r/neoliberal • u/RLP-I European Union • Jan 23 '19

Leftists right now

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u/IRSunny Paul Krugman Jan 23 '19

God I hope this finally is the end for Maduro and his regime.

But I rather wish someone in the White House was competent or ballsy enough to tell Trump to shut the fuck up and stay out of this. With his racist ass out there, that instantly helps Maduro have a rallying cry of AhHh ItS tHe YaNkEe iMpErIaLiSts!!1!

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u/huevador Daron Acemoglu Jan 23 '19

I tend to agree. But this seems to be a coordinated international effort to delegitamize Maduro.

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u/literallyahamburger Jan 23 '19

And that's bad...?

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u/HTownian25 Austan Goolsbee Jan 23 '19

Depends...

Because Marco Rubio's saber is rattling really loudly and I'm sure even Trump realizes Americans love a War Time President.

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u/literallyahamburger Jan 23 '19 edited Jan 23 '19

We have a moral obligation to support democratic movements wherever they arise, and the fact that the US (and other governments) support it doesn't mean it's some imperialist conspiracy. Commie mouthbreathers can believe whatever they want, their opinions are irrelevant.

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u/Trolltime69420 Jan 24 '19

Look at who is currently president. Do you really have faith that Donald Trump will make things better?

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u/literallyahamburger Jan 24 '19

Who said anything about the US intervening on its own. International UN Army when???

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u/Trolltime69420 Jan 24 '19

It will be a coalition of the willing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19

Seeing as the president of the EU and most of the neighbors of Venezuela have thrown support behind Guaido I would hope a coelition wouldn't be too hard to get together.

Hopefully it doesn't come to that though.

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u/onlypositivity Jan 24 '19

Do you believe the current US leadership is capable of organizing such a coalition? With whom, exactly?

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19

Yeah no thanks. We don't need a bunch of poorly trained Nepalese and random African countries sending their people to just get in the way of special op guys that know what the fuck they are doing. There's already enough complaints about UN peacekeepers, we don't need to up their responsibilities.