Veterans Call on U.S. Troops to Resist Illegal Orders to Invade Venezuela [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

President Donald Trump has called on Venezuelan soldiers to disobey orders and join coup perpetrators headed by U.S.-backed opposition leader, Juan Guaidó. If they do not do this, President Trump threatened: "You will find no safe harbor, no easy exit and no way out. You will lose everything."

While President Trump speaks of supporting democracy in Venezuela and Latin America, the real purpose of the U.S. assault on the Venezuelan government is to fully open the vast Venezuelan oil reserves to U.S. and other Western oil corporations as well as to destroy progressive governments in Latin America that put their own peoples' needs above the profits of foreign corporations.

The Veterans For Peace Statement of Purpose states that, "we will work, with others both nationally and internationally:

1. To increase public awareness of the causes and costs of war
2. To restrain our governments from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations
3. To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons
4. To seek justice for veterans and victims of war
5. To abolish war as an instrument of national policy."

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https://www.veteransforpeace.org/our-work/position-statements/veterans-call-us-troops-resist-illegal-orders-invade-venezuela?fbclid=IwAR2kZik_fgo3LCJTuTMVHdDd8TvekeO4esOlaXxk1RqYWsUzD7B3P-XNFoY