I don't really know what to say at this point.
As far as the legality of what we did, I don't see a problem with it (at least I don't think so). The United States should be able to steamroll some random guy in Grenada or Venezuela if we feel like he's a bad actor. International law and the ICC is a bad joke and shouldn't constrain our behavior. Domestically, the War Powers resolution should allow the executive to do something like this.
The problem is, why are we doing this? And who is "we"? I have never seen convincing evidence that removing Maduro will reduce the flow of drugs into the US, or that it will remove communism from the country. As far as the oil, if Exxon Mobil or whoever is able to drill in Venezuelan oilfields now, that's great for them, but how does it benefit the rest of us? For some reason, I don't think Americans will get anything out of this.
The drug angle is especially stupid because Trump just pardoned another South American head of state (Juan Hernandez) who is on tape wanting to "shove cocaine up the noses of gringos."
The only country that tangibly benefits, at this point, is Israel, given that Venezuela has been a known and acknowledged thorn in their side for years. It's no surprise that the next presidential hopeful Maria Machado will not shut up about how many things she's ready to do for them.
Some people are alleging that China and Russia were establishing a foothold in our backyard with Venezuela. They do indeed supply some oil to China (2-5% of China's supply) but I haven't heard of any other involvement, certainly nothing substantial enough to warrant regime change.
I also have a problem with the example this is setting globally. We are going to charge a foreign head of state with possession of machine guns? So when Germany brings an American citizen up on charges for violating their hate speech laws are we going to pretend we're better than that? Are we still going to pretend that Russia invading Ukraine was unjustified?
If Maduro was repeatedly aggressing on the US and uniting himself with China/Russia, I don't think I have a problem with this. But I just don't see it.
First, you 'saw' me talking about 'international law', and now you're seeing this. Are you alright? In the meantime, I'll laugh at you imagining that bombing Iran is in America's interests.
Looking strong or weak is mostly of concern to chickenhawks. I'm just saying that your right-wing bugman argument of "THERE WERE EXPLOSIONS, SO KEWL" doesn't even have the virtue of looking strong.
Why would you expect a supporter of US foreign policy to be anything other than stupid or evil?
I do know him, which is why this is such a surprise.
Did you forget he attacked critics of bombing Iran? He's shilled like this for a long time.
I'm not sure I ever knew that to 'forget' it. He has brought up Iran several times though to say what a great success it is. You never know if it's a coping mechanism for a Trump cultists, or someone who actually wanted it.
If that's the argument you've seen me make, then something about this action seems to have made you so unreasonably angry that you can't read or think clearly. I'll talk to you more whe you've got your head in straight.
Well, you just hallucinated two things that you asserted with great confidence that I said. I paraphrased your "this looks very stronk and cool" as what you saw above, and that certainly is much closer. Not unreasonable angry, although this retard repeatedly backstabbing his supporters to pleasure neocons should make one that.
Aside from the fedpilled "nothing ever happens" crowd in the stupid corners of the internet, Trump's supporters seem pretty universally happy with this move. Perhaps not quite as happy as the Venezuelans themselves are, but he has 85% support from Republicans right now. Despite the desperate black-pilling efforts from the groypers and other fed psyops, the MAGA base are pretty satisfied with Trump. They haven't been backstabbed: they're getting what they voted for.
I expected better of you than to fall for manufacturing consent based on AI-videos and fakes. But even if this were true, this is just a reprise of the earlier "we'll be greeted as liberators in Iraq".
Sorry, I forgot we're not allow to bring up your previous monumental regime change disasters.
So which am I?
Where did he announce that he was going to coup Venezuela, for them to vote for this? He announced the opposite. Same for Iran.
We'll see what happens in November. He's headed for a historic defeat. And rightly so.