Veterans Call on U.S. Troops to Resist Illegal Orders to Invade Venezuela

[Judi Lynn]

President Donald Trump has called on Venezuelan soldiers to disobey orders and join coup perpetrators headed by U.S.-backed opposition leader, Juan Guaidó. If they do not do this, President Trump threatened: "You will find no safe harbor, no easy exit and no way out. You will lose everything."

While President Trump speaks of supporting democracy in Venezuela and Latin America, the real purpose of the U.S. assault on the Venezuelan government is to fully open the vast Venezuelan oil reserves to U.S. and other Western oil corporations as well as to destroy progressive governments in Latin America that put their own peoples' needs above the profits of foreign corporations.

The Veterans For Peace Statement of Purpose states that, "we will work, with others both nationally and internationally:

1. To increase public awareness of the causes and costs of war
2. To restrain our governments from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations
3. To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons
4. To seek justice for veterans and victims of war
5. To abolish war as an instrument of national policy."

More:
https://www.veteransforpeace.org/our-work/position-statements/veterans-call-us-troops-resist-illegal-orders-invade-venezuela?fbclid=IwAR2kZik_fgo3LCJTuTMVHdDd8TvekeO4esOlaXxk1RqYWsUzD7B3P-XNFoY

[at140]

1. Foolish to invade Venezuela

Venezuela is imploding all by themselves. Can you believe gasoline is in short supply there now?

[MRubio]

2. Imploding perhaps, but short supply of gasoline?

I've not seen it, at least not yet. As recently as yesterday we filled up in El Tejero without a wait. Saw 4 other stations open with only one having a few cars waiting and that was in the middle of Punta de Mata where there's always a crowd to buy gasoline.

Also saw a few troop carriers. Unusual to say the least, though there was supposed to be some big military exercise underway to protect the nation's infrastructure. Sort of closing the barn door after the horse is long gone if you ask me.

[at140]

3. From a country with one of the largest oil reserves

and a huge oil exporter, now down to people lacking food and oil production has nose dived.

Hope the Venezuelan people see better days ahead.

[MRubio]

4. Technically, THE LARGEST OIL RESERVES IN THE WORLD

Having said that, most of it is slightly lighter than tar.

PDVSA is producing just over 1MM barrels/day down from several million barrels per day when Chavez was elected. Like everything else here, production is collapsing. I actually wonder if it'll get to zero.



That gasoline we talked about? The great majority of it is produced outside the country, paid for at world prices, and then basically given away here. What could go wrong with such a scheme?