How bad could things get in Venezuela? At RealClearWorld Allison Fedirka speculates:
The most likely scenario is a combination approach in which public unrest is the major engine driving the transformative process. As options for legal resolution – such as elections – become less likely and daily quality of life deteriorates, public unrest will intensify. Regardless of how these forces combine, they exist and are converging to a point of rupture this year, which will result in the breaking point for Maduro and his government. For the first time in nearly two decades, the United States and others in the region will have the opportunity to reset relations with Venezuela.
I don’t think I’d be so quick to dismiss the Venezuelans’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Their track record has been pretty solid lately.
Venezuela’s problem is that they are not taxing the rich enough, and the government is not creating enough money. All they need to do is increase taxes on the rich and print more money, and once they distribute all this money to the poor, they will be able to buy stuff. Free money will solve everything.
What they do not produce can be imported. I am sure that China, Europe, and America are lining up to trade Venezuelan cash for actual goods. Free-trade will solve everything.
There is nothing that government money and free-trade cannot solve,
We are no longer in a position to sneer at any other country’s inability to handle democracy.
We are no longer in a position to sneer at any other country’s inability to handle democracy.
You need to change that to I or The Left.
It looks like you all have gotten worn out by the protest of the day. Keep following that red dot.
Tasty:
You and your fellow Trumpies fell for the most obvious con man in the history of American politics. You installed a crime family in the White House – money laundering, collusion with hostile powers, graft, at the very least. A known, proven fraud – see 25 million dollar Trump U settlement. A known, demonstrated creep. Astoundingly incompetent. Easily the most dishonest administration in American history.
You’ve done long-term, possibly permanent damage to the United States and left us weaker and less stable and weakened around the world.
And you did it not because of some great crisis like Venezuela faces, but because you’re racist, misogynist, cruel, spiteful and deeply stupid.
So you don’t get to criticize anyone, anywhere. You are the World’s Dumbest Voters.
@michael reynolds
Let us get one thing straight. Anybody whose solution to the terrorist problem is nuking 10,000+ or 100,000+ of people for no other reason than they happen to have the same religion is a racist.
You are a filthy racist.
As to your much vaunted IQ. You are an idiot who has figured out how to sell books. You have understanding a single mathematical or scientific concept, and you are proud of this accomplishment.
I remember how you “schooled” me on foreign policy. Your expertise turned into a pile of shit like all your other predictions. Somehow, your superior intelligence failed you, or it was nonsense from the start.
Throwing shit everywhere and getting your way is over. Stomp, pout, bang your head on the floor, it is pointless, but you all are too stupid to realize it. Calling President Trump a crook is pointless, but if it makes you happy, flail away. Barrak “I’m not a crook” Obama is a different story.
Your time is over. You are on the wrong side of history, and you and your ilk have been relegated to the garbage bin of history. You have three years and nine months to go, and if the impossible happens a second time, you will have another four years.
You should declare DefCon 1, and/or you should leave the US.
Venezuela’s problems were caused by an attempt to create a socialist paradise, and the predicted outcome has been validated.
The Russophobe worries that Trump has left America “weaker”, too weak in fact to do anymore installations of puppet regime attempts as in Libya, Syria, Iraq….might as well mention Mossadegh in Iran, long history there.
Yes, by all means let’s hope Trump has left the Empire too weak to
Police State (wreak havoc) from Ukraine to Baghdad.
As Ian Welsh regularly points out the neolibs by ignoring the interests of the Euro working class opened the door for nativists, although I concede Trump is no coherent Pat Buchanan, but we just might need a little inchoate incoherence to stymie the “strength” we’ve shown the world in Iraq, Libya and , to take one from the grab bag, Hillary’s Honduras crime.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/why-is-kim-jong-un-our-problem/
Since I mention Buchanan.