Even though the United States is facing unemployment levels not seen since the Great Depression, we somehow still have the resources to try and overthrow governments we don’t like.

AFP:

Two Americans were detained in Venezuela on Monday on suspicion of plotting to topple President Nicolas Maduro’s government, which has accused US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido of bankrolling the scheme.

The arrests came a day after the government said it foiled an “invasion” from the sea, killing eight assailants and capturing two others.

Maduro appeared on state television to show the passports of Luke Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41, and told the Venezuelan military high command that the pair were members of the US security forces.

Attorney General Tarek William Saab earlier told reporters that “hired mercenaries” had signed a $212 million dollar contract with Guaido using funds “stolen” from state oil company PDVSA.

The United States — one of more than 50 countries backing Guaido as Venezuela’s acting president as he challenges Maduro for power — has slapped sanctions on PDVSA and allowed Guaido to use funds from frozen accounts belonging to the firm’s Houston-based subsidiary Citgo.

I’m not sure what is going on with this, but there is clearly a continued push by the United States government to try and oust Nicolas Maduro from power. They recently classified Maduro and other high level Venezuelan government officials as narco-terrorists. Donald Trump also ordered naval assets deployed near the coast of Venezuela under the guise of stopping drug traffickers.

All this chicanery is getting really stupid. We don’t need our military involved in any more misadventures around the world and we don’t need any more retarded CIA plots to overthrow governments.

Donald Trump ran for the presidency in 2016 on a platform of ending all this bullshit and he has failed to deliver. All we get is talk and when he actually goes to do something substantive he either doesn’t follow through or he is prevented from following through.

He’s saying he had nothing to do with this botched Venezuela operation which I have a hard time believing.

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