The US does have some issues at the moment, how can we save them from the horrors of socialism if we don't extend our reach?

@FriendlyHappa It really isn't America's problem though, Venezuela democratically voted themselves into socialism.

Hear, hear!

The will of the people are with the opposite side of American corporate profits that we are propping up tho.

@george right now the will of the people is not to starve to death while their President and his cronies live large. Do you actually think that as the number 4 supplier of oil to the United States until recently, Venezuela is broke and can't feed their people? Russia is intervening right now with "military advisors". China is most likely intervening.
Like it or not, we have global interests that must be protected. You, I, and everyone in this country depends on relative stability in our own hemisphere. There are methods of intervention that do not require military action. I think a massive airlift of food and medical supplies would be our best course of action.

@Blackraven they elected a super majority of maduro's party in the last two elections they had showing that is the ideology they want. Our elites want the opposite because they want a puppet that will bend to their will whenever they say and that is what this is all about. We were cool with Hussein until he threatened to drop the petro dollar then he had to go, same with Ghadafi, and Assad in Syria. We will destroy a stable country to the point of slave auctions like in Lydia to ensure the profits of very few and then we are on the long path of decades of financial and military support like south Korea has been for half a century now. If those people don't want what we do then we are wasting money and killing innocent people as collateral damage for nothing. We wouldn't allow China to overthrow our government and install communism and those people are not gonna stand for us thinking we are morally superior and can just go in and wipe out any government we don't like but scream foul when people think a country has just influenced an election in the US. Pure hypocrisy that beats any kind of religious hypocrisy I know of.

The best play is just cut off all business with those countries and let it be. We can't control the whole world and make sure everything is all butterflies and picnics for other countries. Those people have to want it enough to fight for it their self or it is just a waste.

I totally understand what you're saying, but I've communicated with a fair number of people that live there or have fled there, the scenario they are describing involves massive voter fraud and starvation. I'm going to stand with my position on food and medical aid similar to the Berlin airlift.
As a veteran, I am completely against troops on the ground. My main point was, and is, there are different types of intervention. There is a need for humanitarian aid, and personally, I'd rather see it go to Venezuela right now instead of some other places we are currently dumping supplies on.

My thinking is we go in, "liberate" get in their oil supply then war with Iran here we come.

@FriendlyHappa prob will be the way we go but I don't agree with it myself. Trying to force a government on people means long term financial and military obligations. Those people have to want it and fight for it in order for it to last. Esp with Venezuela because they prefer the one we want to wipe out so they won't be trying to help us maintain our pick at all.

@george I don't agree as well, but unfortunately with our government's track record, that's the way it's trending. It's gonna end up being another middle east f*ckfest except in our own hemisphere.

Couldn't agree more, sadly it's been US policy for a while now

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