, “Who will take charge next” and “How much do we need to pay them to stay on our side” were usually answered first. They only unkonwn in such cases was “How much blowback will come to the US if the new guy turns out to be a total blood-sucking demon?”
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