Crisis in Venezuela

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

i'm not against this but there are far worse dictators around the world who have full american support. sadly us foreign policy continues to be very hypocritical.

Most dictators don't ruin their country to the point that millions of people have to leave just to survive.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Blaming Venezuela's problems on American sanctions isn't at all convincing.  Pretty much every country past or present that has had similar sanctions or even more sever sanctions has managed to do much much better than Venezuela.  About the only country that I can think of that suffered even worse was North Korea after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

JA, the NCA was chosen in a most undemocratic way, with a third of its members elected not by the people as a whole but by organizations under the control of the kleptocracy.  Even if the opposition had participated in the elections for the NCA they would have had to have won three-fourths of the popularly elected members and trusted that kleptocracy wouldn't engage in vote fraud.  Considering the massive fraud that did take place to pad the numbers of voters way beyond those actually cast so as try and led a veneer of legitimacy to what happened, those fears were well justified.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Even if you don't recognize him as President of Venezuela, Guaidó is President of the National Assembly. So just calling him President without specifying what he is president of doesn't signify any particular position on what is the legitimate government of Venezuela.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Mexico previously offered to host bilateral talks, and yet Guaidó and the Opposition didn’t move to talks and then threw this. The very fact of the matter is that Guiadó has slightly more legitimacy than the GNA government in Tripoli, Libya. Both were propped up by people who knew nothing on the ground, and were not looking that there are serious issues with the factionalism in the movement. I expect the coup to fail in bringing stability and prosperity to Venezuela, only further contribute to its free fall.

For shame people wanting US intervention after decades of costly war and blowback back home. You only serve as useful idiots to Haliburton and other weaponry stockholders.

Halliburton stock has sucked in recent years but I'm thinking over the past month or so that they're looking like a good buy opportunity. I've been tempted to add them to my portfolio several times since March ngl.

Hopefully Halliburton comes out of the woods soon.

It's a bear in the woods market for Halliburton.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

America has not fought a war that we should have fought for except for maybeeee Afghanistan (and even then not to this crazy extent) since WW2.

The Korean was clearly justified as the North and the Commies were the clear aggressor. The only bad part was the North didnt fall as well which it would have if UN forces stopped after capturing Pyongyang instead of going to the Yalu River.

While getting a different Communist regime in a rump North Korea might have been possible had the UN not tried pushing to the Yalu, a total collapse just wasn't going to happen without that push.

Incidentally, Maduro's major concern isn't Guaidó per se but an internal coup that puts another PSUV member in nominal charge. That's the most likely outcome at this point in my opinion.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

In more informative matters, Venezuela reopens borders with Brazil and Aruba

But will Brazil or Aruba want those borders open? Trump isn't the only one who doesn't like refugees and Venezuela spits out a lot more of them than does Central America.