Guest Post by Ron Paul
Last week President Trump announced that the United States would no longer recognize Nicholas Maduro as president of Venezuela and would recognize the head of its national assembly, Jose Guaido, as president instead. US thus openly backs regime change. But what has long been a dream of the neocons may well turn out to be a nightmare for President Trump.
Why did Trump declare that the Venezuelan president was no longer the president? According to the State Department, the Administration was acting to help enforce the Venezuelan constitution. If only they were so eager to enforce our own Constitution!
It’s ironic that a president who has spent the first two years in office fighting charges that a foreign country meddled in the US elections would turn around and not only meddle in foreign elections but actually demand the right to name a foreign country’s president! How would we react if the Chinese and Russians decided that President Trump was not upholding the US Constitution and recognized Speaker Nancy Pelosi as US president instead?
Even those who would like to see a change of government in Venezuela should reject any notion that the change must be “helped” by the United States. According to press reports, Vice President Mike Pence was so involved in internal Venezuelan affairs that he actually urged Guaido to name himself president and promised US support. This is not only foolish, it is very dangerous. A Venezuelan civil war would result in mass death and even more economic misery!
Regime change has long been US policy for Venezuela. The US has been conducting economic warfare practically since Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, was first elected in 1998. The goal of US sanctions and other economic measures against Venezuela (and other countries in Washington’s crosshairs) is to make life so miserable for average citizens that they rise up and overthrow their leaders. But of course once they do so they must replace those leaders with someone approved by Washington. Remember after the “Arab Spring” in Egypt when the people did rise up and overthrow their leader, but they then elected the “wrong” candidate. The army moved in and deposed the elected president and replaced him with a Washington-approved politician. Then-Secretary of State John Kerry called it “restoring democracy.”
It is tragically comical that President Trump has named convicted criminal Elliot Abrams as his point person to “restore democracy” in Venezuela. Abrams played a key role in the Iran-Contra affair and went on to be one of the chief architects of the disastrous US invasion of Iraq in 2003. His role in helping promote the horrible violence in Latin America in the 1980s should disqualify him from ever holding public office again.
Instead of this ham-fisted coup d’etat, a better policy for Venezuela these past 20 years would have been engagement and trade. If we truly believe in the superiority of a free market system we must also believe that we can only lead by example, not by forcing our system on others.
Just four months ago President Trump said at the UN: “I honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue its own customs, beliefs, and traditions. The United States will not tell you how to live or work or worship. We only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return.” Sadly it seems that these were merely empty words. We know from Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. that this will not end well for President Trump. Or for the United States. We must leave Venezuela alone!
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Too late Dr. Paul.
The Evil Fuckers have an inflexible objective in mind – that it is in Their interest to meddle in Venezuela’s internal affairs and restore Their power and influence there. (Can’t you just smell that light sweet crude; ahhh.) Whatever the cost, because it is in Their interest. And that sir is what shall happen whether you, me, or even The Man From Queens, likes it or not.
I suspect that the ever vigilant Mr. Paul knows the lateness of time.
But for me, I do not perceive his recriminations as the constant drubbing of malevolent utterances similar to one stringy haired, scrawny, falsifier with mauvaise dent.
Rather, Paul reminds me of a mother’s constant reminders of proper behavior, viz., “that hot stove will burn you”.
“……We only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return.”
Trump:
“Sovereignty for me, but not for thee”
Dear Mr. Trump:
Since you are now in the business of declaring who is the proper leader in countries other than your own, I ask that you turn your attention to your northern neighbour next. Kindly inform the world that Justin Trudeau is no longer the Prime Minister of Canada. After all, he’s busy ruining the country with his leftist bullshit, just like that Maduro asshole. Maybe name Wayne Gretzky or Ryan Reynolds instead.
Thank you.
P.S. Release the unredacted documents and get the fuck out of the Middle East and Africa.
“I honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue its own customs, beliefs, and traditions. The United States will not tell you how to live or work or worship. We only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return.”
Down the memory hole it goes…….and it’s gone…………..never happened.
