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Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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I think something like The Hague is the moderate position with this administration.

There's a definite reason that the Trump regime has sanctioned ICC personnel, disallowing them access to things like Microsoft software and unbanking them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14203

Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Footage is quickly spreading, looks like strikes on military bases as well as a bunch of low-flying helicopters, so a strike + a ground invasion? They didn't even try very hard to manufacture consent for a war against Venezuela. Wonderful.

Is that really necessary? Venezuela recently held an election in which the results were simply ignored by the leader in power. Very few US citizens will find this particularly odious.

Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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So the USA is officially a roque state internally and externally and was brought down by its very own law and order party. Poetic.

> USA is officially a roque state internally and externally

All of the great powers are. So are most of the regional powers. It's basically the EU and Brazil hanging on to the old rules-based international order.

Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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How does this differ from Russia invading Ukraine? We have to wake up to the world where USA no longer cares about ideals like liberal democracy or allies, but is a warmongering corporatist autocracy.

For one the whole country of Ukraine is fighting like hell for almost 4 years following the orders of their elected government to defend their country.

If Russia was on the right, the people of Ukraine would have just hanged Zelenskyy and his gov, instead of sending their children to the meat grinder.

Let’s see if Venezuelans will put their lives on the line to protect the regime.

Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Combat footage is coming out by the minute. Watching it, I don't understand how Americans can be so fundamentally evil. Watching helicopters gun people on the ground down. What makes you so sick in the head that you would do this? How could you obey these orders and feel nothing as you slaughter innocent people? There isn't even any possible pretext to this invasion. They know what they're doing and still choose to d…

Genuinely, I think ~30% of Americans just like it when other people suffer. This might also be true of people in general
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