All Eyes On Venezuela As Socialism Fails Again

President Nicolas Maduro dictatorship is showing signs of failure.
The people of Venezuela want freedom from oppression.

President Trump has recognized the subjugation of the Venezuelan people and American credibility to the violent authoritarianism of Nicolás Maduro. He has responded by pledging the calibrated application of American power to the accession of interim Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó.

Trump has been magnificent in guiding the movement to freedom.
Do you agree?
Or are you in support of tyranny?

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4meAndyou · F Best Comment

Pompeo said they practically had Maduro on the plane to fly him out of there but the Russians and the Chinese talked him out of leaving.

One of the commentators,(A Colonel in the US Army),to whom I was listening last night in a discussion of Venezuela pointed out that Maduro's army are the ones moving the drugs, like poisonous fentanyl, from China up to Mexico, to the drug lords there, and that they are making a huge amount of money doing it, and that Maduro's army is not going to stop doing that no matter who is in charge of Venezuela.

It's pretty obvious that socialism is not the issue here, although it is also obvious that Maduro's government is allowing his own people to starve.

The real issue is that Russia, China, and Cuba are using drugs as a weapon in their secret war against the American people. They have gained a foothold in Venezuela, pumping drugs up the pipeline to the Mexican drug lords. It is not American sympathy for the starving Venezuelan people that has motivated us to involve ourselves, although we also really do sympathize.

Maduro and his army are like the Godfather and the Mafia. They are just criminals who have taken over an entire country for their own enrichment. And Russia, China, and Cuba are at war with us in a quiet way, setting up the long game.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@4meAndyou Well that is a creative work of fiction. The CIA has been moving tons of drugs(literally) for decades on private and USAF aircraft for decades so a US military officer calling the Venezuelan government drug dealers is almost parody. If it was true at best it would be a war between the US cartel and a Venezuelan cartel that seems to suddenly exist now.

4meAndyou · F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow You are entitled to your opinion, of course.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@4meAndyou Actually it is more than opinion. I made a statement backed by well documented ivestigative journalism over decades and court finds. You have a statement from a PR officer.

4meAndyou · F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Then you know that the reason the CIA launched that operation was to gain a mole inside the operations of a drug lord whom they were trying to take down.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@4meAndyou The US Army also serves as effectively narco guerrillas for the largest heroin cartel in Europe in Kosovo and protects their shipments of opium in Afghanistan.

4meAndyou · F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I don't know if the argument "you are dirty therefore it is okay for your enemies to be dirty" is really a valid one.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@4meAndyou That is not the point. We know conclusively the US are drug dealers. The only "evidence" the Venezuelan government is comes from a public statement by a PR officer with every incentive to saw anything to justify US meddling.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@4meAndyou I heard much the same things.
Thank you for an informative post!

That's a rare commodity these days!

Budwick · 70-79, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Do you have concerns for your addiction?

Budwick · 70-79, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow [quote]ivestigative journalism [/quote]

Budwick · 70-79, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow [quote]US meddling.
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What meddling?

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Budwick I guess you were in. A coma from the 70s to the 90s.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Budwick The entire situation in Venezuela is manufactured in the US. The only thing left still made in the USA.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow And where have you been for the last decade, Son?

Investigative journalism, in fact journalism itself has evaporated. "Journalists" can't be trusted.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Well, that sounds like a good plot for your new fiction novel!

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Budwick Just because the US journalism industry has resorted to fiction writing does not mean it was always so and most of the stuff about drug running by the US military was proven conclusively repeated 30 years ago. And the bit about Kosovo comes from European sources that still value journalism. The president of Kosovo is the biggest heroine dealer in Europe and runs the biggest illegal brothel in Europe in Macedonia where he trafficks girls from all over eastern Europe. But because he paved the way for the creation of Camp Bond Steel he gets a blanket pass on everything and the US soldiers there provide defacto protection. The US claims to be trying to do good things in Afghanistan but yet somehow opium production went up 95% after the US intervention which is the raw material supply for the mobster in Kosovo but I am sure that is coincidence. (sarcasm here).

4meAndyou · F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow More of the "I know you are but what am I?" style of argument. Throwing dirt doesn't make Venezuela better.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@4meAndyou On what planet is proving an argument with facts and evidence throwing dirt? That seems to be your department. You can't dispute what I am saying so you sling mud. And you still have never provided a single shred of evidence to support your slander of Venezuela.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Blah, blah ,blah.

Venezuela and news media corruption are happening now.

There is a difference between then and now.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Budwick Yeah because this all started five minutes ago. That is why you and your ilk will never understand this and other issues and why you can be conned into believing anything. You think everything starts and ends with a 10 minute soundbite on Fox.