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Things not going well in Venezuela
Who's in Guyana?
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Things not going well in Venezuela
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/03/business/oil-gas-venezuela-maduro- Things not going well in Venezuela
Yes, by Latin American standards, and relative to it's neighbors, Venezuela was stable and prosperous democracy. Why is that hard to accept?- Things not going well in Venezuela
Interesting word salad.- Things not going well in Venezuela
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/inside-operation-absolute-resolve-the-u-s-incursion-that-deposed-venezuelas-maduro-fa812617?st=Xwnxgv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink- Things not going well in Venezuela
Before the socialists took over, ending democracy, and wrecking the oil industry, Venezuela was considered one of the most stable and prosperous democracies in Latin America. Why wouldn't they have a chance to return to that?- Things not going well in Venezuela
The CR- Things not going well in Venezuela
Sorry about your populist/leftist heroes taking the L. They'll survive... maybe. No, it means I'm pointing out the illogic in the previous point by asking valid questions, that if answered in good faith, reveal the fallacy of the position. I agree. Both administrations have handled the Ukraine war about as poorly as possible.- Things not going well in Venezuela
You're not wrong, and I'm not a fan of moving away from NATO etc. Unfortunately, through incompetence and atrophy, the world has moved away from following "international law" and the consequences of not doing so have severely weakened. In the current day, we must advance our interests as best we can. What logically follows if we don't? What happens if we don't advance our interests, in the name of optics and legalities, while the Chinese and Russians do? We weaken ourselves just so we feel better about it?- Things not going well in Venezuela
I'm not sure, Immaac and the cloak room think it was "illegal". Drug smugglers until they're pulled over, then they're fisherman. The indictment is longstanding, involves multiple members of his family, and has been upheld through multiple administrations, both Republican and Democrat. Sorry for your loss, T&Ps for the arrested. Does that world exist in the year 2025? Public opinion matters of course, just not as much as you would like it to. Nothing he wrote is out of line, or untrue. This is the way wars are fought, and foreign policy is advanced now. No more declarations of war, or multilateral international law unfortunately.- Things not going well in Venezuela
What makes you think I agreed with him? I didn't, and isolationism is dumb, not viable, and never really has been. He can be a moron, and still do useful and good things, like kill Solemani, damage Iran's nuclear program, and depose Maduro. It's possible for both to be true. I am generally not a fan, but I'm also not such a dumb political cultural warrior that I overlook actions that advance my countries' interests. Venezuelan socialism specifically, and Latin American leftism generally, have been a bleeding sore in the western hemisphere for far too long. Cuba should fall soon, and other erstwhile populist leftists like Columbia and Nicaragua's leaders will be weakened. Only Lula has a chance at maintaining his stance... till he's dead or voted out. Any chance China and Russia thought they had at causing trouble in our back yard just took a huge hit, not to mention Iran and their Hezbollah tools. Good Were they looking for ammo? Did they need ammo? Does it matter? There is not a classroom, nor courtroom, that exists where such "ammo" matters.- Things not going well in Venezuela
Was China looking for justification? Is this the trigger for an invasion they weren't going to do, until just now? Wow! Were you expecting that US companies weren't going to be involved resuscitating the Venezuelan industry and fields? We're the only ones with the technology to fix their fields, with refineries that can handle their crude uncut. We're the ones that made it viable in the 80s and 90s. To think otherwise is naive.- Things not going well in Venezuela
You're right, the US should give up defending its interests, and enacting it's foreign policy objectives for the foreseeable future, because it did so poorly in the past. Isolationism has always been an effective and viable policy going back centuries. MTG whole-heartedly agrees. He's a moron. If there was a deep state plan to control Venezuelan oil, he'd be the last to understand it. And even if there was, it'll take 10-20 years just to get Venezuela back to pumping what it was when Chavez first started looting it, if that's even possible. Poor Venezuelans have been trying to immigrate because the socialists have turned their country into a basket case, they've been doing it heavily for the last 5-10 years. And Trump pardoned that president because he's a moron who cares about himself first, second, and third. The country comes after. I don't watch Fox BTW, and if you don't know that Iran and Hezbollah have had a presence in South America generally, and Venezuela specifically, going on thirty/forty years, I suggest you do a little googling.- Things not going well in Venezuela
People that take what he says, instead of what he does, deserve all the anxiety that brings. He is a moron who judges everything by a forty year old paradigm. This isn't over, but it's a good start. And the Canadians already regret that mistake. Here's hoping they can reverse it.- Things not going well in Venezuela
Venezuela had been an "expensive humanitarian shit show" going on two decades. What are they going to do? Flood our borders with poor migrants and drugs? Give western hemisphere bases to Muslim shit heads like Hezbollah and Iran? Prop up an anti American staging base miles off Florida in Cuba? And you think the motivation is oil? Hahahaha! Are you mentally stuck in the early nineties? The only oil we would use is their sour crude, and we get all we need from the Canadian tar sands, and our own largest production in the world fields. Their oil is useful and valuable to them, but it is far down the list of motivations for us.- Things not going well in Venezuela
Sorry your childlike attention span couldn't handle a topical five minute video. T&Ps for your favorite anti-American dictator. WWIII? LOL! Russia and China didn't start WWIII over Ukraine or Iran, but they're going to start it over the arrest of a tin-pot dictator in the western hemisphere? Great analysis... BTW we're arguably already in a 21st century World War/Cold War, and arguably have been since about 2005/2008/2014. What invasion? Define invasion in this context. "Drummed up charges"? Were the "charges" drummed up when they were imposed by Obama Bush or Biden? Are you implying that foreign politicians are immune from American justice? Or only immune when presidents you don't like pursue them? For the morons: *Not a Trump endorsement*- Things not going well in Venezuela
Your understanding of what the constitution allows the Presidency to do in foreign policy, along with what, if any, actual effect international law has in regards to American power... is sorely lacking. I think reddit or the CR is more your style. *This is not an endorsement of Trump*- I'm Chevy Chase, And You're Not (documentary)
In a 2007 biography, Chase stated that he was physically and psychologically abused as a child by his mother and stepfather, Dr. John Cederquist, a psychoanalyst.[12] In that biography, he said, "I lived in fear all the time, deathly fear." Abuse he was subjected to as a child included being awakened in the middle of the night by his mother to be slapped repeatedly across the face, lashes to the backs of his legs, punches to the head by his stepfather, and being locked in a bedroom closet for hours. As a punishment for being suspended from school at the age of 14, Chase was locked in a basement for several days.[13] Both of his parents died in 2005.[14] Not an excuse, but I have some sympathy.- Texas Roster 2026
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Because the grain, and the fertilizer, has continued to flow.- Israel vs everyone war thread
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