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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Assuming he is saying what the military has confirmed to him...

...well, this gives hope that full-scale war won't follow. It seems likely that Maduro had his system running on personal loyalty. If that is so, with him gone, the house of cards is likely to collapse.

A few words about Venezuela's air defense. Or the lack of it - the total lack of it was impressive. And in considerable contrast with Maduro's boastings of how many thousand MANPADS they supposedly had.

A convoy of helicopters which civilians could film slowly proceeded above Caracas and - not a missile, not a quickfire gun, seemingly not a shot was fired at it - unfathomably lucky b******s. A few guys on the wrong randomly picked rooftop could have ruined their day or life, but there were none.

As for what this means politically: Trump should now get a free apartment in the Hague (preferably next to Maduro's and Putin's apartments). But alas, he won't.

Meanwhile, South American countries have good reason to check if they actually have air defense, because with such a president in the US, maybe they will need it.

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[–] BodyPower@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have no Idea of how this was setup. But I can guess. Guess how the security and military of Maduro was persuaded. With bribes. Guess who paid the bribes? Not the US government. Guess who will have favor in the US government at the cost of common US citizens.

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 week ago

Knowing our US legislators, unless the people uncharacteristically push through the primaries & elect in the midterms enough representatives who aren't spineless losers, they'll argue an impeachment is a losing proposition and "the nation needs to put this behind them to move on & heal" or some other feckless, self-serving bullshit.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If Russian Spetznats swooped in and kidnapped Zelensky, the West would be up in arms about this rogue terror state. But when American terrorists kidnap the President of a sovereign country, liberals are all "gosh, I'm not sure if this is a good thing"

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[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope for Maduro he died a quick painless death. Because the alternative is the US torturing him into submission until the trail where he should then justify their attack. Its some fucked up shit.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

Nah, he needs to be preserved for the big show trial, then sentenced to decades in prison, as Trump takes personal control of the oil. Eventually Maduro will access his offshore account and pay Trump a billion dollar bribe, and he'll be pardoned.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

So the fuck what. Now what? A 20 year partisan or civil war? I wonder what the Mexicans are thinking.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He said he's ready to put boots on the ground and that the country will be controlled by USA for now. So I'm going with complete annexation of Venezuela. Next stop: Greenland, then Canada.

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He said not long ago today that "something should be done with mexico" so...

[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

That was something

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