No. of Recommendations: 24
For months it was “Drugs!Drugs!Drugs!”.
The new message, announced late this morning is “Oil!Oil!Oil!”
Lost in the shuffle- the “peace president” just did in Venezuela what Putin has tried to do in Ukraine.
We’ve just taken over another country. As Trump said today, “We’re going to run this country”- with some undisclosed “group” of country runners.
Machado? Nah. Trump said he really hasn’t been talking to the woman who actually defeated Maduro at the polls.
Welcome to the opening chapter of the next book in the series “Unintended Consequences”.
While it is undoubtedly true that you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs, it is also true that broken eggs do not insure the creation of an omelette.
Sometimes, all you end up with is broken eggs, salmonella poisoning and a lawsuit.
Meanwhile, the major news channels are ooh-ing and awe-ing over the technical proficiency of those who broke the eggs.
It was quite the technological feat, to be sure. Just as watching the German blitzkrieg in 1939 Poland was an impressive thing.
The unintended consequences of that particular display didn’t come home to roost for another five and a half years.
