Considering how Cuba and Russia are entrenched in Venezuela, there certainly are similarities with the situation in Grenada during the 1980s. And just like Grenada, the only way to fix it is to rid the country of the Cuban occupation.

Via Newsmax:

President Donald Trump should act on Venezuela’s dictatorship as Ronald Reagan did on Grenada’s in 1983, former CIA Director James Woolsey tells Newsmax TV.

Woolsey, appearing Friday on “Newsmax Now,” told host John Bachman that diplomacy should be tried first, of course, but that disputed president Nicolas Maduro or the reported 15,000 Cuban troops reported to be inside the country are likely to leave.

The presence of Cuban troops, Woolsey noted, is a clear violation of the charter of the Organization of American States.

“I think we’re not going to resolve the situation in Venezuela without getting rid of the Cuban occupiers, which is the backbone of Maduro and the totalitarian powers-that-be there,” he said.

“I would start by being friendly, by suggesting that the Cubans might want to leave, by suggesting that Maduro stand down and let the real president take over,” Woolsey said. “And then if they don’t do that — and they almost certainly will not — I don’t see a real alternative to using force in Venezuela, and I think the target is not the Venezuelan armed forces. They will swing with whoever is in control.”

If the United States is not willing to do in Venezuela what it did in Grenada the result will be a strategic Russian military base flying bombers out of Venezuela into Latin America as well as other “dominating steps,” Woolsey warned.

“The Cubans and the Russians are in bed together on this, and diplomacy is not going to work,” he said. “They want to dominate part of the Western Hemisphere, and this is their step in that direction.”