August 2017: Trump said: "I’m not going to rule out a military option.... Venezuela is a mess. We have many options for Venezuela, including a possible military option if necessary."
March 2018: When anti-Trumpers were interpreting Trump's handshake with baseball hero Jose Altuve, I wrote: "I don't know if Altuve talks about politics, but I don't think he's even an American citizen. He's Venezuelan. If I were Venzuelan, I'd be most worried about Venezuela, and looking at Trump, I'd be thinking, is there some way he can help Venezuela?, or, if I was inclined to the hostility anti-Trumpers are seeing in his face — Why hasn't President Trump done something yet about Venezuela?"
February 2019: When Trump was pleading with the Venezuelan military to support Juan Guaido, I wrote: "I was surprised that on the channel I was watching — Fox News — the analysis after the speech was about the 2020 presidential campaign.... People in Venezuela are suffering. They're starving. We need to help. I thought Trump was trying to get something done, but the news folk rush to talk about the damned campaign, as if that's what sophisticated, savvy people do. I found it offensive."
April 2019: Quoting a Swedish journalist in Venezuela: "Two months have passed since I got here and in that time, the possibility of an American intervention in Venezuela has been on everyone’s mind. President Donald Trump has generously sprinkled his speeches with heavy innuendo to that effect, including boasts about being ready to take on the Russians, but shows little sign of actually following through.
The Venezuelan people themselves are divided on the issue; some fear that American help to overthrow Maduro will end up becoming a permanent American presence in the country and a co-dependent relationship that doesn’t come close to the ideals they’ve fought for over the past two decades.... For the U.S. to intervene now would mean a conflict between Trump and Putin, something Maduro surely is counting on Trump wanting to avoid...."
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People blaming "Zionists" for the fall of a Communist dictator is hilariously crazy. Where do they get this shit? And I just found out. Candace Owens!
Yes. Less so now but those who lament why we don’t have better candidates, here’s the reason: the bad ones are too successful…
I heard John Bolton read from his book yesterday where he claims that Trump told him that he considered Venezuela as part of the US or owned by the US.
Bolton should be jailed for writing that book. What a weasel.
Speaking of ownership, the Netherlands should start negotiations to sell us Greenland.
Correction. Denmark owns Greenland. For now.
It was easy for msm to hide the humanitarian crisis there in the name of political advantage. Will any of them go there to tell the horror stories or will they continue to whine about having to be at mar-a-lago?
What duty do we have to help the people of a completely failed state - a failed state in every possible way? Do we have an obligation to respect international norms when dealing with a criminal gamg running a county by murder, that thrmselves respect no national norms?
The Trump I administration could never have pulled off this gambit. It was polluted with too many spies and traitors, including the vice president, the secretary of defense, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
So it would seem from these old posts that Trump didn’t intervene back then because of Putin. What changed? Biden’s support for Ukraine diminished Putin on the world stage.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/01/what_a_way_to_start_2026.html
The stupid russian maskirovna as well as the need to mob up islamic state was the obstacles
Instead he had fantoms of afghan bounties and other trash
If even 1 US soldier was killed we would be having a very different conversation now. Trump is a very lucky man. God must love him.
Like the raid into northern yemen at the start of the term to go after aqap chief
The Venezuelan rump VP just blamed the attack and arrest of his boss on "Zionists" thus echoing the looniest fringe nutters on here.
Perfect. Just *chef's kiss* perfect.
Since many Jewish Congresscritters are the harshest critics of Trump's move I look forward to how this helps the theories (using that term very loosely) of the all-encompassing Zionologist conspiracy theories.
Operational secrecy is why no one died, Uhr. The neocons and leftists would be delighted if we lost personnel although they would pretend to grief or more likely faux righteous anger. Whichever path it would be performative not real. We've been educated well in how they react to casualties in the past year.
Great!
This administration cut USAID by $54 billion which was about 90% of the foreign aid budget. Researchers estimate that over 14 million preventable deaths could occur by 2030.
This is not a President who cares about humanitarian issues or the Venezuelan people.
My Venezuelan exile pals in Dallas have been praying for this kind of intervention for years. Only weeks ago, one was remarking to me that nothing short of physical force would ever dislodge maduro.
I'm not sure why some Venezuelans are wildly celebrating all of this.
