{"id":73952,"date":"2017-08-12T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T13:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73952"},"modified":"2017-08-12T09:13:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T13:13:02","slug":"no-trump-didnt-say-he-was-invading-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73952","title":{"rendered":"No, Trump didn’t say he was invading Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The internet is freaking out because the President said that he wasn’t ruling out military options in regards to Venezuela. That is to say, that he’s probably not ruling out military options in regards to Belize or Belgium, either. We don’t have problems with Belize or Belgium, but, you can bet that if there were problems, there is probably a plan for a military option in some file cabinet in the Pentagon somewhere.<\/p>\n

But, back to Venezuela, the Washington Post<\/a> wrote;<\/p>\n

Late Friday, the White House announced that Maduro had requested a phone call with Trump that day and that Trump had turned him down, saying that he will not speak to the leader until “democracy is restored in that country.”<\/p>\n

“Since the start of this Administration, President Trump has asked that Maduro respect Venezuela\u2019s constitution, hold free and fair elections, release political prisoners, cease all human rights violations, and stop oppressing Venezuela\u2019s great people,” the White House said in a statement late Friday night. “The Maduro regime has refused to heed this call, which has been echoed around the region and the world. Instead Maduro has chosen the path of dictatorship.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CNN<\/a> records the Venezuelan response;<\/p>\n

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino called Trump’s talk of possible military action a “crazy act.”<\/p>\n

“As Minister of Defense and as a citizen I say this is a crazy act, an act of supreme extremism,” Padrino said via phone on state-owned television network VTV.
\n“There is an extremist elite in the US government,” he added, “and I really don’t know what is happening and what will happen in the world. If humanity will end. If planet Earth will end.”<\/p>\n

The president of Venezuela’s new Constituent Assembly — the controversial body elected to rewrite the Venezuelan Constitution amid the country’s political crisis — fired off a series of tweets late Friday slamming Trump’s remarks as “cowardly, insolent and vile threats.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the Venezuela Bolivarian government has been hoping for a US invasion since the GWB\/Chavez years – something that they can blame their troubles on besides their empty socialist ideology.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon isn’t admitting that they’ve made preparations to invade Venezuela. I’m sure they have a plan, somewhere that they can dust off and put into the works. <\/p>\n

What the Trump administration has done is slap sanctions on Venezuela when Maduro held suspicious elections to replace the opposition legislature with 500 of his supporters. That and he wouldn’t take Maduro’s phone call. Hardly a warning for war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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