Destabilizing the country and/or installing a US puppet or just allowing the power vacuum to fill itself is likely not to the betterment of their people.

To be fair, I don’t think there’s any way for their lives to get even worse. So If I was Venezuelan, I’d be cautiously optimistic right now.

Things can always get worse.

One should remember Afghanistan.

Uh, they could be murdered by the US army like the million Iraqi civilians the US murdered.

The US is really good at challenging such notions like "well it can't get worse". Don't worry, we find a way.

You lack imagination.

What’s worse than no toilet paper and nowhere to get it?

A wide majority of Venezolans are happy with having Maduro out.

Source?

Maduro lost elections. 8 millions of exilees can't love him. And I interact daily with exilees. There are already videos of people celebrating all around the world. You can disagree. It is hard to believe narco dictators have too much love from people anyway.

im just asking for an actual source, like a news article from a reputable source. Is that not able to be provided?

Just a few I found in 5 minutes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_e...

https://youtu.be/qxlpRDr6aEg?si=jQdhOwslOLrZBN_5

https://youtu.be/FRbX18Evcvg?si=OLpsLCY4MQwAyIEP

https://youtu.be/aISwtCy02Hg?si=Y0TRfj-bHQANSklZ

https://youtube.com/shorts/4azk6qDE9-I?si=J2SjBmJtAXotU6js

Not a single one of these backs up your claim that a "wide majority" venezuelans are happy about this.

Check better.

I'm not the parent commenter, but here's one:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/americas/venezuela-election-r...

and you can google similar keywords from a variety of sources - many dispute the integrity of the 2024 elections

Ok, so you have no basis to claim that a majority of venezuelans think anything.

> It is hard to believe narco dictators have too much love from people anyway.

You must be confusing venezuela with a state that traffics in drugs.

Ask people from Venezuela, check the web, the news. They are the main players in all this.

I'm not sure many people will believe you saying that

Fortunately, their disbelief does not make it not true.

and the corollary is of course that saying something doesn't make it true

You have the Internet at your disposal. You can see for yourself the opinions of Venezuelans. We'll wait.

Does anyone believe that the US regime, an entity that utterly ignores the needs of its masses in favor of a relative handful of lobbyists, is really going to install a representative government that exists to improve the lives of Venezuelans instead of enriching the same powers that it's beholden to?

Surely Maduro is bad, but that doesn't mean the next phase won't be worse. Trump has never shown any interest in spreading democracy or human rights. I would not be surprised if the mission involved a side deal with someone in Maduro's inner circle to let them become the new dictator who is willing sell oil leases to the US and who will be as bad or worse to the Venezuelan populace. We have absolutely no idea what happens next and Trump has not given any indication of strategy beyond wanting oil.

Why would you believe anyone the US installs as a puppet will be any better?

The most good we can do is allowing Venezuela to live without sanctions

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/05775132.2019.16...

> This article analyzes the consequences of the economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the U.S. government since August of 2017. The authors find that most of the impact of these sanctions has not been on the government but on the civilian population. The sanctions reduced the public’s caloric intake, increased disease and mortality (for both adults and infants), and displaced millions of Venezuelans who fled the country as a result of the worsening economic depression and hyperinflation. They made it nearly impossible to stabilize Venezuela’s economic crisis. These impacts disproportionately harmed the poorest and most vulnerable Venezuelans.