Best theory on why the invasion of Venezuela.

[Ferrets are Cool]

He is losing here, so he has to win somewhere.
Republican men always prey on the vulnerable. Whether they be female, minorities, or smaller countries
Krasnov has always marked vulnerable targets. Now is no different.
Bush did the same. He was losing in America. He was losing in Afghanistan. He chose Iraq to win.
They are monsters.

[tinrobot]

1. Probably some truth to that.

One perverse thought is that maybe he'll be too busy destroying that country to continue destroying this one.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. Epstein who?

[mitch96]

18. Great way to misdirect attention from the epstein thing... nt

[Cosmocat]

3. Reagen and Grenada

But, this is more than that ... Its a business transaction.

[VMA131Marine]

5. Bush the First and Panama

[VMA131Marine]

4. Invasion is the wrong term

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We don’t currently have military forces in Venezuela and we certainly aren’t “running the country.” Trump can certainly try to coerce the remaining Venezuelan government but unless he’s willing to put a lot of boots on the ground, or keep kidnapping its leaders, Trump’s leverage is fundamentally limited. Marco Rubio certainly is not going to run the country.

[AZJonnie]

10. "Marco Rubio certainly is going to run the country."?

Sorry to be daft but the start of your paragraph would seem to (essentially) explain why the US is not in a position to run the country, then you say Rubio will do so? Did you miss a "not" in the last sentence?

[VMA131Marine]

15. Stupid typo 🤦🏻

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

6. Trump has turned the U.S. into a business operating out of a strip mall store front.

R.I.P.

[JI7]

7. It's about money

[milestogo]

8. Republican men love to start wars.

Its the only thing that makes them feel like men.

[Amishman]

9. I don't think he had much to do with it - it's too clever

Once you ignore the fact that this move is illegitimate under international law, it starts looking rather clever. Which tells me it was one of his string pullers running this.

Low risk - poor and struggling country means lots of people willing to sell information, especially with the unpopularity of Maduro. Probably some of the easiest to obtain and most detailed intelligence we had on any unfriendly country. Not to mention Venezuela is toothless militarily, possessing outdated Russian equipment that is completely ineffective against US arms.

Hard to criticize - again, other than the whole huge it's illegal part - it's hard to speak out against this without risking being framed as supporting Maduro. Maduro is a nasty piece of work who has held on to power with a sham election and brutal oppression. His countries economy has rotted away under his tenure, and millions have fled. He is tied to US drug trafficking (though hardly the biggest fish in that large ocean). It takes a nuanced argument to explain why this was still a bad thing even though we quickly and cleanly removed a total bastard from power. The majority of this country is too stupid or disinterested for a nuanced explanation.

It's also a big slap in the face to both Russia and China. Russia's been trying to bring Ukraine back under their wing since 2014, ever since the Euromaidan kicked out their old puppet government. The US cleanly and relatively bloodlessly decapitating an unfavorable regime overnight rubs Russia's nose in the gap between their capabilities and ours. China has spend tens of billions (upwards of $100 billion by some estimates) propping up Venezuela in exchange for future oil promises, access, and influence. That's a lot of money potentially down the tube.

[krawhitham]

11. Or if China can no longer buy oil from Venezuela, they will have to buy from Russia

[BlueTsunami2018]

12. No, this is about the petrodollar.

People are making this out to be some complicated affair. The two world capitalist powers, the G7 and BRICS, are trying to establish global economic dominance.

Venezuela has been dealing with BRICS nations that use a different currency than the petrodollar. We (the west) need them on the petrodollar. That’s all this is about, forcing them back into the fold. And that’s what Iraq was about.as well. Personalities have nothing to do with it.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. I disagree, but not enough to fight over it.

[Mysterian]

14. We weren't losing in Afghanistan

The U.S. simply did not send enough troops to Afghanistan, where our enemy was located, to accomplish the mission. The corrupt Cheney/Bush regime had most U.S. forces standing by for the unjustified Iraq invasion.

[Iggo]

16. 1. Epstein. 2. Document theft. 3. Trumps bad health. 4. Epstein.

Hell burn the world down before it’s shown that he fucks children.

[Johnny2X2X]

17. Mostly because Madurro made fun of Trump's dancing

This wasn't regime change, nothing has changed in Venezuela. This was just Trump being thin skinned and petty.