Tornado Alley (PROG)

[sortagreen]

The country is on a better track; theres a plan in place. Have patience, give it a year or so..

OK... That's delusional. There is no plan in place. The regime is still the same regime it was under Maduro, without Maduro.

trump has no intention of making anything better for anyone but himself and his oligarch cronies, and he has no ability to do even the least of it.

No one's arguing that the situation in Venezuela isn't grim. A lot of that has to do with thuggery. A lot has to do with a US embargo, but none of that is going to change. The US invaded the country, kidnapped the president... and departed. Nothing has changed there. It certainly doesn't sound much like anyone was "liberated".

And it's "should have" not "should of".

As Gary Legum wrote yesterday...

As usual, Trump has really thought nothing through. His tiny pea brain made the calculus that he could get rid of Maduro, and then everything would just sort of work itself out. So the chances he follows through with much of his big talk, at least in any meaningful way, are probably slim.

Polls so far show that maybe two-thirds of Republican voters support what he’s doing in Venezuela, which is not a lot for your own party. The oil companies are exceptionally unexcited about rebuilding Venezuela’s oil extraction capacity, which they seem to think could take years while Trump seems to think it could be done by next Thursday.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/whom-shall-america-bomb-next-for

Oil is currently selling for less than $60 a bbl. Consumption is dropping rapidly as the world adopts EVs. No one's trying to add another few million bbls a day at those prices or under those circumstances.