Venezuela and Our Dumb and Dumber Foreign Policy

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OK, Venezuela and our dumb and dumber foreign policy. Let me put it this way. If I was going to ask you, you’re what you are on a, you know, some sort of game show and you were asked to. Articulate American foreign policy. What are how about this? What are our guiding principles?

when it comes to American foreign policy and how we handle countries around the globe? How would you answer that? One word comes to mind, chaos. Because that’s what it is. It’s chaotic. We don’t have any guiding principles. It’s shoot from the hip. It’s perpetual doing the same thing.

over and over again and expecting different results. I wanna talk a little bit about Venezuela. Republican Senator from the great state of Florida, Marco Rubio had a op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal talking about Biden and how he’s gone soft on Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Again, we told you this was gonna happen. We told you this was gonna happen.

wasn’t that long ago when there was stickers at the pumps here in this country, we have Biden pointing at the price of gas. He said, I did that. And he did everything and anything he could. It was bad politically to have gasoline prices up where they were, tapped out, went into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, also cut a deal with Venezuela where we lifted sanctions

on many things in Venezuela with the promise, Maduro promised that he was going to hold a free election. Pinky promise! It’s a pinky promise that he gave us. I mean, did we really think that was going to happen?

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Again, maybe they are that dumb, but I’m going to go off on a limb here and I’m going to say, it’s none of our damn business what goes on in Venezuela. That’s their country. And that’s that’s, you know, again, you know, we’ve been dealing with Venezuela since, well, remember Chavez came in late.

I can’t, was it 98, 99? I can’t even remember when. And then there was some supposed coup that we tried to instigate there. I think it was probably 2001 at some point in time. I remember that. And, you know, there’s been Chavez and now he died and now there is Maduro. So they, they kicked Marie-Karina Machado.

off the ballot. They’re prohibiting her from running for the next 15 years. And Marco Rubio is not happy about that. Also, his thugs have persecuted her team and vandalized her campaign headquarters.

Okay, I don’t agree with that either, Marco, but I don’t know. Let’s take a good look in the mirror here in the United States. Correct me if I’m wrong. Didn’t Colorado just bar Donald Trump from the ballot in that state and the same thing happened in Maine too?

You had to hold people in glass houses, maybe shouldn’t be throwing stones. I just throw that out there.

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Throwing it out there. Again, we’ve got enough logs in our eye, I’m gonna go to the Bible and that, that maybe we should just keep our mouths shut when it comes to the internal affairs of other countries, unless of course they are somehow going to endanger us. Again, let’s talk about how disjointed our foreign policy is. Again, I’m all about, you have to defend this country.

We are very lucky in regards to the fact that we have a massive ocean on both sides. We have Canada to the north. We have Mexico to the south. No real fear of being encircled by anyone. I don’t know if you’ll mind, most people don’t even remember this.

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China invaded Vietnam because after we pulled out of Vietnam, where the Chinese was helping the Viet Cong in regards to that, the Vietnamese signed a deal with Russia, the Soviet Union at the time. And most people don’t really teach this. China was a hell of a lot more concerned about the Soviet Union than they were the United States.

A hell of a lot more concern. That’s why, again, they had continued to reach out to us in order to basically, you know, push back against Soviet expansion. That’s what really, that’s what they were really afraid of. Anyway, neither here nor there. Vietnam was in Laos, again, involved in Cambodia, all these other things. And China wanted no part of it. And they invaded it. Again, they deemed it as a security threat. You mean to tell me?

Senator Ruby and others that Venezuela is this real big security threat to the United States. Sorry, I’m not buying it. Right now the Biden administration put sanctions again on Venezuela’s state-owned gold mining company. And I guess he’s waiting until April to restore sanctions on oil and gas.

Again, that’s, you know, and their entire oil and gas industry is in disrepair. It’s a mess. It’s falling apart. One could argue that Venezuela exports, you know, greatest export at this point in time is either beauty queens. They always seem to win those beauty contests all the time, don’t they? Beauty queens and baseball players. Anyway, so again.

