On Saturday, Trump told us that he was going to run Venezuela, and that we were taking the oil. Yesterday, Marco Rubio said we were not going to occupy the country; we would merely maintain our blockade and coerce the remnants of the old regime to do our bidding.
The Rubio version of the plan is a return to the tactics before the attack. If he’s right, and no occupation is contemplated, what was the point of killing scores of Venezuelans and Cubans? Just to prove to unfriendly leaders that we can?
What’s the real plan, Stan?