Regards,
Winston Smith – Ministry of Truth
I had no idea Elliott Abrams was in the mix. God damn. Pompeo, Bolton, Abrams. The only one missing is Frank Gaffney – and he’s probably en route. If we wade into the mess that is Venezuela, we’ll end up with another shitload of refugees. And from the photos I’ve seen, they’re not as post-famine skinny as they claim to be, so fuck that. They fucking voted in the commies. Let them fix their own problems. No one should join the US military. It just encourages more of this shit.
Ollie North could be available for the right price. Dream come true, two Academy gaduates, West Point, Pompass, Naval , Ollie, both could practice their ala mater creed, duty, honor, country.
Somehow, the aspect of honor, i.e. not lying, never carried thru with either ollie or pompass.
“We must leave Venezuela alone!” ——- Ron Paul
RP is not alone regarding Venezuela. You know who else is FIRMLY against getting rid of Maduro? Alexandria Occasio Cuntez. Bernie Sanders. Pochahontas. And every other fucken demoncrat socialist in Congress.
All these people made strong statements this past weekend in support of Maduro, and against Trump.
Also supporting Maduro is the entire military establishment.
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def; The Military —- a group of people (usually psychopaths) in ANY and EVERY country in the world which will shoot its own citizens when the government tells them too.
Maduro addresses his military.
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Eventually coming to Amerika ….
Stucky..
How is that any different than Saudi Socialism or British Socialism or U.S. Socialism. Nobody is more corrupt than us and the Saudis. They and we subsidize the hell out of their populations to keep them sedated. They and we would not have a Monarchy and Hereditary Nobility without massive socialism. I know you know it wouldn’t be safe fore you and Mrs. Freud in Joisey if all those splivs and spics weren’t sedated with free shit. And yes we have a Hereditary Nobility here. I give you Bill gates and the Bushes as exhibit A and B.
If we are going to bad mouth Socialists in Latin America lets do it from an open and honest platform. We love the Socialists in Singapore and Japan and France. Japan had universal healthecare in 65 when I was there playing whorehouse commando with tax payer dollars.
You yourself did and excellent article on Venezuelan Tantalum deposits and why we want them. Huge deposits of Iron and Gold coupled with the largest reserves of oil on the planet and they have hardly begun exploration of the Guyana deposits. Whats not to like about owning all that and keeping it out of the hands of those other Evil socialists in Russia and China. Why don’t we just come out and say it like real despots in the days of Yore. GIVE US YOUR SHIT BITCH OR WERE GONNA SMOKE YOUR ASSES. At least we could claim the lower high ground of saying we didn’t cloak it in some pink pantie wearing ManPussy bs about making it safe for Democracy or its for the kiddies.
Nice post.
Can’t disagree with anything you wrote.
You misspelled her last name, it’s Ocasio
what a high falutin,faggy name you have there ellington,are you sure you belong here?
British Nobility.
Brazil and Columbia will send in the Latin ISIS, but due to a lack of Muslims in PJ’s and white Toyota trucks they’ll be in Habbits and riding Jet Ski’s.
Does anyone else see themselves increasingly dragged over to rooting for the people targeted for u.s. government aggression? I have no hatred of Russians. I wish them well. Why wouldn’t I? Their government is no more fucked up than mine. I feel awful that the u.s. g-men caused that terrible civil war in Syria-the country in the mideast that protects christians. Assad can walk unescorted among his people. Can trump? Clinton? Bush? I don’t know what the real deal is in Venezuela-I have a hard enough time scrutinizing my own “leaders”. But I say leave them be to solve their own problems. Is that not an American value?
It’s not a natural feeling for me to root against Americans. On the other hand, I have these thoughts….
CCR..
Me too. So what if the poor want a piece of the action in their own country. We obliterated half of Syria to save the Syrians from an alleged meany who like you say, protects Christians and can walk freely among his own people.
Need more proof? Check this out:
CCR..
right. A Dem fixer and a Republican fixer both down there. But we have a 2 party system right?
Wassanoma & Jezebel in the same photo…
MY EYES! MY EYES!
I saw That! Shouldn’t DWS fix the voter fraud happening in her counties in Florida before telling a sovereign nation who it should have as its ruler….
Damn! Pretty soon we will be forced to cast our ballots for elections whoch will end up being nothing more than what happens in the NBA all star voting,….thisnis what happens when you force the prols to vote!
RP and his side order of pork….
The Venezuelans broke it; let them fix it. Not worth one 19 year old cripple let alone dead.