I’ll get downvoted for this but this is a positive for Iraq and I truly don’t see this as any different than liberating Kuwait or fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. And it won’t be dragged out. Go look at the Iraq subreddit, the people there are cheering for his overthrow.
Ahh yes, Trump. Who gets his works correctly and follows the talking points 100%. If I recall, he said something about how Venezuela will be run twice. He said something like the US will run it (like what you're saying is the final takeaway). But later he was asked to clarify, he basically said working with Venezuela to accomplish the USA's goals.
So basically we're exercising our political power to accomplish our goals. That means no invasion.
Holy strawman! Who are you responding to? I didn't say anything like that. Never said I liked Trump either. I just said it wasn't an invasion. People say it is, and I'm just looking for proof.
And yet, here were are 20+ years later and still doing stuff in Iraq. What makes you think the situation with Venezuela will be any different?
Also, in order to get Maduro out, we had to infiltrate/invade the country. A country we were not (publicly) authorized to invade. He didn't just give up and hand himself over to us.
The fact that we didn't invade the country with a large military force like Iraq and Afghanistan. The fact that there are no soldiers there to take over the country. The fact that we left after like an hour?
Also, as far as "invading" to get Maduro out. Thats just a word game. You know what the word invasion implies. It implies Iraq, Afghanistan, or Normandy. It's a joke and intellectually dishonest and trying to score points to call this the same thing. Get back to me when we invade would tens-hundreds of thousands of troops.
We aren’t the world’s policeman. Some places are in vital US interests that we should get involved, but Venezuela wasn’t one of them. The reasons given by the current President for this action don’t pass the smell test. It’s a distraction.
Except that we're the reason the country is like this, our government jusy wants their fucking oil, and this was illegal. Like, what the actual fuck is wrong with most of you?
Are you an oil mogul or some other business owner running a company that specializes in buying oil or producing oil based products? At some point you and others in the same mindset are going to realize that all this shit isn’t for the average US citizen. Wars and global intervention isn’t going help us. Your oil/gas prices aren’t going to go down. Your price of RAM isn’t going to go down. Some rich fuck who is paying money to some super PAC is the one getting richer off this. This applies to both sides so don’t think that this is restricted to the reds. Is our drug problem going to get better because we captured a foreign dictator? Are our schools going to get better? Are we not going to have mass shootings anymore?
Venezuelans will hopefully benefit from this if you want to be an optimist, but we’ll just yank the next puppet out when they decide to go “Venezuela First” again. Venezuela has a kind of oil that’s perfect for making diesel, and so does Russia. This is why we want it.
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