I wouldn’t! 😇

Don't promise me a good time

MAGA would be screaming about it until the end of time if that happened. Because it's different. Somehow.

Don’t get our hopes up

Stop, I can only get so erect.

They'd say "interesting that you'd use China as an example you commie"

Now, that would definitely feel like one of those ultimately rare and rarer "Nature is healing" moments, and everyone would live happily ever after.

Major news organisations in general are really scared when it comes to pointing out things which are extreme, because they believe describing those things as extreme will lead to accusations of sensationalism. The reason they think that is because sensationalist outlets are indeed more likely to describe everything as extreme and make unjustified comparisons to extremities, so major media outlets often think that to be "unbiased" is to refuse to acknowledge that an action is extreme.

Vox described this as the "this is fine" bias.

Once you have replaced the press leadership with lackeys then yes. They had a very very productive 2025 for doing things to eliminate resistance

That is nauseating. These are human lives, 80 people died

DAE all the Lemmings saying that the good men in the military would refuse to carry out unlawful orders because they swore an oath to the Costitution?

Remember when the invasion of Afghanistan got its own theme tune and title sequence?

At least Dr Evil was evilly cool compared to these facists!

Hey if big daddy Putin can do it, why can't diaper Donny?

Not many people are bringing up that the US invaded a country and not only kidnapped a guy, but left a trail of bodies.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-attack-venezuela-death-toll-rises-80-civilians-and-military-personnel-1

Please, we desperately need to be invaded and conquered by the most convenient communist country

Edit: not sarcasm

Dipshits are gonna be greedy, fuck it up and turn it in to an another Afganistan. This time really close to home.

Nobody likes Maduro. They should play with that, take their successful 30min and exit.

Seriously, the US isn't going to be the only country looking to put their finger on the scale in Venezuela. Heck, there's plenty who will do so just to further entangle the US.

As IF he gets anything close to a fair trial. Everything about this kidnapping was illegal to begin with. All world leaders can now be kidnapped in their beds by US Special Forces. What happened to Noriega will happen to Maduro.

Why haven’t they captured genocider Netanyahu?? Oh right…….

So long as you’re fine with whatever consequences the US is willing to impose on you for doing so, this can’t seriously be that hard—right? IIRC, the US just controls the server that signs flight plans? So… worst case scenario, that’s managed by a chip without any write access? Reverse engineer the little chip to ask your own server for permission, no?

Given we’re talking about state-sponsored capabilities here, am I oversimplifying things? I don’t feel like I am.

Who actually believed that justification? Not even the MAGA crowd believe it, they just straight up say its about oil. Back in 2016 they called neocons "rhinos", now MAGA is neocon, cheering for the very same things they previously hated Bush Jr. for.

And you can find as many saying it isn't. Confirmation bias is in play here

The Venezuelan government might. But according to some DW reporting and footage earlier today, the actual reaction of ordinary Venezuelans is mixed, and mostly concern and confusion rather than anger or fear. Maduro is generally not popular in Venezuela but I doubt many people really wanted the US to come and kidnap him. And understandably those who supported him are in the streets calling for his release.

If you told me ten days ago the US would capture Maduro, bomb the shit out of a variety of military sites, and kill a bunch of civilians in the process, I would ask which American navy vessel was attacked to start the war.

But, uh.

Seizing of ships? My sibling in Christ Nicolás Maduro was kidnapped by the USA