President Donald Trump mused about the idea of using “military force” to help bolster the U.S.’ current attempt to mold regime change in Venezuela via diplomatic and economic methods, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Axios Sunday.
“What do you think about using military force?” Graham relayed that the President asked him.
“And I said, ‘Well, you need to go slow on that, that could be problematic,’” Graham remembered.
“And he said, ‘Well, I’m surprised, you want to invade everybody,’” Trump replied, prompting Graham to laugh and say “I don’t want to invade everybody, I only want to use the military when our national security interests are threatened.”
As Axios points out, the lack of defense officials left who push back against Trump’s instincts coupled with a string of domestic failures may be prompting the President to look overseas for possible wins.
Ah, we have now arrived at our “Wag The Dog” moment, I guess.
Spankee has been wanting to play soldiers for ages, now he sees his chance.
My guess is that this would go over like a lead balloon among the base – although I wouldn’t put a huge amount of money on this, knowing that logical thinking is not a strength among most of them.
We should take their oil.
It’s not surprising this pea-brain would want to start a war to improve his poll numbers. But he doesn’t have anywhere near the support he’d need in order to get away with it.
Substitute ‘republikkkan political power is threatened’ and you understand lindsey’s true beliefs. The abomination and the fascistgop need a major distraction at this point.
Well, since Venezuela is south of Normay, it might be a swell way for troops on leave to tour the Balkans