Is Trump going after Venezuela because Maduro committed the ultimate sin—he wants to accept non-dollar currencies for Venezuela’s oil? From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
How many who voted for Trump would have voted for him if Trump had told them they’d get more new wars?
We are apparently on the cusp of another one, with Venezuela. It has the ring-echo of Ronald Reagan’s war with Grenada, if anyone remembers that. That war was more like a stomp – of a Caribbean island that was a nation in the same sense that a kid’s lemonaid stand is a business. Anyhow, Reagan didn’t run on ending wars. Trump did. So why is he starting them – and why with Venezuela?
Two reasons come to mind – and there are probably others.
The first is that Trump sees war – as all Maximum Leader types do – as good because it tends to rouse the manufactured patriotism of the populace, which serves to distract them from the problems besetting them and to get them to forget that the Maximum Leader is the cause of their problems. Herman Goring had much to say about this. The Chimp may have actually read about what Goring said, or had Dick Cheney read it to him.
Republican voters – in the main – are very susceptible to War Fever. This ought not to be especially surprising given the origins of the Republican Party, which was founded by the man who waged war against Americans who foolishly took seriously that stuff about self-government and consent of the governed. Lincoln and the Republicans schooled Americans about the truth of that, to the accompaniment of belligerent, crusader anthems – My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!
Saddam did the same thing.
Even a SDR is too much for the fiat uber alles crowd.