In bad country the “opposition” news paper publishes full throated support for invading other countries

But the larger challenge posed by Maduro’s regime is that it is both an importer and exporter of instability.

Nothing says stability like invading another country and installing a puppet government. Just look at how stable Libya is!

Economic sanctions against the regime in Trump’s first term have worked about as well as economic sanctions usually do — immiserating ordinary people while allowing the regime to entrench itself through its control of ever-scarcer goods. The Biden administration sought détente with the regime by easing some of those sanctions, only to reinstate them after concluding that Maduro had reneged on promises of democratic reforms…

Is there a moral case for regime change? Outside of North Korea, few governments have produced more misery for more of their own people than Venezuela’s. Starvation

So there’s a moral case to invade Venezuela because of the starvation going on, that he just admitted is the result of the economic sanctions. Almost as if the moral case here is for ending the sanctions.

Maduro’s better-armed forces might put up a serious fight. Or they could retreat to the hinterland and start an insurgency, perhaps by joining up with the narco-insurgents across the border in Colombia.

"Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that”

What is to be done?

“If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna,” Napoleon is said to have told one of his generals. Same for Caracas, Mr. President.

Whatever did happen to that Napoleon guy?

Silence, bedbug.

The second is to use a show of force to persuade Maduro and his senior officials to flee the country, much as Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and his cronies did.

Bedbug: “I think the migrant crisis is bad, so what if we had a Syrian Civil War in Venezuela to stop it?”

I wonder what he tells himself happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. Like, I cannot construct in my mind the vision of victory he must hold in his blood-soaked bug heart to write words like this with anything but embarrassment.

NYT busily at work manufacturing consent. Again.

Folks my bingo card of “America invading a country” is getting perilously full.

Once again we see the consequences of not completely purging US media and politics of the Iraq warmongers

I don’t want to spend the next 18 hours [FEDPOST REDACTED] so I’m not going to read this

impossible to make me hate the NYT more than I already do but every day they roll up their sleeves and try their best

I hope Bret Stephens doesn’t die of old age.

The case for overthrowing Bret Stephens

put a gun in his hands, strap a parachute on him (or don’t, I’m not giving orders here) and push him out the back of a plane near the venezuelan coast

VILenin: The Case for Permanently Banning Bret Stephens from Touching a Keyboard and Forcing Him to Paint Road Markings for Eighteen Hours a Day Every Day for the Rest of His Life