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Trump is giving up on regime change in Venezuela because it's complicated and he got bored, report s
Tom Porter 7h
President Donald Trump is losing interest in Venezuela after a bid to remove President Nicolás Maduro failed, officials told The Washington Post.
In April, a US-backed bid by the Venezuelan opposition to remove Maduro failed, when senior Venezuelan government and military officials reneged on promises to switch sides and instead stood by the president.
According to US officials who spoke with The Post, Trump had viewed the prospect of a US-backed toppling of Maduro as an "easy win" at a time when other foreign-policy initiatives had stalled.
A former administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the publication that Trump had always thought of Venezuela as "low-hanging fruit" on which he "could get a win and tout it as a major foreign policy victory."
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https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bored-of-venezuela-as-maduro-clings-to-power-report-2019-6
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Trump is giving up on regime change in Venezuela because it's complicated and he got bored, report s (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jun 2019
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Eugene
(61,592 posts)1. ... and besides that, Putin put his foot down.
procon
(15,805 posts)2. Trump plays checkers while other world leaders
are strategizing 3 dimensional chess matches. He's been outclassed by everyone, and now he been outplayed even by Maduro.
LOSER!
trev
(1,480 posts)3. "an 'easy win'"
Trump is always looking for the easy win. He's too lazy to put forth any real effort, and too feeble minded to come up with genuinely creative solutions.
hlthe2b
(101,705 posts)4. People are starving in Venezuela with no end to suffering and all he thinks of are "bragging rights"
He and his crew are really irredeemable.