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First, Im against US military and economic interventions in the internal affairs of other countries. If there is a manifest ethical crisis, for example a genocide, then intervention should be through international cooperation, not unilateral action.
That said, our policies with respect to Venezuela have been decades of economic sanctions and assorted interventions by our intelligence services in our efforts to destabilize and destroy the socialist government that has controlled that country for that time.
The felonious idiot in chief rescinding refugee status for Venezuelans, and then using these refugees as test cases for the gitmo concentration camps is a huge gift to the authoritarian Maduro regime.
WTAF are they thinking? Is anyone actually thinking? Are they just acting out like toddlers? Are these questions rhetorical?
Whyisthisstillclose
(494 posts)"new normal" are rhetorical. Not a lot of serious answers coming, just 99-0 votes for the likes of Marco Rubio.
Voltaire2
(15,377 posts)to choose Cuban refugees.
Autumn
(48,869 posts)Voltaire2
(15,377 posts)But why choose Venezuelans? The level of stupidity on display is staggering.
Comrade Citizen
(344 posts)Big oil is upset at losing control of the oil.
They will hurt all Venezuelans worldwide until they gain control of all of Venezuela's oil reserves, and they will continue to hurt Venezuelans out of spite for taking "their" oil.
Voltaire2
(15,377 posts)"Big oil is upset at losing control of the oil." - that was the interventionist policy rational that dominated our approach t Venezuela since the Chavez regime was elected.
MineralMan
(150,887 posts)Comrade Citizen
(344 posts)It has moved past pro/anti Maduro geopolitics.
