U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier that the U.S. would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás Maduro.
Rubio’s statements on TV talk shows seemed designed to temper concerns about whether the assertive American action to achieve regime change might again produce a prolonged foreign intervention or failed attempt at nation-building.
They stood in contrast to Trump’s broad but vague claims that the U.S. would at least temporarily “run” the oil-rich nation — comments that suggested some sort of governing structure under which Caracas would be controlled by Washington.
But Rubio offered a more nuanced take, saying the U.S. would continue to enforce an oil quarantine that was already in place on sanctioned tankers before Maduro was removed from power early Saturday and use that leverage as a means to press for policy changes in Venezuela.
So Trump kidnaps Venezuela’s president, which will probablly throw the nation into a massive crisis, then says the US will have nothing to do with running the country as long as all the oil is delivered to America.
Jfc. The collective stupidity in the WH is utterly astounding.
More like collective cruelty
In s neither, it’s extortion on a massive scale. The U.S. is being run by gangsters.
would you accept ‘collective cruelty and stupidity’? or would ‘collective cruelty, stupidity, and shortsightedness’ be more accurate? How about ‘collective cruelty, stupidity, greed, and shortsightedness’?
Where’s the stupidity? They’ve made their demonstration: do what the US wants or you’ll be Shanghaied - I guess we should call that New Yorked now - in the wee hours and be in a US jail awaiting kangaroo court.
The implication for the next administration, whoever they may be, is obvious. The US doesn’t need to run the country if the country’s government is strong-armed into doing what the US wants.
This, incidentally, is exactly what Russia wants out of Ukraine: they’re happy with any outcome where they aren’t prevented from repeating their aggression, so that all the blood and treasure they’ve expended on the war serves as a repeatable example for the post-war Ukraine government: “do what we want, or get bombed to fuck.”