Trump seriously wanted to invade Venezuela last year

The President of the United States has repeatedly called upon meetings, the Venezuelan President sees his warnings of a confirmed invasion

Venezuelan President Nicolaus Maduro since his inauguration as swearing that states States plan a coup d'état Design change. Even his predecessor Chavez had repeatedly made politics, in fact, he was also briefly victim of a coup d'etat, in which even US circles pulled the strings. Maduro was elected with a narrow margin in 2013, the opposition won parliamentary elections and the country plunged into a serious and permanent crisis. Maduro continued to hold power in 2017 by convening a Constituent Assembly. In an early presidential election, he won again. In 2017, the United States imposed sanctions on Maduro, who was called a dictator, and many countries, including the EU, did not recognize the election.

Instead of sanctions, US President Donald Trump. It became known in August 2017 that Trump said in an interview with reporters that he did not rule out a "military option". "We have a lot of options on Venezuela, it's our neighbor," he said, referring to the size of the US military. "We are all over the world and we have troops all over the world in very far away places, Venezuela is not far, people are suffering and dying, we have many options, including a possible military mission , if necessary. "

For Maduro, this threat became a reality and strengthened its position. But at the time, it was unclear how serious the thought was, that is, if it was not just said, as it is sometimes the case with Trump without having any other consequences. But now the AP news agency reports in reference to an unnamed informant that Trump seriously put this into play because he had mentioned the military option several times in the White House.

First, he should do it at a meeting on August 10th. at the White House with councilors and then Foreign Minister Tillerson and then security advisor McMaster. In the discussion on sanctions, he asks why one can not just invade the country and refers to the intervention in Grenada under Ronald Reagan and Panama under George. H. W. Bush. McMaster and others have discouraged military action from being able to retaliate and risk losing the support of other Latin American countries against Venezuela.

Nevertheless, Trump spoke of the military option to reporters the next day, although his advisers warned him he returned there shortly after meeting with the Colombian president and three other heads of Latin American government, which two government employees, again anonymous, confirmed. Everyone should have rejected a military intervention. And at a dinner with the Colombian president and other Latin American allies at the UN General Assembly in September, he again asked what they thought of military intervention. They again denied this, and McMaster reportedly told Trump the dangers of a vision

. For Maduro, the AP report is affirmative. He said on Wednesday that some thought it was a lie that the United States was threatening Venezuela and were seeking oil resources. The United States was pursuing a "supremacist and criminal ideology", including the "mbadacres" in Panama and Granada. talked. Maduro called on the armed forces to be alert and ready to protect the country's sovereignty. A military invasion is not a solution for the country, Venezuela has the right to solve its problems with its own methods. He also criticized the fact that Trump wanted to put pressure on other heads of government.

Dioscado Cabello Rondón, president of the Constituent Assembly (ANC), announced that those who have requested an intervention or invasion must be treated as enemies of the state, traitors and allies of the forces of invasion. A commission is supposed to investigate in order to publicly expose "traitors to the motherland", and sometimes it is necessary to lay charges.

Donald Trump got another foreign minister and another security advisor. to act.
( Florian Rötzer )