{"id":45903,"date":"2019-05-03T11:49:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45903"},"modified":"2019-05-03T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:49:57","slug":"top-u-s-officials-gather-to-discuss-military-options-in-venezuela-as-russia-warns-of-grave-consequences-if-america-invades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45903","title":{"rendered":"Top U.S. Officials Gather To Discuss \u201cMilitary Options\u201d In Venezuela As Russia Warns Of \u201cGrave Consequences\u201d If America Invades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Top U.S. Officials Gather To Discuss \u201cMilitary Options\u201d In Venezuela As Russia Warns Of \u201cGrave Consequences\u201d If America Invades<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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On Wednesday afternoon, senior U.S. officials gathered at the White House to discuss possible military options for Venezuela.  Meanwhile, the Russians are warning of grave consequences if the U.S. invades, and so the stage is being set for a potential showdown between the world\u2019s two foremost military powers.  Previously, administration officials had hoped that the Venezuelan people would rally around Juan Guaido to such a degree that it would not require military intervention to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but that hasn\u2019t happened.  In fact, Guaido\u2019s big push to start a revolution in the streets over the past few days has ended up being a total flop.  The following comes from Yahoo News<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guaido had called for the \u201clargest march\u201d in Venezuela\u2019s history and said on Twitter that \u201cmillions of Venezuelans\u201d were in the streets in \u201cthis final phase\u201d of his move to oust Maduro.<\/p>

But by late afternoon, many of the protesters in the capital Caracas were drifting home.<\/p>

Despite Guaido\u2019s calls for the military to support him, the armed forces leadership has so far remained loyal to Maduro, who has been in power since 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In the long-term, the situation in Venezuela isn\u2019t going to change much if the U.S. is able to replace one socialist president (Maduro) with another socialist president (Guaido).  Socialism always ends badly, and the people of Venezuela are going to have to decide for themselves that they don\u2019t want socialism any longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that isn\u2019t what this is about.\u00a0 U.S. officials have decided that it is time to impose their will on the people of Venezuela, and they have determined that Maduro must go.\u00a0 If Guaido cannot create a successful internal revolution, then other options will be explored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Top U.S. Officials Gather To Discuss \u201cMilitary Options\u201d In Venezuela As Russia Warns Of \u201cGrave Consequences\u201d If America Invades On Wednesday afternoon, senior U.S. officials gathered at the White House to discuss possible military options for Venezuela.  Meanwhile, the Russians are warning of grave consequences if the U.S. invades, and so the stage is being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21635,19769,7844,4487,4901,12750,10475,14733,694,7452,10522,851,862,25772,14454,1823],"class_list":["post-45903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-21635","tag-bolton","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-bolton","tag-michael-snyder","tag-pain","tag-painful","tag-president-trump","tag-russia","tag-the-economic-collapse-blog","tag-trump","tag-venezuela","tag-war","tag-war-in-2019","tag-war-with-russia","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45904,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45903\/revisions\/45904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}