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I'm not wihout reservations, but I generally think this is a good thing, for Venezuela, for millions of Venezuelans forced to flee in the last 20 years and now living in Colombia, the U.S., and elsewhere worldwide.
Trump and secretary of state Rubio have expressed a commitment to steering Venezuela beyond the crisis period, to restoration and long term prosperity.
It's good for the U.S. too, because it stops drug trafficking and human trafficking into the U.S., and further deters traffickers in Mexico, Colombia, China, and Iran.
And it begins to close the door for hostile foreign powers that have been entrenching themselves for 20 years or more in Central and South America, such as Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, ISIS and Al Qaida.
Trump has this innovative outlook to foreign policy, of doing an across the board full press on these hostile nations worldwide all a once, that weakening each weakens all the others.
And especially, the need to re-establish the Monroe Doctrine and push these hostile foreign powers entirely out of this hemisphere.
A number of CIA officials, military generals, and other foreign policy experts interviewed in the last few days have been saying since the Meduro capture that if communism in Venezuela falls, an already unstable Cuban communist government (that is dependent on its ties to Venezuela) will fall too.
And will finally snuff out communism in Nicaragua too.
And China's relationship with other countries in the Caribbean and South America will fade away too. South American nations have for years already been uncomfortable with China's over-reach in their countries, and will pull away and rally to a Trump-led U.S. ascendancy in the Americas.
I don't like the idea presented of allowing Meduro's vice president to remain in power. She is just as illegitimate in the last stolen 2024 election as Meduro is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election The logical person to allow to take power in Venezuela are the elected president Edmundo Gonzalez, and VP Corina Machado (who was manipulated by the corrupt Venezuelan legal system from being able to run for president, forcing her to instead drop to being the VP candidate). I hope that the possibility of keeping Meduro's VP (Delcy Rodriguez) in power is just something that is only being discussed out of fairness of considering all options, and does not actually come to pass.
And since Corina Machado has global approval and just won the Nobel Peace Prize several months ago, and the actual winner in Venezuela's 2024 election, I don't see much if any resistance by nations worldwide to her being installed as the legitimate elected leader that she is. . And if anyone needs confirmation of that, they could just hold another election in Venezuela to verify it
The illegiimate 2024 election in Venezuela has remarkable similarities to the illegitimate election of Joe Biden in 2020. And also to the 2022 illegitimate election of Lula in Brazil.
In each, the conservative was winning by a good margin well into the evening of the election, then in the very late evening and morning a highly questionable injection of votes turned the election overnight, and the liberal/Leftist candidate in each was narrowly declared the winner.
And there were in each irregularities, and resistance to any recount.
And in each, legal threats and imprisonment to any who voiced opposition to the election's legitimacy, even on social media. Not just to voters, but also threats to government leaders who challenged the outcome. And Bolsanaro is now under house arrest in Brazil, as are many of his supporters and cabinet members.
Among others interviewed about the Venezuela events, I just saw Rep Salazar (R-FL) interviewed earlier on Newsmax, who was one of the co-founders of Univision, before she left news and ran for office, and she said without Trump, Venezuela would never have been able to get rid of Meduro. This is someone who understands politics, who understands the media (and the state abuse of it in Venezuela) and understands Latin America from covering it intimately for decades. And she has great optimism about Meduro's removal.
And that none of this would have been possible under any other U.S. president.
