Subject: Re: Venezuela - Who and How
Lots of people are bent out of shape by this.

Okay, you're right. The Russians, Chinese, Cubans, Iranians and Hezbollah are all mad also.
Great company for the democrats to be in!

That's rather damaging to the rules-based system that protects territorial sovereignty - usually it's verboten to have your military go into another country's space.

You're aware that Maduro wasn't the lawfully elected ruler, right? And that we were executing what amounts to a really big arrest warrant, right?

But getting Maduro out of the country doesn't take Venezuela off the chess board.

I was speaking generally. Removing Venezuela does everything I said.

It'll take some time.

The military is still there, run by exactly the same personnel. Actually there are a fair bit fewer of them now and a lot of their toys are broken.

Here's another tidbit from Rubio that might help you:
Well, this is not about a legitimate president. We don't believe that this regime in place is legitimate via an election. And that's not just us. It's 60-some countries around the world that have taken that view as well, including the European Union. But we understand that there are people in Venezuela that, today, who are the ones that can actually make changes. For example, when we want to send in the migrant flights, even though we never recognized the Maduro regime as legitimate, we had to deal with the authorities that controlled the airports.

What does that tell you about the grip that Rodriguez has on her country?