If a movement of the people had successfully toppled Maduro and his regime, and subsequently forced free and fair elections, that would probably be something to celebrate. Instead, the destiny of Venezuela is now in the hands of a foreign country, whose intentions are (to put it mildly) questionable.
The left’s thorny relationship with Venezuela | International | EL PAÍS English https://share.google/Sro892Y7yt9cu0Idq
"Dunham said...
This administration cut USAID by $54 billion which was about 90% of the foreign aid budget. Researchers estimate that over 14 million preventable deaths could occur by 2030.
This is not a President who cares about humanitarian issues or the Venezuelan people."
What researchers Dunham?
The ones paid by usaid
"...I'm not sure why some Venezuelans are wildly celebrating ..."
Yes. We know, and have pointed it out countless times, Dr. Clueless.
Welcome to your permanent American presence in the country and a co-dependent relationship. May it, nonetheless, provide you with a stable society in which there is work and economic growth. Like no one has ever seen before.
steve uhr said...
If even 1 US soldier was killed we would be having a very different conversation now. Trump is a very lucky man. God must love him.
The easy part is over.
As a Jew I guess this is as good a place as any to come clean and admit: I arranged the attack and overthrow of Maduro. It was me. Candace figured it out.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Don't you just admire leftist's incredible ability to strike revolutionary poses while mouthing ultra-conventional phrases like "rule of law" and simultaneously being 100% reactionary to every single thing Trump does? That ability to inhabit a dichotomous space between "international law" (there truly is no such thing) and chaos while pointing accusatory fingers at the only president in my life who scrupulously follows our Constitutional order is truly impressive, but alas highly indicative of widespread mental illness on the left.
Sad!
Sunny
@sunnyright
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"Stop killing the narcoterrorists to stop them, you're supposed to arrest and prosecute them"
*arrests and prosecutes narcoterrorist leader*
"No not like that"
Let us confront an obvious question.
To set up and run any kind of government in Venezuela will cost the US billions.
In the longer term the US may be able to fund that with profits from oil extraction. But that won't work in the short term.
So are Congress going to approve the spending? Are the oil companies going to put the money up front? How will the bond markets react to all this additional spending?
Off topic Dumbham, get bent.
Looks like Xiden and Temu boarder czar Harris owe Trump a lot of money:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/world/americas/biden-bounty-nicolas-maduro.html
The issue is never the thing the revolution is
Like o brien reminded winston smith
I'm not sure why some Venezuelans are wildly celebrating all of this.
Why don't you find a Venezuelan and ask? Or just listen. It's not subtle. Chavez and Maduro turned their country into a cut-rate narco-state version of Cuba.
Does anyone remember all of the hue and cry raised by the left about the arrest and extradition in 2022 of the former President of Honduras by the Biden Administration? The guy that Trump pardoned? Me neither.
Trump will be judged this year on tangible results on cost of living. Foreign exploits will give the impression he has run out of domestic policy ideas.
Trump has “no problem” putting boots on the ground What a brave man.
Kak: “ If a movement of the people had successfully toppled Maduro and his regime, and subsequently forced free and fair elections, that would probably be something to celebrate. “
Edmundo Gonzalez was elected president of Venezuela in 2024 by 70% of the vote.
Here's a Venezuelan who can explain this to Kaki.
Temujin:
We knew it was you all along.
BTW, nice work!
Left Bank of the Charles said...
So it would seem from these old posts that Trump didn’t intervene back then because of Putin. What changed? Biden’s support for Ukraine diminished Putin on the world stage.
The leftist coming to this conclusion can't be explained by stupidity. They actually had to walk through several logical fallacies and inconsistencies to get to this.
This can only be explained by evil.
Donald the Dove
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
steve uhr said...
Trump has “no problem” putting boots on the ground What a brave man.
If the Army is allowed to do its job they would love to go.
If Trump lets me shoot marxists I would think about signing up again.
Kakistocracy said...
Let us confront an obvious question.
To set up and run any kind of government in Venezuela will cost the US billions.
In the longer term the US may be able to fund that with profits from oil extraction. But that won't work in the short term.
So are Congress going to approve the spending? Are the oil companies going to put the money up front? How will the bond markets react to all this additional spending?
If Trump allows oil companies access to Venezuelan oil they will pay for everything.
Retards like you are used to Dick Cheney. That is why you adopted him as one of your own.
