Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes • Hacker News Board

Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Post by Zigurd » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC

po1nt wrote: post #349

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That's an excellent outcome to hope for. The odds are that we have already used up our "stopped clock is right every 12 hours" karma. Not that anyone should feel sorry for Maduro.

Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Post by wiz21c » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC

po1nt wrote: post #349

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as far as Trump capitalizes on Europe's demise, this won't happen

Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Post by dataflow » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 1:48 PM UTC

boramalper wrote: post #344

Two 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.

> Regardless of your opinion on Maduro, you can still acknowledge that the head of a sovereign state being captured (...)

Note the US administration contends that he wasn't the legitimate head of state. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/marco-rubio-nicolas-m...

[2] I'm (obviously) being sloppy regarding head of state vs. head of government.

Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 1:49 PM UTC

xvector wrote: post #358

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Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Post by b00ty4breakfast » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 1:49 PM UTC

Boy is trying to outdo both Regan and Dubya. He didn't even try to sell it to us like they did with Iraq.

Venezuelans, I'm sorry my shithole country is about to inflict a fascist puppet state on you. Nobody here gives enough of a shit despite all the chest-thumping and "MUH LIBERTY TREE". We'd rather have drum circles and ask for permission to dissent.

Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Post by jennyholzer3 » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 1:49 PM UTC

dekrg wrote: post #5

It will be pretty amusing to watch all those westerners who, not so long ago, were talking about "rules based order" pretend nothing is happening or to justify it.

"rules based order" means putting people with dark skin in handcuffs on TV