HAVING MADE VENEZUELA HIS FOLLY, TRUMP ACTUALLY GOT SOMETHING VERY RIGHT

Now I stand by my analysis Venezuela will remain a folly for Trump.  But having made Venezuela his folly he did get the biggest issue right, and for that he gets a hat off.

George W. Bush upon entering Iraq fired the entire military and law enforcement infrastructure.  This gave us ISIS and a lot of other groups who fought us for years.

Trump effectively kept all of Maduro's machine on the payroll, and now instead of fighting us, they work for Trump.

If we want to be fair, we have to be able to say when Trump does something right. 

Now Trump can mess this up if he fails to understand how China is creating the Pan African movement, which has poor countries financing development using their natural resources.  China gets first shot at buying key natural resources, and then the money goes to pay for the massive infrastructure development funded by China.  The Pan African countries are not going into debt.  They have taken back their natural resources, and are using the projected revenues to build roads, powerplants, hospitals, universities and schools.  These countries have pulled out of the IMF.

China is in South American doing the same with countries with large amounts of key natural resources.  These countries are moving forward.  They own their natural resources with a guarantee purchase from China.  They use these funds to finance development. 

If Trump fails to understand this model, his folly will only become worse.