The mistake we made in Iraq was not paying for the war and the Iraqi government with oil profits. That and Bush wouldn't let us actually kill the enemies because he didn't want the war to end. Well Cheney didn't want the war to end.
Cheney was a dishonest scumbag just like you people are.
Ronald J. Ward said...
steve uhr said...
If even 1 US soldier was killed we would be having a very different conversation now. Trump is a very lucky man. God must love him.
The easy part is over.
They sent in those who must not be named.
You don't know if anyone died or not. You will never know what actually happened.
Trump should have someone leak that someone actually died on the mission just to fuck with you turds.
“ So are Congress going to approve the spending?”
We watched Biden spend billions if not trillions of dollars over the last four years without anyone having the slightest clue who approved it or where it went. Glad to see Kak concerned about this at last.
Trump talking on TV is describing a victory that only exists on TV (and in Trump's head).
The Venezuela operation occurred, but the control he claims did not.
There is no occupation
There is no U.S. ownership of oil
Trump talks in the language of assets and domination because that is how he measures success: spectacle, submission, how it looks on TV. He speaks as if he owns Venezuela, when Venezuela is still a sovereign state, with an ex President. Talk of billions of oil revenue is only talk.
The system underneath Trump constrained him and offered him what he wants. Rubio is playing his boss, and the military have got what they want, and avoided what they don't want -- another Iraq. The Republican base won't put up with an occupation, but are okay with brutal application of force.
Trump got optics --the system imposed limits.
This isn’t confusion or spin. It’s containment. Trump narrates the outcome he expected, not the one that occurred. He talks like an autocrat. The system acted like a scalpel.
Trump and Hegseth are little boys playing on the beach with their toy soldiers. Most of the rest of the world knows that this is all a show, a performance for the cameras.To satisfy the narcissistic tendencies of the occupant of the White House. No more real than a Disney remake.
X
vittorio@IterIntellectus
"Most political issues nowadays can be explained by understanding that American leftists don't have positions, they have oppositions.
their entire belief system is defined by negation of whatever the right supports.
this is why portland chants “free maduro” while actual venezuelans celebrate in the streets. "
Achillies, you misunderstood. The easy part is over.
Now Trump’s talking boots on the ground to assist in the rich man’s oil heist.
Kak - CA democrats - under Chief Hairgel(D) - just banned free and fair elections by banning voter ID.
Portland celebrates anarchistic tyranny
Post euphoria, Venezuelans have to deal with Chinese, Cuban, Russian and Iranian actors, the narco distribution, the military armed to the teeth, and the undoing of a quarter century of expropriation, imprisonment, torture, murder, and corruption. Better problems than a few days ago, but big damn problems.
Ron Ward -
We note you don't give a damn about the economic ruin and destruction of a nation by a corrupt election stealing tyrant narco-terrorist.
the oppressed people of Venezuela mean nothing to you.
You prefer they stay oppressed.
Got it.
’The easy part is over.’
Please stop pouting.
We don't do enough humanitarian house-cleaning.
Lets re-visit Captain Pete Buttigeg(D) - and his strongly worded words. ...and how it was only bullshit.
Why is it that all the fakery on the left ---> if you peel back the funding - it's dark commie money.
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@WallStreetApes
EXPOSED 🚨 The “Hands Off Venezuela” protest taking place in New York City supporting Nicolas Maduro is being organized by ‘The People’s Forum’
The People’s Forum is a NGO that has received over $20 million dollars from a billionaire who lives in China with ties to the CCP
The NGOs primary funding over $20 million Neville Roy Singham
- Singham’s residence in Shanghai.
- His business ties are to the CCP
- He attends CCP-related events
- He funds media outlets echoing Chinese state narratives"
Ronald J. Ward said...
No, the easy part is going to be finding people who want to get paid 200-500k per year to fix oil rigs and oil companies that want to pay them to pump the oil.
If the Army is allowed to kill the fucks like you that want Venezuela to be a marxist shithole it wont take that many troops to occupy the place.
We are already paying troops to be in the military. The Navy is already there.
We had goodwill in Iraq when I started. It only turned into a shit show when we started doing the COIN bullshit instead of killing Al Qaeda. Same with Afghanistan. As soon as we stopped killing them and Obama forced us to catch and release Afghanistan went to shit.
The key is correctly assessing who the problem is and dealing with them.
Hopefully Trump doesn't go soft and starts working on our home grown marxist problem.
Distractions.
