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We should just let China, Iran and Russia have a base there. They can run drugs, have terrorism base, Chinese listening posts and work to destabilize other countries in South America.
Again, this point is not about goals. It's not about whether it would be good to not have China or Russia have influence in Venezuela.
It's about whether that goal will be at all achieved simply by removing Maduro individually and browbeating oil companies, if we don't actually do the work of changing the regime - which otherwise remains completely intact.
It would be awesome if U.S. oil companies were to flood Venezuela with investment capital. But they're probably not going to. And if Trump's strategy for Venezuela relies heavily on the prospect of private oil companies lining up to invest many tens of billions of dollars in the country, then it's not going to work.
