Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by tim333 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:54PM (#46480170)

>ZERO concern of the current US administration about the welfare of Venezuelans

I get the impression they are concerned at least a bit with the welfare of Venezuelans. Maybe a secondary consideration to drugs and oil but here's what Trump was saying:

>We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious

transition. So, we don't want to be involved with having somebody else get

in. And we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years. So we are going to run the

country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious

transition. And it has to be judicious because that's what we're all about. We

want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people of Venezuela. (https://youtu.be/cQdRlS4uf0E?t=3784)

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by blurbleblurble on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:08PM (#46481005)

Then the hook is thoroughly in your cheek, if you haven't swallowed it

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by tim333 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:18PM (#46481094)

I'm a bystander but mildly optimistic.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by blurbleblurble on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:20PM (#46481111)

You may as well be a bot

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by tim333 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:28PM (#46481179)

Bots don't have much of an opinion on these things. I'm disappointed that everyone is so cynical. At least the Venezuelans seem cheerful even if some HN commenters are not and sound like they'd be happier if Venezuela had another twenty years of poverty and dictatorship.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by pjc50 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:27PM (#46482375)

People who remember Iraq and Libya understand the difference between stable dictatorship and unstable warlord era. Removing those dictators left the countries more deadly and poor than otherwise. Libya in particular created the European refugee crisis in the Mediterranean. I suspect one outcome of this will be even more Venezuelan refugees, including illegally in the US.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by Cipater on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:34PM (#46482432)

You cannot possibly be this naive. Are you doing a bit?

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by XorNot on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:49PM (#46481989)

Christ how old are you? Anyone alive during Iraq 2 has no excuse to be this naive.

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