While Trump is wisely playing the long game with his plan to get Americans to build stuff again, and return manufacturing to US soil... ( to aid our unbalanced trade/ imports.)
The Chi Coms - who destroy and poison their environment, kill their rivers, and pollute the sky -- and happen to support American Democratic politicians... are desperate to throw knives into the works.
the American left, who dutifully aid the Chi Coms, are doing all they can to build a fake/media recession.
American leftists root for failure, they root for cruelty, they root for corruption and lies... they root for corrupt dictators who destroy hope, families and lives.
Dunham said...
This administration cut USAID by $54 billion which was about 90% of the foreign aid budget. Researchers estimate that over 14 million preventable deaths could occur by 2030.
*****
The second sentence may be the most ridiculous assertion in the history of the Althouse blog.
A serious conversation would involve what do you with cabello and assam and the rest of the deck of cards
They could mount an insurgency with other dead enders
So can Trump distribute the 25 million dollar reward for capturing Maduro offered by Joe Biden to the Troops that captured him?
Beasts of England said...
’The easy part is over.’
Please stop pouting.
Not pouting but rather pointing out the profound hypocrisy and self inflicted ignorance of the Basket of Gulibles.
Trump claimed this was about protecting Americans from drugs and the Basket cheered.
Come to find out, drugs was an excuse to go for the oil and the Basket now cheers.
Trump campaigned on an ending wars and getting boots off the ground and the Basket cheered.
Trump now declares boots on the ground in due to a takeover for that oil and the Basket cheers.
The Basket is tying themselves in knots trying to defend this lawless grifter.
"Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolás Maduro."
Joe Biden
Ron Ward -
the lawless grifting is all on YOUR team. Team corruptocratic.
Stop being a lying a-hole.
Why is it that all the fakery on the left ---> if you peel back the funding - it's dark commie money.
Correction: It's taxpayer money, darkened by laundering through a network of NGO's controlled by commies.
Marco Rubio's announcement yesterday that NGO's are going to be completely cut out of foreign aid funds is a real game changer. All foreign aid will return to being government-to-government. Rivers of revenue that were previously embezzled for the benefit of the Democrats are going dry, and hundreds of thousands of leftist troublemakers and termites are going to have to find real jobs.
For transparency, accountability, and to stop the looting of our pockets by the racketeering Democrat enemy traitor scum, this ought to be the rule in all of government. If an NGO cannot survive without tax money, it's governmental, not non-governmental. By the same token, if there is a legitimate need for which a governmental agency has been charged to spend taxpayer funds, but it cannot do so without giving the money to a non-governmental organization, then that government agency is worthless and should be abolished or reorganized.
That was the autopen talking
A proper afghan plan would have involved taking out sanctuaries in the federated territories but few had the stolach for that
Stomach for that, among the command staff
Dedicated radical leftist DEMOCRATICS like Ron Ward - are rooting for failure.
Pete Buttigieg (then a 2020 presidential candidate; tweet on January 6, 2020, after Maduro's allies took control of the National Assembly):
"The illegitimate takeover of the Venezuelan National Assembly is further evidence that dictator Maduro will stop at nothing to consolidate his grip on power. I stand behind Juan Guaidó and the Venezuelan people as they strive to reclaim their democracy and defend their rights."
Pete Buttigieg
"For nearly two years, world leaders have stood in solidarity with Interim President Juan Guaidó and Venezuela’s last democratically-elected institution, the National Assembly, as they have faced severe political repression and a devastating humanitarian crisis. ... Legitimate legislative and presidential elections that meet international standards are the only credible path forward for resolving Venezuela’s protracted political crisis."
Bob Menendez and Dick Durbin
"The Maduro regime’s sham election... failed to meet any minimum standard of credibility."
Dick Durbin
"Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election... We congratulate Edmundo González Urrutia on his successful campaign. Now is the time for the Venezuelan parties to begin discussions on a respectful, peaceful transition in accordance with Venezuelan electoral law and the wishes of the Venezuelan people."
Anthony Blinken
"The United States stands with the people of Venezuela who expressed their voice in today’s historic presidential election. The will of the Venezuelan people must be respected. Despite the many challenges, we will continue to work toward a more democratic, prosperous, and secure future for the people of Venezuela."
Kamala Harris
’The Basket is tying themselves in knots trying to defend this lawless grifter.’
