Trump has said a lot of wild shit. You got any reason for thinking that statement was any more revealing of his inner soul than any other?
If you look at what he's actually done in military actions over the five years of his presidency or so, he draws down forces if he can, doesn't commit to anything new, and if something happens he bombs something. Houthis? Iran's nuclear reactors? Drug boats?
Anti-war doesn't mean anti-military-action. Up until now, Trump has been quite careful and diplomatic with military action, waffling and A-B testing until everyone's arguing. Sometimes he uses the pressure to do a deal (North Korea) and it never comes to strikes. Sometimes the deal is done after strikes (Iran). In my estimation, the drug boat thing is no different, he's pressuring Maduro and by extension the various South and Central American rulers to get control of the flows of people and drugs to the US.
If he puts line ground troops into Venezuela, I'm wrong. If he bombs a few things, ratchets up tensions, threatens regime change and then does a deal where he's shaking Maduro's hand on TV, I'm right.
Edit: The imaginary deal I'm teasing will probably not change much materially, but that isn't the point.
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Trump has said a lot of wild shit. You got any reason for thinking that statement was any more revealing of his inner soul than any other?
If you look at what he's actually done in military actions over the five years of his presidency or so, he draws down forces if he can, doesn't commit to anything new, and if something happens he bombs something. Houthis? Iran's nuclear reactors? Drug boats?
Anti-war doesn't mean anti-military-action. Up until now, Trump has been quite careful and diplomatic with military action, waffling and A-B testing until everyone's arguing. Sometimes he uses the pressure to do a deal (North Korea) and it never comes to strikes. Sometimes the deal is done after strikes (Iran). In my estimation, the drug boat thing is no different, he's pressuring Maduro and by extension the various South and Central American rulers to get control of the flows of people and drugs to the US.
If he puts line ground troops into Venezuela, I'm wrong. If he bombs a few things, ratchets up tensions, threatens regime change and then does a deal where he's shaking Maduro's hand on TV, I'm right.
Edit: The imaginary deal I'm teasing will probably not change much materially, but that isn't the point.
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