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On the one hand, Maduro's leadership is illegitimate and horrible.
That said, the US isn't invading because they want to bring peace and democracy to them. It's because they want to get oil production for private businesses back into the country and because they didn't "fall in line".
Fucking US Imperialism revival going on......
Say you're living in a house with a shitty landlord. The local mobster turns up at his house, beats him up, and steals the keys to his tenants' houses. The tenants cheer! The mobster then proceeds to turn up at your house, open the doors with the keys, and steals all your shit.
The mobster is not on your side and never was.
Note that "all your shit" includes your copper plumbing and wiring so your house is uninhabitable. He probably tracked in a bunch of PFAS and other toxic stuff all over your garden too. And left an upper decker in your toilet for good measure.
And then his friends companies will offer to replace your copper pipes with some shit that’s illegal in their home town
It’s unclear that they’re illegitimate.
Yes, they certainly manipulated an election.
…but “the west” was manipulating the same election.
Maduro's leadership is a helluva lot more legitimate than the orange pedophile.
The bar of course, is so low we still haven't heard it hit the bottom yet. :(
"revival" you say, as if this hasn't been the entire history of the US. they're just not bothering to even try to cover it up anymore
It's insane how fast MAGA went from no wars to "we are so happy that a dictator was removed and the people of Venezuela are happy!"
WTF!?!? It's batshit crazy the lengths they go to to justify all his illegal actions.
It's really easy to change your positions when there were never any principles behind it either way.
This is what I'm so desperate for people to understand: these are empty people. In terms of politics, they don't have beliefs in the way you and I do. They have hollowed out that part of themselves. This is why debate or the introduction of new facts never changes their minds, because it never made up their mind in the first place. Such a change requires your positions to be propped up by genuine belief in what you think is the right thing, where that prop can be knocked over.
These people belong to a team, a clan, a cult, however you want to phrase it. The only thing that matters is that their side is in power and uses that power to act against those who aren't. Any means to that end is valid to them. They'll happily switch to whichever position is most convenient for them without missing a beat. They're only justifying it to you to keep you busy and distracted, they never really believed a word they said. They just chose the words they thought would be most effective to win.
The best term I have heard is "reprogrammable meatbags" for these idiots. They will spew back whatever official propaganda is shit into their heads like dutiful puppets. They don't care that they can hold two diametrically opposing ideas or viewpoints at the same time.
"communism bad" has been hammered into the heads of Americans for decades, it's easy to exploit that reflex
right wing propaganda is a hellava drug. especially for venezuelans in USA. its not like venezuelas is suddenly going to elect a democratic president, it almost never is when USA/UK backs a coup.
its not like venezuelas is suddenly going to elect a democratic president
There will be a sham election and a USA stooge will (try to) rule the place for a while. Then he'll be couped by the masses. Another stooge ascends to power, with USA's blessing. And so on...
All of this has happened many times before in South America.
He basically threatened to kill her today, so. Neat
he also threatened greenland, mexico, other s american countries, just to add more content to the news to distract from PDF island.
So venezuela is a colony of USA ? Is this even allowed ?? Can western countries keep colonies now ?
What do you mean allowed? There isn't actually a world police force that's going to arrest Trump or anything like that.
International Law is just a bunch of treaties that countries have agreed to follow. Countries don't agree to treaties that prevent them from doing what they want to do. The reason why this kind of thing doesn't happen more often is because political stability is preferable for capitalist systems. Trump only cares about the money he makes personally, so he takes bribes and now he's prioritizing the interests of only the companies that pay him bribes over the economy in general. Global stability is good for the economy, but Trump only cares about personal profit.
Countries don’t agree to treaties that prevent them from doing what they want to do
Sure they do. The US made a bunch of treaties with Native Americans, then when they wanted to do the prohibited things they just did them anyone and ignored the treaties that they agreed to
Look up Russia's defence pack with Ukraine.
Nothing Trump ever does ever lasts more than a few hours.
"We conquered Venezuela"
Two hours later: "No, you didn't"
There is a possibility that Maduro would be 'returned', with an 'understanding' to line Trump's pockets. Delcy might be hedging here - she can either fall in line behind Maduro when the time comes, or push back and be recognized by Venezuelans as truly legitimate.