Not pouting, but… lol
me: Why is it that all the fakery on the left ---> if you peel back the funding - it's dark commie money.
Hassayamper: "Correction: It's taxpayer money, darkened by laundering through a network of NGO's controlled by commies."
Me: Correction: It's both.
Tomato tomatoe
*** but indeed - mostly American tax dollars.
Certainly the Ukrainian money that ended up enriching the Biden family - was all laundered American tax dollars.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Please stop pouting.
...
The Basket is tying themselves in knots trying to defend this lawless grifter.
We don't have to pay the Venezuelans who are celebrating this like you have to pay protestors in New York.
If you get out there quick enough there is some Chinese money floating around to pay traitors like you to attack our government.
It would be great if the Democrats, who put up two neocon dream candidates, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden, became an actual antiwar party.
"The USA is nothing more than an Oil Company with an army" -George Carlin
"lawless grifter."
This from a guy who voted, no doubt, for Hillary Clinton, who took hundreds of millions from Putin, and Joe Biden, who dove deep into the corrupt cesspool that is Kiev.
It's always gaslighting and projection with these guys.
At the very least, any non-profit organization that accepts a single penny of the money that the government monster extorts from us at gunpoint should be forbidden from transferring a single penny to ANY other non-profit organization.
They spend their money on the purposes for which it was appropriated, or they fucking well give it all back to the people from whom it was stolen.
"I heard John Bolton read from his book yesterday where he claims that Trump told him that he considered Venezuela as part of the US or owned by the US.
"Bolton should be jailed for writing that book. What a weasel."
Not that I have ever been in agreement with of John Bolton, but why are you offended by his book, and particularly by Trump's completely wrong comments about our "ownership" of Venezuela? More pertinent, why would you think he--or anyone--should be jailed for writing a book?
You sound profoundly anti-America.
Ronald J. Ward said...
"The USA is nothing more than an Oil Company with an army" -George Carlin
Now we can get into Rare Earths too.
The difference is we will actually pump the oil and the Venezuelan people will be able to eat.
Chuck is supporting the guy that forced 1/3rd of his population to flee the country. Venezuela had the 4th highest GDP in the world at one point.
Then Chuck's hero Chavez took over and Chuck is mad the Marxists are losing another country.
Hassayamper said...
At the very least, any non-profit organization that accepts a single penny of the money that the government monster extorts from us at gunpoint should be forbidden from transferring a single penny to ANY other non-profit organization.
They spend their money on the purposes for which it was appropriated, or they fucking well give it all back to the people from whom it was stolen.
There is no reason to give any of these people the benefit of the doubt.
The system was built to steal money from taxpayers and give it to democrats and illegal immigrants.
They are all traitors and just need to gtfo.
"Speaking of ownership, the Netherlands should start negotiations to sell us Greenland."
No. The Netherlands should be sending Trump communiques every day and by every medium to GO FUCK HIMSELF.
George Carlin became a bitter cynic who outlasted his once-intriguing and intelligent humor.
Correction as made above by Begley: Denmark, not the Netherlands. (But, the Netherlands should still add their "GO FUCK YOURSELF" to Denmark's, as should all other of the saner nations.)
I just saw the plans for the new Trumpworld Resort and Deplorable Event Center in Caracas. Magnificent!! Free breakfast, too!
Robert Cook:
The thing you don’t get is that Greenland is just a big real estate deal. Right now the real estate is undervalued because the current owners can’t or won’t unlock the mineral wealth. With US ownership, mining starts and all sorts of good things and wealth is created.
"The Trump I administration could never have pulled off this gambit. It was polluted with too many spies and traitors, including the vice president, the secretary of defense, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."
Now the administration consists entirely of crude, stupid thugs, mirrors of Trumps, most of whom I feel would be willing to literally fellate Donny if he required it as a gesture of loyalty.
Robert Cook:
The jailing comment was in jest. I’m a big First Amendment person as you should know.
Bolton is not a trustworthy guy. He undermined Trump and then sold secrets and confidences for a book nobody bought or read. Disloyal prick.
’…most of whom I feel would be willing to literally fellate Donny if he required it as a gesture of loyalty.’
I’m sorry Trump deposed one of your commie heroes, Cookie. At least you have Mamdani and the warmth of collectivism to tide you over. Stay strong!!
"If even 1 US soldier was killed we would be having a very different conversation now. Trump is a very lucky man. God must love him."
