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The US has directly captured or supported the overthrow of multiple heads of state. Nobody has ever done anything and they won't now.
Too many Americans are actually supportive of this so there won't be any major domestic repercussions. Maybe some hearings in Congress.
America is not going to fix itself. The corruption is built in. For the last 50 years (roughly), the system has been changed to make the people dumb and complacent; to make the President a puppet king who answers to the wealthy.
Trump isn't a one-off outsider - he's what the Republican Party has been transitioning to. The attacks on Venezuela, while outrageous on a global scale, is actually more in-line with prior Republican presidents than most of this first year of Trump-2.
Bush Sr. did the same in deploying in the Middle East against Sadam Hussein, which Bernie Sanders notably called out. This was in 1991.
For decades the USA has been transitioning to fascism. Our schools teach obedience and have been cutting back civics courses and high-level analysis. Our workers are exhausted and struggling to make ends meet, many now working several jobs (normalized via the term "side hustle"). The media landscape has been bought by billionaires and oligarchs. Our culture of consumerism keeps us pacified.
I hate to be a doomer, which is all I've been for the last half-year, but time after time USAmericans have cobbled together sizable movements despite our disadvantages: Occupy Wall Street; The strong anti-war movements; Now the "No King's Protests". It's not working and I don't see how it will ever work. We have had massive protests, and our leaders laugh at us spit in our faces. They do not care. No amount of signaling our desires will make them care.
Call me a "radical" or an "accelerationist". I don't care at this point. Everything we've seen wrong with Russia and China is happening here, and we are doing as little as modern-day Russians and Chinese citizens. Peaceful protests are not working.