Interesting timing, isn't it? Trump meets with Kim the same time Cohen meets with Congress.
Afa Venezuela, it reminds me of Granada, except that there the excuse for invasion/intervention was to save American lives. Venezuela, the casual whipping boy, is suddenly someplace we're concerned about. Let's face it. The reasons "we're" doing it is because 1) political currency; it's easy to say that we're fighting for democracy and against socialism --though Maduro is essentially an autocratic dictator much like the leaders Trump respects most, 2) there's oil them there hills, and with it, economic opportunities. Venezuela donated oil to poor families in the US at the height of Chavez's socialism and afterward.
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Yeah, there'll be a lot of talk about concern for the conditions of the poor in Venezuela. But, it's bullshit, and the more sincere the pleas of people like Pence, et.c, the more we can smell it. Maduro should go, but it's not clear that Venezuelans will benefit from being a puppet state. It'd be naive to think so. Remember the troubles there were getting aid to Puerto Rico? Shucks. Doesn't anybody remember the effects of our intervention in the governments of central America (i.e, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador; i.e., Malatrucha Salvadorena, or MS13) and the emigration from those countries because of conditions there?
Frankly, I'd rather let China spend the money and gain the influence. And what about the rest of S. America? If the situation is really that bad, on a humanitarian level, then Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina and Uruguay are right there.