It's NOT Venezuela....The Goal is regime change CUBA!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

Lawrence O'Donnell is right on with this bit of FACT. Marco Rubio and Republicans have been salivating for 65 years of invading and taking over Cuba. Cuba is the dream. Venezuela is the rehearsal.

[Lovie777]

1. By starting a war?..................

[Raven123]

2. I don't know. Practicing in Venezuela for Cuba?

Would invading Cuba be a larger, more complex endeavor? Something seems off

[LeftinOH]

3. It would be a deadly mistake; Cubans would fight like hell. n/t

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Something Lawrence said about Trump...

"Donald Trump doesn't even know that Guantanamo Bay IS in Cuba!" when referring to a Military Base in Cuba.

He also tore a new one to Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio in regards to their being "pets" to Trump.

[cab67]

5. I usually find Lawrence O'Donnell insightful...

...but I'm not sure I agree with him this time.

This would be like saying the 1989 military intervention in Panama to arrest Manuel Noriega was a warm-up for the Gulf War. They were entirely different operations requiring very different plans. (Not saying I agreed with either of them.)

Cuba and Venezuela aren't really comparable. Cuba can put up a pretty good defense, and it wouldn't be in-and-out for US forces. And its leadership isn't nearly as unpopular at home as Maduro. The orange hairball that walks as a man does may not get this, but the military surely does.

[Dan]

6. I may be wrong, going from memory but

Part of the agreement toward finding a solution to the Cuban Missile issue was that America would never invade Cuba under threat of nuclear war?

[bobalew]

7. I suspect this is AI.....

why "audio only"?

[Celerity]

8. It is from the official MS NOW Youtube account. It is not AI.

They often post audio only videos:

[Johonny]

9. The goal appears to be civl war in South America

I mean, if we steal the oil, which we are. Then they stop producing oil. Without oil, the economy collapses. The military and guerrilla forces engage in a regional conflict which may or not may spill over to other nations. The illegal drug trade becomes a primary industry and much like in Afghanistan becomes essentially legal and nessessary part of the economy.

Could democratic forces win out, maybe. But also it becomes Libya which is sort of not so good.

[Jacson6]

10. The Oligarchs gotta get those mafia casinos up and running.

They will be raking in the dough while cubans suffer.

[betsuni]

11. Trump thinks Venezuela stole American oil and Cuba took all its nice classic American cars.