A simple question?
Do you approve of USA interference in Venezuelan Politics?
Starting with OBAMA, sanctions against Venezuela have caused extreme poverty there.
Venezuela is a Socialist Nation a/k/a Bolivarian Republic.
Maduro is elected in May 2018 with a 60% najority.
Does the USA have any right to cause poverty and chaos in Venezuela?
YES!
NO!
Other and please explain!
Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from giant “Little Americas” to small radar facilities. Britain, France and Russia, by contrast, have about 30 foreign bases combined.
I think the sanctions are too glittering a generalization to be an explanation of the poverty in Venezuela.
The sowing of the seeds of destruction did not happen when Obama started sanctioning Venezuela. They started when the socialist government of Venezuela wanted to make Venezuela self-sufficient, nationalized oil resources (and made practically all government revenue dependent on oil) and then later practically all the means of production including farms, and left them in the hands of incompetent and corrupt political loyalists. To say that our sanctions were the cause is purely a post-hoc rationalization. Or rather, if it were the straw that broke the camle's back, it is blaming that single straw rather than all the prior weight that was heaped atop the camel. Venezuela is a failed state and would have been a failed state with or without U.S. interference.
As for how we should behave towards Venezuela, it is difficult to say. I have no interest in engaging in military action against the Venezuelan people or carpet-bombing Caracas. But if it comes to outright civil war, I think it would be incumbent on the United States to support democratic revolutionaries. That is my thought, anyway.
A simple question?
Do you approve of USA interference in Venezuelan Politics?
Starting with OBAMA, sanctions against Venezuela have caused extreme poverty there.
Venezuela is a Socialist Nation a/k/a Bolivarian Republic.
Maduro is elected in May 2018 with a 60% najority.
Does the USA have any right to cause poverty and chaos in Venezuela?
YES!
NO!
Other and please explain!
As someone who aspires to pragmatic realism, I believe a delicate balance in world power currently exists with the United States Military as the most dominate force.
This quote from a more than 3 year old article gives you some idea of the gist of offshore American Military might. With little effort, you or I can find more current sources to emphasize my point.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321
IMO, the United States has Global responsibilities. I would hope our interference includes a determined effort to promote democratic ideals.
You know for one of those “fight the power man” dudes, you seem pretty supportive of a criminal, inept, uneducated, brutish dictator that lost an election in the legislature, then just created another one, that uses torture, intimidation, starvation, police and the military against his own citizens with reckless abandon.
Maduro elected with 60% of the popular vote of May 2018 with 47% participation, about the same participation as theUSA, to continue Chavez/BolivarianRepublic policies and Chavez was elected 7 times. A better democracy than the USA can claim. Note: Hillary received 3 millin more votes than Trump. What's that about Democracy?
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Maduro elected with 60% of the popular vote of May 2018 with 47% participation, about the same participation as theUSA, to continue Chavez/BolivarianRepublic policies and Chavez was elected 7 times. A better democracy than the USA can claim. Note: Hillary received 3 millin more votes than Trump. What's that about Democracy?
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And how to you address the fact that when he lost a majority to the opposition in the National Assembly he just created another one to do his bidding, arrested opposition leaders and has used torture and mass arrests to stifle dissent?
What’s that about democracy?
A simple question?
Do you approve of USA interference in Venezuelan Politics?
Starting with OBAMA, sanctions against Venezuela have caused extreme poverty there.
Venezuela is a Socialist Nation a/k/a Bolivarian Republic.
Maduro is elected in May 2018 with a 60% najority.
Does the USA have any right to cause poverty and chaos in Venezuela?
YES!
NO!
Other and please explain!
The Republicans lost the majority in the House, but you don't see any change at the executive level. Just a charade. Venezuelans voted for and elected Chavez 7 times to include his policis to develop a Bolivarian Republic and Maduro is elected, not a dictator, May 2018 with 60% of the popular vote to continue Chavez's policies. I repeat, the USA sanctions, imposted by Obama, have killed the one horse Venezuelan economy to create poverty for its' citizenry and that is/was the plan. We are causing poverty. You, me and Grandma. You sound proud of it.
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The US is not the cause of poverty and chaos in Venezuela.
Look to the Venezuelans for that.
Just a note, but a big one.
Everytime you read "DICTATOR" referring to Chavez or Maduro, you are reading false news by the MSM. Both are/were elected by substantial majorities. DICTATOR is the buzzword used by the MSM to slant a narrative/story. Anyone reading is being deceived. That's pretty simple and noteworhy.
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The post asked this.... "And how to you address the fact that when he lost a majority to the opposition in the National Assembly he just created another one to do his bidding, arrested opposition leaders and has used torture and mass arrests to stifle dissent?"
You appear to like dictators as long as they don't lean towards the US.
Hitler was elected.
Saddam Hussein was elected by substantial majorities.
As were dozens of others. https://www.conservapedia.com/List_of_dictators
A whole list of dictators many of whom were originally elected.
The USA sanctioned the only economic life source of the Venezuela economy and CITGO in the USA. You, Me, and Grandma have caused the current poverty, driven with those objective intentions, in Venezuela. USA specializes in destabilization i.e. Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Iraq, etc. It is undeniable. Swallow that turd!
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The House didn't get to vote Trump out after it was overturned.
Maduro is elected by 60% of the popular vote, with a 47% turnout, in May 2018. He's elected.
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That is an admission that Maduro is elected.
Everytime you refer to Maduro as a "dictator" you reveal a total submission to a false MSM/NeoCon narrative. Some would say "brainwashed," others braindead, but that's just semantics.
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How do you state that? The USA is not a democracy. We support dictators because it's easy for Corporate to do business with a dictator. Nobody outside the USA voted for the USA to interfere in Sovereign Internationalational politics. We are offended to think anyone Israel/ Russia/UK would interfere in US politics. Hypocrites much?\/
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