Yeah, OK, Maduro is an asshole dictator who has let a country blessed with some of the world’s best geography go down the path of ruin. Venezuela should have been, and indeed once was, probably the best country in South America to live in. It is now a crime-infested near social(ist) anarchy whose regime’s bulwark of support was well-described in a newspaper article noting that Maduro has cleverly placed a network of powerful cronies around the country. Their positions are secure only as long as Maduro’s is. Their populace as a whole would not mourn their loss.
But as with Iraq, an invasion by Anglo Yanquis would be directed by an administration of corrupt ham-fisted Republican business execs who care nothing about the people they are attacking. The business interests who are no doubt licking their chops at the prospect of an invasion of Venezuela are after the natural resources, not the adoration of the people of Venezuela. Maybe this time, all the refineries for the Maracaibo oil will be built right there in Venezuela. Their oil is heavy in sulfur, and what Republican wants to be responsible for fouling up the air in Mikey Johnson’s back yard, after all?
One personal ultimate irony for me is that our newest parody video on Trump shows him bragging that he ended wars, where Biden “started wars because he was stupid.” How fitting would THAT be if Trump were to start Iraq II within ten days of that video coming out?
But there are no “WMD” fictions this time around, and if the only justification the Republicans are offering this time is that they are ridding a country of an evil, egotistical power-hungry leader, dangerous to neighboring countries, incapable of providing his own country with benevolent, competent leadership, well, hell, the Republicans just delivered a perfect reason why Venezuela should invade the USA instead.
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