Dear U.S. Citizens

Takeaway from the national news is that Venezuelan Canadians are very happy with this for better or worse they are partying in the streets.(In Edmonton of all places -14 ) Another takeaway was from a political commentator/professor that thinks a big part is that the Chinese were moving in with Belt and Road projects and the US and many other countries in this hemisphere do not want such influence so close to home or give them easy access to all that oil.

Any short-term, positive outcomes are purely incidental. As Colin Powell said about the Pottery Barn Rule at the outset of the Iraq war in 2003, "you break it, you bought it."