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A different one than exists today. Not the same government as last week, with just a different person serving as President. A different government. Because with the current regime, it is to their advantage to have a strong relationship with China and an adversarial posture towards the United States.
100% wrong. Know what dictators like more than anything? Being dictators. As in, keeping their heads affixed to their shoulders and/or not worrying about bending down for the soap in a US prison.
You seem to want to insist on ignoring what just happened down there - we swatted aside their entire security apparatus and did what we wanted. How’s China going to stop that?
They've walked that back, which leaves us no closer to achieving any of our objectives than we were a few days ago.
I love the dichotomy of “everything Trump does makes us infinitely worse the second he does it” coupled with this expectation of the Most Perfect Outcome the second Trump does the very same thing that was doomed to failure. Talk about having it both ways!
These things take time. Recall that Maduro was in contact with US officials for some time about his exit plan. Welp, he refused, and so his “exit plan” was a 1-way ticket to Riker’s Island.
Now his veep is the Next Contestant on Let’s Make a Deal. Neither one of us knows what dirt we have on her but I think it’s very likely the answer is nonzero.
She has options.
But this doesn't do that
By itself? No. But it’s step 1.
If we followed tue left wing playbook in 10 years China would have a full naval base and would own most of the place. Glad we’re not on that trajectory anymore.
And if you push back on that notion I’d humbly suggest you go look at a map. Geography matters and we’re in a race with them of sorts.
