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Well, the OAS is the appropriate body for dealing with this, and it seems as if he's somehow forgotten to castigate or try to delegitimize the OAS, so that's one small blessing. In the ideal case, all this tough talke -- All options on table, for us or ...."
Serves a useful signalling purpose. It tells Russia and China, "Don't push it. We were restrained about the Northern Caucuses, Geogia, Ukraine, even Syria, but you don't want to know what we'd do if you push it too far on our hemiphere.
That alone might make them think, "Maybe it;s not worth it." But if it doesn't, we're in a fucking nightmake, because either we're exposed once and for all as the superpower who's mouth keeps writing checks that its military doesn't want to cash,
Or on some enraged impulsle, Trump decides to go in there, all guns blazing, his popurity skyrockets, we lay waste to the place, and no one ever treats us as anything but a rogue state for the rest of our existence.
Oh, and while we'd win any convention war, we'd have broke it, so we'd have to but it --not our strength.
And that's the kind of conflict that could become a nuclear war, fast. Cuban missile crisis wasn't' remotely as provocative as what Russia's been doing.
And that's the kind of conflict that could become a nuclear war, fast. Cuban missile crisis wasn't' remotely as provocative as what Russia's been doing.
I just hope Trump doens't realize that.
So yes, I'm scared. But less by Trump than by the situation.
So yes, I'm scared. But less by Trump than by the situation.
Clarification: "While we would win any conventional war, we would break it [Venezuela], so we'd have to buy it [accept responsibility for its security and reconstruction]. That ["buying it"] is not our strength."
