[Simon_ORourke]

What's the desired strategic outcome here - to remove the incumbent president and his political party from power and replace it with one more favorable to US oil interests? And to do that without putting ground troops in to some Latin American Vietnam? Good luck with that.

[pxmpxm]

Maria Machado? I thought independent observers mostly agreed she won the election?

[GordonS]

It'll be the usual playbook: replace Maduro with a pet dictator. It won't go well for Venezuela and it's people, but since when did the USA give a damn about people?

[HDThoreaun]

Things can not get worse for Venezuelans than they were under maduro

[GordonS]

Hyperbole - they most certainly can get worse

[int_19h]

You know what's worse than a shitty economy under a dictator?

Your family dying in the rubble of a bombed house.

[HDThoreaun]

Personally I’d rather be buried in rubble than starve to death

[int_19h]

It's not an either-or, lots more people starve during wars as well.

[paul7986]

And yet droves and droves from south and Central America want to come here and live instead!

Also do these countries governments care for their own ppl? Seems like no as if they did ..they wouldn’t be corrupt 2nd to 3rd world countries & their citizens wouldn’t be fleeing to America in droves

[GordonS]

You might want to look into the history of why South and Central America have been blighted by corruption and dictators - the USA has had a large hand in it.