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Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Post by chrisco255 »

greekrich92 wrote: post #445

Venezuela's major crime is having natural and human resources that it won't allow multinational corporations to exploit.

Venezuela has had plenty of recent multinational support in recent years from China National Petroleum, Anhui Guangda Mining, Rosneft (Russia), and Iran.

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

guywithahat wrote: post #715

Thank God, Chavez turned the richest country in south america into the poorest and Maduro continued his legacy with the average person losing 17lbs in a year when the price of oil fell. Although I'm surprised Trump is getting involved in world affairs we're at least at a point where the situation can't get any worse. Hopefully Trump will end socialism and bring back democracy to Venezuela

> we're at least at a point where the situation can't get any worse.

That is incredibly optimistic and completely wrong. It can and probably will get worse. You just don’t create a power vacuum and hope for the best.

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Post by OCASMv2 »

guax wrote: post #600

A lot of Venezuelans are happy about it. Maduro is not good for Venezuela. The US should not be the decider of who stays in power on another country. The president should not have the power to apprehend a countries president IN THEIR COUNTRY without a process thats more than just "I really want it". The US is giving another clear message that it does not care about global order, just global control. We're back in the…

> The president should not have the power to apprehend a countries president IN THEIR COUNTRY

Good thing then that Maduro isn't the president of Venezuela, but a narco-terrorist usurper.

EDIT: Downvoting me will not change that fact, only hide it.

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Post by dubeux »

I get slightly desperate realizing how people are lead to such naive discussions, even in a place with supposedly instructed, informed persons. Maduro may be a dictator, a murderer, whatever. This has absolutely no relation with the reasons for US invading, bombing and killing Venezuelans, or whichever country. For about a century, US has been doing it all over the world, not because they wanna live in a better, peaceful world - quite the opposite, they've been doing it for supporting coups and stablishing dictatorships that favour their supremacy, their role as the most powerful country in the world. Do you really, really believe Mr. Donald is very concerned about the lives of poor venezuelans? Or, just to stay in the region, he supports El Salvador dictator because he's a very nice fellow?

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Post by throwaw12 »

guax wrote: post #600

A lot of Venezuelans are happy about it. Maduro is not good for Venezuela. The US should not be the decider of who stays in power on another country. The president should not have the power to apprehend a countries president IN THEIR COUNTRY without a process thats more than just "I really want it". The US is giving another clear message that it does not care about global order, just global control. We're back in the…

> There is ZERO concern of the current US administration about the welfare of Venezuelans

100x times this!

US administration doesn't care about the welfare of most human beings in the world (including in the US).

We saw it in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia, Yemen and now Palestine. Having an assumption that this move was made for Venezuelans and now they're liberated from evil is wrong.

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Post by xpe »

xpe wrote: post #698

Claim: according to any sensible definition of international law, this action was illegal. See [1] for example. Would anyone care to offer a genuinely held counter argument? Preferably based on legal expertise. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/is-there-any-l...

> Vice President J. D. Vance suggested on X that this morning’s incursion is legal because “Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism.” But as my colleague Conor Friedersdorf has noted, this logic would mean that the president can order an invasion of “any country where a national has an outstanding arrest warrant.”

- The Atlantic

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Post by egberts1 »

guax wrote: post #600

A lot of Venezuelans are happy about it. Maduro is not good for Venezuela. The US should not be the decider of who stays in power on another country. The president should not have the power to apprehend a countries president IN THEIR COUNTRY without a process thats more than just "I really want it". The US is giving another clear message that it does not care about global order, just global control. We're back in the…

Looks like it: celebratory crowd

https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2007464418565648690

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