Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by baubino on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:33AM (#46477127)

I’m not disputing the right of the U.S. to intervene. I’m saying that we should call this “intervention” what it is — an act of war. It doesn’t matter what the cause or impetus for the act is; we need to stop pretending that forceful, military-based aggression into sovereign land (regardless of who the leader of that land is) is anything other than an act of war.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by IG_Semmelweiss on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:42AM (#46477212)

I think that's fair.

I suppose my argument is then that war was already happening, and it was declared by Chavez/Maduron on most of LATAM and USA, the moment they decided to export their problems (drugs, criminals, destitutes), into LATAM and USA, hurting our citizens.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by ks2048 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:34AM (#46478554)

This reasoning would justify invasion of just about any country in the hemisphere. Many with much more justification than Venezuela.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by amanaplanacanal on Saturday January 03, 2026 @10:35AM (#46477829)

Americans want those drugs though. And we need the immigrants, otherwise who's going to pay for our social security?

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by anon84873628 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @10:15AM (#46477594)

Well then why didn't the rest of LATAM fight back against Maduro? They could have asked the US to form a coalition if they wanted the help.

Anyway, that is the exact argument the Trump admin is making (drugs/gangs) but they didn't take it to Congress, as required.

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