If we are not going to "run" Venezuela, what was the point of kidnapping Maduro and killing well over a hundred Venezuelans?

Given the new President is not significantly different from Maduro, do we expect them to work with the US? With oil companies?

If Venezuela does not collapse into internecine violence, will the oil companies go in? If so, how is that different from working with Maduro? What incentive will oil companies need to encourage them to go into Venezuela? Will that be tax payer money to support "development"? If so, how does America ensure the long term protection of said investment, i.e. ensuring what happened previously doesn't happen again?

If we are going to "run" Venezuela, what are the broad strokes of that arrangement? What will we be running? How?

What again was the point of kidnapping Maduro?

What again was the point of any of this?

It is ALMOST like President Piggy hasn't thought this out.

I am open to any concepts of a plan.

Rubio

"It's not running it. It's running policy."

"We want Venezuela to move in a certain direction, because not only do we think it's good for the people of Venezuela, it's in our national interest," he said.

Well, isn't that comforting.

If they don't do what we want, then what?

Isn't that ummm extortion?

[President Piggy] in an interview on Sunday issued a warning for Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodrguez.

"If she doesn't do what's right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro," [President Piggy] told The Atlantic a day after U.S. military forces captured the former leader.

Oh, ok, so there is the threat, said out loud

So, extortion it is

How about now they hold some honest elections for the people to decide who should be in charge.

#20 | Posted by MSgt a

Ask yourself why hasn't President Piggy even whispered at that?

Ask yourself why President Piggy specifically declined the use of the leader of the opposing party?

You won't ask yourself, cause you aren't very intelligent. That is a simple fact.

However, if we DID do that, that is pretty much what we did in Iraq.

There isn't a magic wand of get rid of Mudaro and install Muchado

Doesn't work like that

It is a transition

That transition immediately becomes messy

That transition would absolutely require US troops, then OOOOOOPPPPS I did it again, I played with your life, you got lost in the game, oooh baby baby

So, the alternative is work with the new president.

But ummm what is the point of that, she is as much a socialist as Mudaro.

OOOHHH I get it, threats of violence

Interesting political science experiment. Can a country control another country's actions with solely a fleet at it's shores

Never been done before (successfully)

Maybe somebody in the administration should have paid attention in history class

How much are we willing to spend on a permanent blockade of another country.

Now, that is an interesting question

But, really, this is all hypothetical, President Piggy hasn't communicated what his plans are

i suspect he doesn't have any

Kind of like knocking down the east wing of the WH without a plan or architect for his new ballroom

Thanks magat scum

I bought into the WMD lie. Guilty as charged. I was duped. I never called anyone who opposed the war a Saddam butt-buddy.

#31 | Posted by BellRinger

So, maybe, you should go to each and every Iraqi who lost a loved one to our war of aggression and beg their forgiveness.