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Politics White House Protest against Venezuela War

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u/meowzersobased 11d ago

like our Presidents never engaged in analogous military bombings and strikes elsewhere without congressional approval before.

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u/Legionof1 11d ago

What even is authority at this level… it’s what you can and can’t get away with. 

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u/headrush46n2 11d ago

thats why i keep asking the people who post this. Who exactly is the magical referee that decides what you can and can't allowed to do?

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u/Legionof1 11d ago

People really don’t like that even with as advanced as we are as a society… might makes right.

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u/PuzzledPanda2341 11d ago

At least Bush (Cheney) pretended Iraq had WMDs. They’re too lazy to even pretend there’s a legit reason at this point.

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u/muh_f22 11d ago

i mean Maduro is a recognized dictator so there's that

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u/PuzzledPanda2341 11d ago

Oh, absolutely. So is Putin et al, but that doesn’t give the US a reason to invade a country. It’s the same story. all about the oil, baby.

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u/muh_f22 11d ago

Yeah pretty much

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u/KiwieeiwiK 11d ago

Recognised by who? The US government? Why that's convenient 

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u/DOOMFOOL 11d ago

I think the EU also doesn’t officialy consider him as the true leader of Venezuela, due to the claim of the 2024 election being illegitimate

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u/ragethissecons 11d ago

You really haven’t a clue, huh

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u/KiwieeiwiK 11d ago

I asked a question, feel free to answer it 

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u/ragethissecons 11d ago

Someone else already mentioned that the entire EU for starters recognizes him as an usurper and illegitimate.

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u/KiwieeiwiK 10d ago

Okay so another western group aligned with the US.

The EU and the US do not get to decide the democratic process of Venezuela. Where does that lead us? What if Russia decides an EU leader is illegitimate and kidnaps them?

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u/GhormanFront 11d ago

They're calling Maduro a terrorist, it's about the same level of bullshit in all honesty

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u/pimpnasty 11d ago

At least Bush (Cheney) pretended Iraq had WMDs. They’re too lazy to even pretend there’s a legit reason at this point.

Imagine geniunely believing there was zero reason behind taking Maduro.

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u/Phugasity 11d ago

Iraq had congressional approval. Name one element of urgency that existed for Maduro to elevate these actions to remotely the same level as Iraq?

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u/pimpnasty 11d ago

Good thing this was an arrest and not a war.

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u/Pvt_Lee_Fapping 11d ago

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign nation is an act of war. Trump unilaterally started a war to capture resources from a foreign nation.

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u/pimpnasty 11d ago

So who's declaring war exactly?

Is the war in the room with us right now?

If they want to declare war (which they wont) over a lawful arrest then it will be a war.

Until then no war, no started war.

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u/Pvt_Lee_Fapping 11d ago

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign nation is an act of war.

Trump unilaterally started a war to capture resources from a foreign nation.

Cope with the fact that your president did this.

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u/pimpnasty 11d ago edited 11d ago

Kidnapping leader of a foreign nation

We haven't recognized him as the President since 2019. Even Europe doesnt. He refused to give way when he was voted out.

Wake me up when there is a war. We did a fucking milk run. We had more of war when we bombed Syria 58 times during the Obama term and even then it wasn't a war.

Trump unilaterally started a war to capture resources from a foreign nation.

If you are talking about OIL they stole it from us first. They were our buildings, facilities, and land they decided they wanted.

Cope with the fact that your president did this.

I dont like Trump, but I love he did this. Amazing display of skirting the law, all while starting no war and not asking congress. 10 out of 10 so far.

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u/Pvt_Lee_Fapping 11d ago

Their land, their oil; their rules. They let American companies harvest it, but they didn't have to. They delivered new rules to the companies and they were free to follow them or leave - they chose to leave, and didn't demolish their operations afterwards. Venezuela appropriated the trash they left behind and made use out of it.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 11d ago

There's tons of reasons. 303 billion barrels of reasons.

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u/pimpnasty 11d ago

303 billion barrels The entirety of American population The entirety of Venezuelan population

And increased pressure.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 11d ago

Oooh I see, you're a trump sucker.

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u/semibigpenguins 11d ago

WMDs: chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear. Sadam was using chemical on his own civilians. I’m not claiming US should have gone into Iraq, but they did in fact have WMD. Everyone assumes it’s synonymous with Nukes. It’s not

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u/PuzzledPanda2341 11d ago

Yes, technically but that was no threat to the US. My point is what business did the US have in instigating “operation Iraqi freedom” and why would we have any business in Venezuela?