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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by ericmay on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:21PM (#46479156)
You’re right. We should stop screwing around in foreign conflicts. Why are we spending money helping Ukraine? Who cares if Israel bombs Gaza? If Maduro wants to starve his people to death under a police state to emulate North Korea. Not my problem!
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by jacquesm on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:31PM (#46479266)
That's a very, very bad take and I'm really surprised that you can't see the difference between helping people defend themselves vs interfering in a foreign country because their leadership does not want to give you access to their natural resources on a pretext.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by ericmay on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:52PM (#46479475)
Are you really trying to paint Maduro’s authoritarian regime, who traffics people and drugs, and helps Russia evade international oil and arms sanctions and the US arresting of him as “their leadership doesn’t want to give America access to their natural resources”?

The EU doesn’t even recognize Maduro as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and he forced the democratically elected president into hiding!

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by ky3 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:24PM (#46479830)
Are you arguing two wrongs make a right? This most recent wrong would likely gestate an even worse authoritarian regime than the earlier wrong.

Where is the right you're seeing?

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by ericmay on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:49PM (#46480112)
By that logic the US shouldn’t get involved in any other foreign entanglement or global police action because of unintended consequences. Tell me, who from the international community will seize Russian shadow fleet oil tankers evading sanctions!

Wait! Crap!

We can’t sanction Russia - if we do it might destabilize the Russian dictator and if he goes out a worse authoritarian regime might come to power!

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by ky3 on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:37AM (#46498583)
Which nation did Maduro invade again? Did you confuse Venezuela with Russia?

> By that logic the US shouldn’t get involved in any other foreign entanglement or global police action because of unintended consequences.

Strawman. No-one is claiming that.

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by Hammershaft on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:01PM (#46482139)
We live in a world where even regional nuclear war will trigger a nuclear winter that starves people across the earth. Nationalist isolationism makes no sense in the modern world.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by ericmay on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:54PM (#46482563)
You know, you’re right. Nationalist isolationism makes no sense in the modern world. It’s a good thing we got Maduro and are supporting Ukraine.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by terminalshort on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:17PM (#46483325)
That's complete nonsense. We've already nuked the planet thousands of times to no effect.