You know, Marco Rubio in his op-ed today says, oh, it’s going to give Maduro two months to shore up his tyranny.

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So it’s the same damn government that’s been there since the late 1990s. All you think this next couple months is going to make him that much stronger. Oh, he’s going to be able to sell sanction free natural gas.

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you know, spare me. All right, and then he talks about Biden’s weak response. Yeah, yeah, it’s a weak response because if you say you’re gonna do something and you don’t follow through, that’s a bit of a problem. But I like our presidents starting to say, you know what? We’re not gonna mess around the internal affairs of other countries. If the Venezuelan people, this is what they want, it’s theirs. If they wanna overthrow the government, have it.

How about it? We did.

Yeah, yeah, we did. And that’s why we’re here right now. We overthrew the most powerful military at the time in the entire world. And that’s why we’re the United States of America. So, you know, I’m just saying, you know, it’s not in my business, what goes on in Venezuela. And one can make the argument. One can make the argument here. And this is what Rubio says in his article.

because saying that people within the Biden administration with socialist leanings are saying that we’re having the migrant crisis, all of these migrants coming in from Venezuela because of the sanctions, not Mr. Maduro’s repressive regime. Marco, it could be a little bit of both, big guy.

It could be a little bit of both and he’s concerned, concerned that, oh, now because of this, Iran, Russia, and China are gonna get a foothold in Venezuela. Well, listen, maybe if we were doing business there, maybe if we were doing business there and conducting trade with them and not having sanctions, maybe they wouldn’t get a foothold there.

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I mean, correct me if I’m wrong. Yeah, it’s a socialist repressive regime, but we do business with these guys all over the world, do we not?

Do we not have factories and plants set up in China, in Vietnam? I get it, nothing in whack job land over there in North Korea. But these wonderful sanctions that we’ve put on countries in our hemisphere, Cuba and Venezuela, the same too. Can anybody tell me what has been achieved?

You know, to quote the Super Bowl weekend, the great Bill Parcells, you are what your record says you are. What has been achieved with these sanctions? So Rubio goes on, he says, “‘If we continue to appease Mr. Maduro, “‘our hemisphere will become more dangerous “‘and more anti-American.'” Margaret, do explain. Do explain how our…

area of the world is going to become more anti-American if we stop putting pressure on these countries. I don’t care if they’re freaking left-wing loons. They want to destroy their own country. Let them destroy it! They’re crying out loud. It’s the same feeling I have here in the United States. If the state of California wants to run itself into the ground, have at it.

That’s your choice!

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I don’t understand why we got to be involved in any of this. I really don’t. Again, if it’s a national security threat of some way, shape, manner, or form, which we all know Venezuela’s not, and they’re talking about, well, he might invade Guyana next door. Well, that’s a different story. You just say, hey, listen, don’t do that. Or I wouldn’t suggest doing that. And again, going back to a non-interventionist

foreign policy, do business, everything else that you guys have tried hasn’t worked. It hasn’t. You want to spread our way of life, which we’re quite frankly, like I said, we got a lot of logs to remove from our eyes at this point in time. You be that example. You be that shining city on.

the hill and then people will say, I want that.

I want that amazing, you know, take a look at China, for example, take a look, it’s world’s second largest economy, world’s second largest economy. And you don’t see people banging down their doors, migrants to get in. The only ones that would actually do that if they could would be North Koreans, because, you know, it’s less oppressive than it is there.

It’s so great over, I mean for crying out loud, I mean, China, you wanna fix your economy, you got all these empty housing units. We’ve talked about this on the podcast. Make them say, hey, you know what? We’ll take all these migrants that are coming up through Mexico. We’ll bring them here to China and have them come over here. You know what you think they’re gonna go there?

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Just set an example, okay? This entire nonsensical neocon crap that’s been shoved down our throats for years in both the left and right. Where’s it gotten us, huh? Dumb and dumber, elephants, donkeys. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.