Was it socialism or a capitalist conspiracy that tanked Venezuela's economy?
I'll give our porn star-and-Putin-loving president this: just when you think there's no further folly of his that could surprise you, bingo!
In the midst of our muggy and militaristic Fourth of July celebrations this year came the revelation that Trump seriously wanted to invade Venezuela, and had repeatedly raised the prospect with his staff, advisers, and the leaders of other South American countries.
To which I could only say, huh?
Since most of his advisers and all of the Latin American leaders apparently nixed this idea, it hasn't happened, but it left me wondering, Why would we want to do that? Is Venezuela building nuclear weapons? Annexing Colombia? Interfering in our elections? Bragging that it's got a bigger button?
Or had he—perhaps on a slow afternoon at Mar-a-Lago—just thrown a bunch of nation names into a Make America Great Again hat and pulled out Venezuela? Could we just as easily have been plotting the invasion of Canada?
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