[flagged]
> "Sovereign head of state" tortured, "disappeared", and murdered thousands, and rigged elections.
can't wait for someone to kidnap trump as well
Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
441–450 of 1001 posts
Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
#442Hacker News?
Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
#443"Venezuelan allies Russia, Cuba and Iran were quick to condemn the strikes as a violation of sovereignty."
Right, Russia, who has been attacking Ukraine not just for one night, but for four years, is now going to lecture the US about violations of sovereignty. Their moral high ground, if they ever had any, is long gone.
I'm not sad if Maduro's gone. I'm even less sad if this results in actual freedom for Venezuela after 20 years of nightmare.
But I am not happy about the president of the US, on his own authority, choosing to remove the head of other countries, on rather flimsy pretexts. (If he presents actual evidence that Maduro was actively and deliberately shipping drugs to the US, or worse, criminals, then I will change my opinion. But I need evidence, not just claims and bluster.)
Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
#444Statement from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela https://x.com/i/status/2007359985546674407
You might want to directly link the tweet in question.
And use xcancel.com rather than the largely-inaccessible source.
Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
#445Venezuela's major crime is having natural and human resources that it won't allow multinational corporations to exploit.
Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
#446Interesting that World War 3 never happened; instead, we smoothly transitioned to War World, where war is just something that happens all the time, randomly, intermittently, undeclared, and interminably.
Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
#447Maduro arrested https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1158304287678... Considering the general incompetence of this administration, this level of success with such a surgical operation seems completely out of character. Incredibly impressive operation, whether or not you agree with it. Although the ability to operate helos over Caracas with such impunity may very well suggest high-level collaborators in the…
> suggest high-level collaborators in the local military
This - almost guaranteed that this was a negotiated outcome/coup from the military.
Also it's telling i had to scroll halfway down the page to find the first non "trump therefore bad" comment. The cognitive dissonance of the posters vis a vis Machado is pretty astounding.
Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
#448Does Americans really believe a chief of a big country is state is a drug smuggler?
Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
#449Yay more political posts on the techie news site. Closing the tab for the weekend this time.
Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
#450Two wrongs don’t make a right. Regardless of your opinion on Maduro, you can still acknowledge that the head of a sovereign state being captured in an unannounced/unnamed military operation by a superpower is wrong from a principled standpoint, and that it’s destabilising a country with 30+ million people if not the entire region.
[deleted]