Nope. Satan loves and honors* the multiple YUGE packs Donny signed with him each time he needed to get out of serial catastrophes of his own making over his long public career, now winding down.
*(More than Donny ever does.)
“ As a Jew I guess this is as good a place as any to come clean and admit: I arranged the attack and overthrow of Maduro. It was me. Candace figured it out.
Thank you for your attention to this matter”
Temujin,
Did you guys use the space lasers?
"Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolás Maduro."
Joe Biden
Trump's illegal arrest of Maduro does not negate Biden's statement. There is no honor among thieves, as has long been well-known, and as proved now by Trump. All decisions are made to suit the current and expected future profits to be gained, (or catastrophes to be pushed aside and hopefully forgotten in the unceasing torrent of new headlines and outrages).
Even this wasn’t planned out and if this wasn’t then nothing was.
US oil giants silent on Trump claim they will spend billions on Venezuelan oil industry ~ The Guardian
"This administration cut USAID by $54 billion which was about 90% of the foreign aid budget. Researchers estimate that over 14 million preventable deaths could occur by 2030."
Well then, all it takes is for 100 million liberal/lefties here in the U.S. and Europe to donate $540 each to make up that shortfall. Have you written your check yet?
I think it was his second term, Chavez kicked all of the foreign petroleum workers and managers out of the country. There are a lot of licensed processes in and around the oil industry. If these processes aren't maintained properly they deteriorate quickly. The main reason their oil industry suffered is that there was no one left who knew how to run it. A lot of oil infrastructure is going to have to be rebuilt.
Hassayamper,
"if an NGO cannot survive without tax money, it's governmental, not non-governmental"
I prefer to call them captive subcontractors.
Growing up here in the Pacific Northwest, in the shadow of Boeing, I'm quite familiar with the concept. Anytime Boeing had a significant downturn, a lot of these guys went out of business.
Has anyone noticed that Cookie seems to wake up and participate on this site whenever a Communist needs to be defended?
Achilles post at 9:35 is worth reading.
Of course, for lefties, history began yesterday.
i thought This was an interesting list:
United States removal or neutralization of foreign heads of state through strategic operations:
Hawaii
Year: 1893
Head of State Removed: Queen Liliʻuokalani
President Grover Cleveland (D)
Panama
Year: 1903
Head of State Removed: Colombian sovereignty over Panama
President Theodore Roosevelt (R)
Nicaragua
Year: 1912–1917
Head of State Removed: Multiple governments
President Woodrow Wilson (D)
Haiti
Year: 1915
Head of State Removed: President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam
President Woodrow Wilson (D)
Dominican Republic
Year: 1916
Head of State Removed: Government dissolved under occupation
President Woodrow Wilson (D)
Iran
Year: 1953
Head of State Removed: Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
Guatemala
Year: 1954
Head of State Removed: President Jacobo Árbenz
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
Congo
Year: 1961
Head of State Removed: Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba
President John F. Kennedy (D)
South Vietnam
Year: 1963
Head of State Removed: President Ngô Đình Diệm
President John F. Kennedy (D)
Dominican Republic
Year: 1965
Head of State Removed: Constitutional government
President Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
Chile
Year: 1973
Head of State Removed: President Salvador Allende
President Richard Nixon (R)
Argentina
Year: 1976
Head of State Removed: President Isabel Perón
President Gerald Ford (R)
Afghanistan
Year: 1979
Head of State Removed: Soviet backed government destabilized
President Jimmy Carter (D)
Grenada
Year: 1983
Head of State Removed: Revolutionary Military Council
President Ronald Reagan (R)
Nicaragua
Year: 1981–1989
Head of State Targeted: Sandinista government (not fully removed)
President Ronald Reagan (R)
Afghanistan
Year: 1981–1989
Head of State Removed: Soviet backed government collapse accelerated
President Ronald Reagan (R)
Panama
Year: 1989
Head of State Removed: Manuel Noriega
President George H. W. Bush (R)
Serbia
Year: 2000
Head of State Removed: Slobodan Milošević
President Bill Clinton (D)
Libya
Year: 2011
Head of State Removed: Muammar Gaddafi
President Barack Obama (D)
Venezuela
Year: 2026
Head of State Removed: Nicolás Maduro Moros
President Donald Trump
Final party count
Republican Presidents: 10
Democratic Presidents: 10
https://x.com/Justin_O_Leary/status/2007713086430474304
If nobody wanted to fight for Maduro, he was not the legitimate leader of Venezuela.
