• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    No justification to attack a sovereign nation

    Maduro and Trump are friends

    Maduro gets to escape his country and save face instead of being assassinated or executed.

    Trump gets to manufacture a conflict so he can start martial law and become a dictator, and to distract from us learning he came inside little girls.

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    I’m gunna be honest: I don’t really give a fuck if it was legal or not; it was wrong. It’s wrong to mutate the histories, identities, and fates of other nations and it always opens a portal to new monsters. Venezuala’s problems are Venezuala’s to solve and grow and learn from. If Canada sent JTF-2 to kidnap Trump and his inner inner circle while they’re visiting Africa or some shit, pretty sure every fucking American would be upset about that, and most Canadians, though momentarily relieved, would fear the reckoning. The US’s leadership is foolish to not fear the reckoning because they think they’re untouchable. Foolish. At this point it would be a “who shot Mr Burns” situation.

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      Venezuela’s problems aren’t even Venezuela’s to solvd, their problem is an economic embargo by the USA, how are they supposed to solve that?

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    The pretext Trump used for the war was that Venezuela is flooding the US with fentanyl.

    Venezuela doesn’t produce fent and it’s not a significant trans-shipment source. The actual sources are US pharma companies and China.

    I believe that international law frowns on starting imperialist wars of aggression on the basis of lies. And, just as the war is an attempt to deflect attention from the Trump-Epstein files, so is the war on drugs lie a deflection from the real reason for the invasion, which is to enrich US oil companies.

  • MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world
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    Of course there isn’t. Posing the question is doing the work to help Trump normalize it.

    There’s no major media left that will deal in reality.

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    I’d rather he’d do it to Russia. I think both Trump and Maduro are despicable evil people, but if we’re seeing deterioration of international laws already, I’d rather watch Putin being arrested and Russia to be put under western control. But of course, Trump won’t bite the hand that allegedly feeds him.

    Edit:typo

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      Why even contemplate this when he rolled out a red carpet for him only a few months ago?

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      Maduro is not a despicable person. Maduro is not an illegitimate leader. The Bolivarian revolution was widely supported among the people of Venezuela and freed millions from poverty, until USA sanctions demolished their economy. The express purpose of USA sanctioning, according to the US government is to, and I quote, “bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. USA+EU sanctions additionally murder half a million innocents per year according to recent serious sociologic and medical studies.

      By defending regime change under extreme economic sanctioning, you’re approving the murders of 38 million people over the past 50 years of economic sanctions, and directly supporting the CIA strategy of “impoverish them until they change their minds”.

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        I disagree about Maduro, but I never supported US kidnapping him. I’d only approve of such intervention to Russia, which has completely different circumstances.

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    It’s not legal, but there is a lot of precedent for it, which usually defines law. Presidents haven’t declared war since the Korean war, so all of those military engagements weren’t acts of war since because we said so (but they still are).

    Now, before we started ignoring declaring war, we still ignored “the law” frequently since at least the early 1900s maybe earlier. And, of course, we were founded by law breaking. So, breaking the law is a long American tradition.

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    Is wine beer? Do bears read Nietzsche? Did Epstein kill himself?

    It’s asking the obvious. The answer is yes.

    I was joking, it’s clearly NO duh