I never mentioned Maduro. Not once. I never said he was even a somewhat competent leader, let alone a saint. My problem isn’t that a bad leader had been removed from power, it’s that a nation’s right to sovereignty and independence has been violated.
Maduro may be an awful dictator, but Trump just basically kidnapped a head of state with only his own authorization. Congress never authorized it. This sets a precedent that the president of the United States can detain heads of state without any oversight.
That might mean something if there were any realistic chance that this would result in something better and more democratic, but both given how Trump acts and how US intervention in Central and South America typically goes, odds are that whoever they find will just be a puppet dictator out to extract resources to the benefit of US companies.
Poorly, I’m sure. But most importantly it will be without the consent of the Venezuelan people. Not that he, or the Americans who support him, care.
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I never mentioned Maduro. Not once. I never said he was even a somewhat competent leader, let alone a saint. My problem isn’t that a bad leader had been removed from power, it’s that a nation’s right to sovereignty and independence has been violated.
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Ok, well they’re going to continue to be ruled without their consent, so what’s your point?
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Maduro may be an awful dictator, but Trump just basically kidnapped a head of state with only his own authorization. Congress never authorized it. This sets a precedent that the president of the United States can detain heads of state without any oversight.
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That might mean something if there were any realistic chance that this would result in something better and more democratic, but both given how Trump acts and how US intervention in Central and South America typically goes, odds are that whoever they find will just be a puppet dictator out to extract resources to the benefit of US companies.
“Everybody is in favor on deposing Maduro, but when you kidnap him, oh, you’ve suddenly gone too far”
(PS. This is sarcasm)
he is going to play runescape
I could absolutely see trump trimming armor