I keep hearing we're going to steal the oil. Because we were stealing it before Chavez, I guess?
But I'm curious about the source of Venezuelan GDP back then. I mean, I know Caracas was yuge in the cosmetic surgery biz, but ...
Personally I think we're going to buy the oil.
Also, , how are the Venezuelans going to find a legitimate government? Other than the one that would have been used bad Maduro not stolen the last election, I mean.
Fred Drinkwater said...
I keep hearing we're going to steal the oil. Because we were stealing it before Chavez, I guess?
But I'm curious about the source of Venezuelan GDP back then. I mean, I know Caracas was yuge in the cosmetic surgery biz, but ...
Personally I think we're going to buy the oil.
During World War II the convoys to Europe would form up outside of Venezuela. Venezuela fueled the Allied efforts. This propelled them to the 4th largest GDP in the world in the 50's.
From X by way of Instapundit:
I’m devastated by this illegal capture of an elected head of state by Trump.
I live in constant fear my beloved leader, Macron who lives at 55 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Paris share the same fate. He’s usually home with Brigitte by 9pm.
Poor fellow. I hope his fears do not come to pass. 55 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, he said?
...it's been a while since I had to know but as I recall cost to extract Venezuelan crude is quite low, no where near as cheap as Saudi oil but maybe next cheapest? A responsible government would make Venezuelans very wealthy. Bad competition for Texas crude, though...
First Mamdani. Now Maduro. Can New York City handle this much communism in one city?
Researchers estimate that over 14 million preventable deaths could occur by 2030.
Horseshit, and you know it.
And Trump cares far more about humanitarian issues than you thugs lamenting Maduro's demise.
If even 1 US soldier was killed we would be having a very different conversation now. Trump is a very lucky man. God must love him.
Better luck next time, Steve. Right?
Peachy: "Ron Ward - We note you don't give a damn about the economic ruin and destruction of a nation by a corrupt election stealing tyrant narco-terrorist."
Were you reading his old posts from 2020? CC, JSM
Left Bank of the Charles said...
So it would seem from these old posts that Trump didn’t intervene back then because of Putin. What changed?
No moron, Trump didn't intervene back them because he didn't have "his" Administration, esp the military, behind him.
That has changed with Trump 2.0
Biden’s support for Ukraine diminished Putin on the world stage.
Oh, please. What Biden ACTUALLY supported was Putin invading Ukraine, and Zelensky leaving to be "president in Exile". Which is why the Biden Admin INVITED Putin to make a "limited incursion" into Ukraine.
it was only Zelensky blackmailing Biden that forced Biden to "support" Ukraine
rehajm said...
...it's been a while since I had to know but as I recall cost to extract Venezuelan crude is quite low, no where near as cheap as Saudi oil but maybe next cheapest? A responsible government would make Venezuelans very wealthy. Bad competition for Texas crude, though...
Venezuelan oil is ~15$ a barrel to extract and ~25-30$ a barrel to refine.
US oil shales are 35-50$ to extract and ~10 to refine.
Venezuela will pay for itself 10 times over.
Kakistocracy said...
I'm not sure why some Venezuelans are wildly celebrating all of this.
Damn. How did I miss this gem of fucking idiocy.
You need to go to any other country in the world and stop being a retard in this one.
You could stop being one of the dumbest people on the planet and just go ask one of them.
Cookie has the sads that American military members didn't die during this operation so that he could dunk on DJT. What a lowlife, POS.
"You need to go to any other country in the world..."
Or you could just read this post on X:
OPEN LETTER TO LIBERALS, DEMOCRATS, LIBTARDS AND THE GENERAL WOKE MOB
I see too many fuckers in here gripping their ethically sourced oat milk latte so hard the cardboard sleeve is whimpering, staring at footage of us, actual Venezuelan human beings who have spent the last decade eating sleep for dinner, cheering for the Orange Man.
HOW DARE WE, RIGHT!?
And it hurts, doesn’t it? It feels like your brain is trying to divide by zero while some asshole kicks your junk with Delta Force boots.
Since I know you ain't gonna read all this, this is the summary: FUCK YOU and your "ACKSHUALLY..." gag reflex.
There's more...
https://x.com/Knesix/status/2007960824783003721
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