Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

It's not really covert if you just authorized it out in the open like that. Morons...

Shh, just don't tell anybody.
- This is funny, but just to keep things somewhat accurate the article says
  The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader.
  [Ital. added]
  This means multiple people who are "need to know" on this are frustrated enough with the situation that they're leaking it to NYT, but the fact that that's happening is just more evidence for the same basic conclusion - they're a bunch of morons.

Aren't non-covert covert operations basically just acts of war?

Covert actions are also acts of war, but the plausible deniability can be used by both sides as an off-ramp from further escalation.
Trump needs a war and a fight with us (Canada) wasn't really being bought by Americans :/

i think im out of the loop here, but why does the american government hate venezuela all of a sudden?

Been ongoing since the 2000s when Venezuelan people elected Hugo Chavez, a left-wing populist politician. He nationalized Venezuela's oil industry and kicked the American oil extraction companies out so that Venezuela could sell their own oil and keep the money it generates. Since then the US has carried out an economic war on Venezuela with sanctions, embargoes, coup attempts and sporadic military action. This has resulted in extreme instability and poverty in Venezuela, and downstream of that it has increased government corruption and created a migrant crisis out of the country that has further exacerbated tensions between Venezuela and the US.
- It’s worth noting the Chavez and Maduro admins have had a lot of people at PVDSA who have a lot of money that they should not have. There is clear corruption within the Venezuelan government so the nationalization wasn’t putting money in the pockets of your average citizen.
They made Venezuelan gangs out to be the big bogeyman without actually producing any actionable evidence or results, so they have to escalate or lose traction on the fear mongering
They're brown and have oil. It's that simple.
I don't know much about it but Venezuela has long had a left-wing authoritarian government that is not well disposed towards the USA, being exactly the kind of government the USA always tries to overthrow. It also has a lot of oil.
- It only has that because we've been fucking with their government for decades.
  They also nationalized their oil production and kicked US oil companies out, which is the real reason we keep fucking with them.
Too brown. /j
- Nope, they have too much oil and a penchant for theft of resources from PVDSA.
All of a sudden? It happened when Chavez was elected and he nationalized a lot of industry that American companies owned.
- All leftist leaders are illegitimate according to the US government. Then you get a guy like Pinochet who terrorised his people with US backing - completely legitimate.
  Whatever people say about Maduro, a precedent has long been set when it comes to forcible removal of a leader and their replacement with a pro-US leader. It does not work out well for anyone except corrupt military juntas and US corporations.
Started right after putin and trump met

I mean, we’ve been doing stuff there for decades.. doesn’t even know what’s going on

Doing this after Venezuela recently foiled bombing attempts and other terrorism in their country is certainly an optics strategy. Well, I'm sure they weren't doing this before!

We tried this shit already while all you boomer fucks were still fucking alive. Adults, even. Are you so stupid that you can’t even learn from your own mistakes, Republicans?

But.. what if we tried with much less competent or sane leadership

Either it's an act of war or a smokescreen for something worse…or both…

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Every day I worry about Venezuela. Epstein files?

Venezuela should put a bullet in the head of anyone who supports the Trump administration just in case.