The crisis in Venezuela should be worked out by the Venezuelan people and should under no circumstances be engineered by any foreign power.
At the moment the United States is conducting an aggressive investigation into alleged Russian interference into its 2016 elections.
As such, the US has no authority to tip the scales in Venezuela one way or the other and neither does any other nation.
What is right for the United States must also be right for the rest of the world.
But you wouldn’t know it from listening to
Bolton, a well-known warmonger who would never allow an opportunity to go to war to go unexploited, wormed his way into the Trump administration and got the job he wanted, that of national security adviser.
Donald Trump campaigned on pulling America out of what he called “stupid wars,” in his unique incoherent gibberish, Trump managed to articulate a policy which indicated that he did not believe in an America in which the country is the policeman of the world.
Juan Guaidó
Despite those self-serving protestations by Trump, his administration has moved to recognize Juan Guido’s decision to declare himself interim president of Venezuela.
The Trump administration has also taken steps to hand to Juan Guido the accounts that Venezuela has outside the country.
Those moves are designed to topple the presidency of Nicolas Maduro.
Regardless of what one thinks of Nicolas Maduro’s presidency or the way he acquired it, it is inconceivable to imagine a scenario in which the United States would allow a foreign power to actively decide who is president of the United States.
Or is it?
Without foreign currency, Venezuela cannot conduct business and the Venezuelan economy will ostensibly collapse.
Donald Trump preaches America First, he rarely invokes democracy and human rights and has expressed glowing admiration for dictators such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong
Siding with Juan Guido supposedly to restore democracy in Venezuela rings hollow.
The Atlantic argued: Asked to explain the president’s anomalous stance on Maduro during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, noted that both Venezuela and the United States are bound to a multinational charter they adopted in 2001 that enshrines representative democracy as the prevailing political system in the Western hemisphere. But the rationale rang hollow. If we’ve learned one thing from Trump’s presidency, it’s that he doesn’t feel the least bit tethered to international agreements when he believes they aren’t in the national interest.
Asked about the potential of a military incursion into Venezuela, John Bolton remarked to the press that the President has maintained that all options are on the table.
Bolton tried to make the case that such actions would be to protect Americans in Venezuela.
All options should not be on the table if America simply brings its diplomats home. Countries kick diplomats out all the time. This time should be no different.
As the crisis in Trump’s presidency heightens it seems like yet another wag-the-dog military exercise could be in the works to distract attention away from a floundering presidency.
America has a chief executive who has been named as a co-conspirator in a felony. There is a productive and ever threatening Special Counsel
His border wall inspired Government shutdown ended after 35 days with the Democrats holding fast under the leadership of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s leadership.
With little to no legislative accomplishments to point to and another presidential campaign beginning to take shape on the horizon.
The sad yet dangerous irony in all of this is that a presidency which came into existence on the promise to extricate America from stupid wars