Guest Post by Ron Paul
Is President Trump about to invade Venezuela? His advisors keep telling us in ever-stronger terms that “all options are on the table” and that US military intervention to restore Venezuela’s constitution “may be necessary.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on the Sunday news programs to claim that President Trump could launch a military attack against Venezuela without Congress’s approval.
Pompeo said that, “[t]he president has his full range of Article II authorities and I’m very confident that any action we took in Venezuela would be lawful.” The man who bragged recently about his lying, cheating, and stealing, is giving plenty of evidence to back his claim.
The president has no Constitutional authority to start a war with Venezuela or any other country that has not attacked or credibly threatened the United States without Congressional approval. It is that simple.
How ironic that Pompeo and the rest of the neocons in the Trump Administration are ready to attack Venezuela to “restore their constitution” but they could not care less about our own Constitution!
While Washington has been paralyzed for two years over disproven claims that the Russians meddled in our elections to elect Trump, how hypocritical that Washington does not even hesitate to endorse the actual overturning of elections overseas!
Without Congressional authority, US military action of any kind against Venezuela would be an illegal and likely an impeachable offense. Of course those Democrats who talk endlessly of impeaching Trump would never dream of impeaching of him over starting an illegal war. Democrats and Republicans both love illegal US wars.
Unfortunately, Washington is so addicted to war that President Trump would likely have little difficulty getting authority from Congress to invade Venezuela if he bothered to ask. Just as with the disastrous US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the mainstream media is nothing but non-stop war propaganda. Even so-called progressives like Rachel Maddow are attacking the Trump Administration not for its reckless saber-rattling toward Venezuela but for not being aggressive enough!
The real lesson is that even a “Constitutional” war against Venezuela would not be a just war. It would be a war of aggression for which Americans should be angry and ashamed. But the mainstream media is pumping out the same old pro-war lies, while the independent media is under attack from social media companies that have partnered with US government entities to decide what is “fake news.”
The latest outrage in the mainstream media is over the most sensible thing President Trump has done in some time: last week he spent an hour on the telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss, among other things, the dangerous situation in Venezuela.
While President Trump’s neocon advisors are purposely trying to position him so that war is the only option, we can only hope that President Putin was able to explain that the Venezuela problem must be solved by the Venezuelans themselves. Certainly the US, perhaps together with the Russians, could help facilitate discussions between the government and the opposition, but the neocon road to war will surely end up like all the other neocon wars: total disaster.
The media is furious that Trump dared to speak to Putin as the two countries increasingly face-off over Venezuela. The Democrats and neocons are pushing for a direct confrontation that may even involve Russia. Republicans agree. Do they really prefer thermonuclear war? Over Venezuela?
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Campaign Trail, October 2020
“My administration worked quietly, very quietly, nobody’s administration is quieter, behind the ‘real’ scenes in Venezuela, not the fake scenes of lying, loudmouth, fake news, to save Venezuela from me. We worked quietly because the lying media will not give us a loudmouth voice. But I tell the truth, beautiful truth, Miss America truth, Tweet Truths.
And I taught Pootie-Poo to tweet truth, too! WE have fantastic tweet times. Pootie-poo only tells me Tweet Truths.
Pootie-Poo tweeted some very interesting information to me, only me, because Tweets are safe in my hands. The world’s safest hands. Top Secret Information hands. Eyes Only hands. Lying, loudmouth media can’t read disappearing tweets, so they are NOT evidence of collusion. Dumbsfeld said it best ‘Collusion of evidence is not evidence of collusion.’”
“I was not absent in Venezuela. I am not absent anywhere. I have presence everywhere, splendid presence, more presence than anyone. Except Pootie-Poo. He had presence when he was pre-pubescent. Pootie-Poo was present when Venezuela stole Cuba’s Constitution.
Lying, loudmouth media tells you that Pootie-Poo stole our constitution, but he just borrowed it. To show Maduro that we had one too. Lying, loudmouth media won’t even tell you that Venezuela has a constitution, and Putin had to tweet me Tweet Truths to help us all discover that we have one too.”
“Quietly, my administration formed a remedial reading class with Maduro and, as you know from my Tweet Truths, what we read in our Constitutions saved the world’s largest oil reserves from becoming Earth’s last birthday candle.”
“I did that. And I’ll do it again if you elect me to grab the lying, loudmouth media by its short hairs. I’ll keep blowing Tweet Truth at the CIA’s candles out until they extinguish mine.”
“Thank you, and God bless the Tweet Truth”.
Even though Bolton and Pompeo are warning that the same China that’s (wisely) rounding up its own Muslims is inexplicably partnering with Iran to sustain Maduro, there’s not going to be any war in Venezuela. It’s good for Ron Paul to remind everyone that there shouldn’t be, but there isn’t going to be one.
America can’t pop a stiffy hard enough for a 2nd nut in Grenada.
We’ll have to be content slapping our puppet’s faces with a milked chubby.
There is so much American oil under Venezuela and America needs to secure it before the Russians and Chinese take over. Maduro is quickly becoming a Russian puppet, we are about to lose the NorKo potential puppet. We need puppets, dammit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liKhLNY5GYI
Keep on hollerin’ for us, Colonel Jessup, “You WANT to be dickwhipped, you NEED to be dickwhipped!”
I recall a scriptural footnote somewhere that says that’s on Babylon’s Battle Flag
I agree with Ron. We will have another nuclear war just like the 2014 Ukrainian nuclear war. Chicken Little has lost credibility on this issue. TPB are indeed evil but they are to smrt to turn the planet into a glass paved parking lot.
A Nuclear War? Over Venezuela?
“He said it like there’s something wrong with the idea, right Pompy?”