Yes because it went so well for all the other countries the US meddld with lol

We dropped a lot of ordnance on Germany and Japan and they seem to be doing alright.

I suppose South Korea is doing fine as well, so let’s just hope Chinese troops do not flow over their land border with Venezuela.

If we need a more recent and perhaps more relevant comparison point, Operation Just Cause had a successful outcome.

I know it’s trendy and important to mock Iraq and Vietnam but it’s not all a failures.

That you have to reach back to the 80s for a "good" example says something. Even more recent is Afghanistan, safely back in the hands of the Taliban.

You forgot quite a few...

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

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202112/1240540.shtml

But you're the good guys and do that to deliver freedom and democracy so it's OK. I think you're under estimating how the world is rapidly updating their views on the US, and the lasting damage to your soft power.

Germany was two countries for nearly fifty years following ww2.

The fascists are also advocating for an end to foreign aid. Gonna be hard to repeat post war rebuilding efforts.

This is exactly the kind of ignorant chest thumping arrogance that lead to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, destabilised the entire region, lead to the rise of IS, and eventually to streams of refugees heading for Europe. It's outright disgusting.

We killed a million Iraqis, but Iraq seems to be doing alright... Wow dude.

South Korea is doing very well. So is Taiwan.

That’s interesting who are they? The few venezuelas I know hate it too, so like is this a gulf war 1 or Iraq war 2?

This usually (never) goes well for the USA. (Source: pick a regime change war.)

There's a difference between happy for the regime to fall" and "a superior military invades and starts a war"

Bombs are not the solution.

I can't speak for other countries, but the regime in Russia has popular support.

And if "every Venezuelan you know" is someone who immigrated because of Chavez and/or Maduro, then you have an extremely biased sample to gauge the overall mood of their populace.

>>> but the regime in Russia has popular support.

Yeah, because in Russia if you don't support the regime then straight to jail.

That's not quite true even today (it all depends on how loud your non-support is), and was even less true prior to the war. The majority support Putin not because the alternative is prison but because they genuinely believe that he's a good leader. And they're wrong, but that's a different story.

> then you have an extremely biased sample to gauge the overall mood of their populace.

I think that if a good chunk of the people that don't agree with their government are basically forced to emigrate you don't get to turn around and say "See, everyone that remains loves the government!"

There are still Maduro-linked armed rebel groups like the ELN in Venezuela that aren't that keen on the US version of freedom.

Nukes make a lot of difference though, wouldn't be so sure about russia

If you are talking about those that left the country... yeah, obviously they are happy. They literally left and got a better life. That's called immigration. That doesn't mean that it will be fine for those that stayed.

> Let freedom ring

What happens if the Venezuelan people decide they want their oil profits to stay in Venezuela rather than flowing into oil company coffers? Will they have the "freedom" to choose that?

Don't get me wrong, Maduro being toppled is a positive in isolation, but it's still wait-and-see regarding what he gets replaced with.

"We’re going to have our very large US oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country and we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so" [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/03/trump-venezu...

When will the US let freedom to ring in Saudi Arabia?

Iran is already in revolution, started a few days ago.