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Trump: "We have many options for Venezuela...not going to rule out a military option"
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It is practically next to Mexico. Which makes us neighbors.
butzopower
proud of his butz
teenagestepdad showing up on GAF, shit has hit the big time now
What makes you think he doesn't already know?
Souldriver
Member
He probably doesn't even know what's going on in Venezuela. A reporter just asks him "Hey, what do you think about Venezuela", and he replies with his typical 50 words counting vocabulary word salad non-answer.
Oh shit, maybe Putin wants Trump to go in?
Anything's on the table with Donald "Take the oil, to the victor go the spoils" Trump.
You can see how he realized he fucked up and tried to save face with his "we are everywhere" bit just afterwards.
Oh who am I kidding, of course he has no idea if Venezuela borders the US or not.
FullMetaltech
Member
This guy doesnt even know the meaning of being on vacation or president. At this point who isnt left to piss off.
SiegfriedFM
Member
This is a good thing. Someone distracted him from North Korea so he forgot that he wanted to start a nuclear war.
KenzinFive
Member
Venezuela is a shit show and what's happening there is awful. But Maduro would easily use America attacking the country as a reason to consolidate more power and he would actually get more of his people to support him against a foreign enemy.
You can't give shitheads like Maduro ammo to promote their agenda. Just this statement alone is going to be used by Maduro as anti-America, pro-Maduro propaganda. The only thing an attack against the county would create is more support for Maduro.
You can't give shitheads like Maduro ammo to promote their agenda. Just this statement alone is going to be used by Maduro as anti-America, pro-Maduro propaganda. The only thing an attack against the county would create is more support for Maduro.
Advocatus Diaboli
Member
Can someone please just ask him about Agrabah?
His base already supports bombing it.
His base already supports bombing it.
Randolph Freelander
Member
Yet another day we would have better off electing Gary "What's Aleppo?" Johnson.
Honestly, I'd rather have the guy he had as VP. That guy at least had a head on his shoulders and seemed to recognize the danger of Trump.
Even more time to watch cable tv
Randolph Freelander
Member
Neighbors wouldn't be restricted to immediately adjacent. Venezuela is close, and for that matter, the historical US perspective is that it controls the Americas.
GitarooMan
Member
This is like some insecure manchild talking. "Oh and by the way, I have a big dick too."
KojiKnight
Member
More proof that its not Trump that's on vacation, but his handlers.
Time is a flat circle
We already are an empire. We're conducting active drone wars in half a dozen countries and have permanent in sixteen others. Our foreign policy objectives demand a monopoly on international power projection and our dominance over weak and dependant economies is not unlike that of Romans or Mongols to their tributary states.
Trump's anti-Venezuela bravado is chasing a 200-year project to subjugate the nations of Latin America to US desires. For about eighty years, Venezuela in particular was effectively controlled by the American companies that pilfered its oil wealth and shipped off its produce to first-world groceries. Hugo Chavez broke this cycle by nationalizing American corporate property and building a social democratic economy largely independent of the Western marketplace. For the past twenty years our government has been trying to overthrow the system Chavez created, and now Trump wants to bomb their country until the Venezuelans trade their national autonomy for some good ol' American freedom.
What fucking reporter asked him that question. Who has been of the opinion that we should be responsible for "doing something about the mess in Venezuela?"
Was this a plant or something? Have I missed that discussion? Wtf?
Was this a plant or something? Have I missed that discussion? Wtf?
Robdraggoo
Member
Wait, what's going on in Venezuela?
I missed something major
I missed something major
elrechazado
Banned
I thought we were talking about trump, not GAF.
Randolph Freelander
Member
Don't worry, Trump doesn't know, either.
You've been missing a lot of major things happening in Venezuela. Most recently, a rigged election with a changed constitution.
It's almost half a continent away...
Venezuela is a hot fucking mess and a sensible politician would be able to answer that without sounding like a dumbass. It's a reasonable question, does the president think the US should do something to help Venezuelans?
RPGCrazied
Member
That press conference was a disaster. Now maybe war with Venezuela?
And still laughing at him saying he has signed over 48 bills of legislation, not executive orders.
And still laughing at him saying he has signed over 48 bills of legislation, not executive orders.
Smiles and Cries
Member
gotta get that OIL
Green Yoshi
Member
Perhaps he forgets about North Korea if he is allowed to play his war game in Venezuela. Plus they don't have nukes. 
That's actually not the case with Maduro.
The guy was probably writing something about it and wanted a US perspective. Dude probably expected something along the lines of: "We're monitoring the situation as it develops and are concerned with some of the news coming out of the country. As an important neighbor to the south we feel it would be in everyone's best interests...yada yada yada...importance of democracy...yada yada yada...democratically elected leaders and free speech"
This would be a funny post if Trump wasn't echoing an impetus that's driven US foreign policy for over a century.
I still cannot get over this fact. I am routinely astounded everytime I read his statements.
And_Gignac
Member
STAY
THE
FUCK
OUT
OF
LATINAMERICA
THE
FUCK
OUT
OF
LATINAMERICA
Lol, those expectations were shattered pretty quickly then.
With all the talk Trump does about going and stealing oil from Iraq, he's the last dude anybody should be asking to sweep into Venezuela for some America First world policing.
We have many options for Venezuela.
We have many options for Venezuela.
We have many options for Venezuela.
options
option
options
options
option
And by the way
very, very far away
not very far away
elrechazado
Banned
I assume this is James Monroe's gaf account and you're talking to Europe and Asia.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
This is precisely the news Maduro needed to justify his repression, you goddamned idiot
IMO as long as their current government continues to do what it's been doing I don't think we should help them.
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