Trump orders military to hold drills off coast of Venezuela

What a preposterous and expensive way to distract from one's pedophilia. The UK has stopped sharing intelligence with the U.S. over Trump's war crimes in the Caribbean.

 

Huh, for a second I almost forgot trump was a pedophile.

 

Hey, someone has to win the Nobel War Prize, right?

 

It is no secret that the US administration, would like to see Maduro toppled, something members of Venezuela's opposition have longed called for.

The US does not recognize Maduro as the president of Venezuela.

 

Not really, it is recognized that he is the illegitimate president of Venezuela. Since he cheated to win.

 

I think Trump is doing all this murdering off the coast of Venezuela to try to distract from Epstein. His next step might be murdering in Venezuela.

 

You are correct:

That was the Trump-era policy.
Biden softened the position — he reopened direct negotiations with Maduro, eased oil sanctions, and effectively treats him as Venezuela’s acting president even while calling the past election illegitimate.
So my statement needs the timeline: it used to be non-recognition, but not anymore.

 

Sorry your statement was misspoken. It was incorrect English. He IS president. Your statement was that he was not president which is obviously incorrect. He IS president. He IS just an invalid or illegitimate president because he cheated. That is just plain English. It has nothing to do with Biden or Trump, just the way that English works.

 

It's a bedrock principle of public international law that no state has the right to interfere in the internal affairs of another state. The U.S. has a centuries old habit of ignoring this principle in the Western Hemisphere.

It's nothing new.

 

I wouldn't quibble with someone that said "Trump is not my President". They are making a political statement rather than trying to state a false fact. Trying to say, "Trump is not President of the USA." Would simply be factually incorrect unless they were instead trying to make some political statement in a different context.

 

There are a variety of ways people may rise to the leadership of their country. Democratic process are just a few of them.

There are also a variety of ways to remove the leader of a country. Again, democratic processes are just a few of them.

Maduro is the president of Venezuela, irrespective of how he got there. And if he is removed, however it happens, he no longer will be.

 

Sanity and logic in the political forum, I will double my efforts to follow your example.

 

The current U.S. administration supports the removal of Maduro and the restoration of a democratic government in Venezuela—or at minimum, genuinely free and fair elections.

When it comes to drug trafficking, Venezuela is a minor player compared to Colombia and Mexico, which are the primary sources of narcotics entering the United States.

The broader concern with Venezuela is geopolitical: Caracas has aligned itself with regimes and organizations hostile to U.S. interests, making it a strategic threat well beyond the drug-trafficking issue.

 

When has this ever worked? Panama, maybe? But Noriega wasn't an actual threat, nor much of a dictator. He was a pain in tuchus for the U.S. and most of the world was against him.

Does anyone seriously think removing Maduro will bring spring to Venezuela?

 

It sure will be harder for the media to follow the Epstein files if we are at war.

 

But what does Trump gain personally from removing Maduro? I won't believe Trump intends to invade until I get an answer to this question.

 

I agree with you. It is unclear at this point what Trump would gain. However, Trump is always trying to control the subject being discussed. He does this with lies, hyperbole, distraction and creating new topics to discuss. If Trump needs to create a new topic then invasion of Venezuela might come in handy.