JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet

Re:JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force... by hsiudh on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @03:57AM (#46286308)

~60% of the 8M people that fled Venezuela are incline to support a military intervention, that number goes down to 40% estimated for those still inside, so about more than half the country want external action to get out of the dictatorship. That percentage is for external action, the percentage that voted against the dictator in the stolen election last year was calculated at 76%; so no, is definitely not just the MAGA fan base that want to see something happen.

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Re:JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force... by SXX on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @04:21AM (#46286449)

Except last few times it went so well for the countries where "intervention" happen.

Also are they in favor to replacing this dictator with another pro-Trump one?

Current US president have a weak spot for every dictator and authoritarian leader in the world: El Salvador, Russia, Hungary, etc.

Might be not the best candidate to deal with dictators...

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Re:JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force... by hsiudh on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:51AM (#46287063)

> Also are they in favor to replacing this dictator with another pro-Trump one?

When your options are being poor, starved to death or dissapeared during the last 25 years, you take any chance for a change

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Re:JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force... by leesalminen on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @10:34AM (#46289825)

So Maria machado, the recipient of the Nobel peace prize in 2025 is a would be dictator ?

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Re:JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force... by SXX on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:27AM (#46290550)

Why do you believe some civil opposition leader will end up im power after foreign military intervention?

Usually people who end up in power are ones best at shooting others invluding shooting civil politicians.

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Re:JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force... by jacquesm on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:38PM (#46295629)

We have some interesting precedents to compare notes with:

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

That did not quite go according to plan either. Definitely not a dictatorship but not exactly clean and the end result is not so far off from where they started. Venezuela could easily end up worse than it is today.

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Re:JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force... by andrepd on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:44AM (#46287009)

A bad situation is not improved by an even worse one. It does speaks volumes to the desperation of Venezuelans that many would rather their own country get invaded if that rids them of Maduro.

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Re:JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force... by leesalminen on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @10:33AM (#46289807)

So you know better than the poor brown people?

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