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Should be a wild four years.

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First question, how the hell did they successfully smash and grab a dictator, bin laden was in a regular house with a handful of bodyguards and they couldn't take him alive. This is a head of state and they managed to take him with zero American causalities. Regardless of anything this operation is a God damn achievement.
Bin Laden was a lifelong guerilla fighter and warleader. He spent most of his life armed and paranoid moving from cave to cave.

Maduro is a slovenly hedonist bus driver who has rarely known actual danger. He was probably captured in bed, piss drunk with 3 13 year old Chinese sex slaves.
Is trump going to occupy the country in an attempt to bring order (starting a jungle quagmire) or will it be a hope that it will be sunshine and daisys as the country stabilizes itself (it won't).
Venezuela does still have a functional opposition movement. They are probably being leveraged to stand up a quasi legit "constitutional government". Backed by US Special forces and crushing air power.
I wonder what the death squads are going to be called this time.
Welcome to Latin America. Venezuela is however the best hope to break the narco capitalist cycle. Pre Chavez Venezuela was wealthy and modern thanks to oil. Chavez and Maduro fucked that up and cratered their oil industry. Basing the economy on something other than narcotics that brings in more money at less risk is the ideal if overly optimistic solution.

But yeah there will be some murders. The regular Venezuelan Military will fall in behind whoever is cutting the paychecks. But the Chavistas the Bolivarian Guard will need to be brutally exterminated by whoever ends up in charge.

Now where it will get interesting is who much of those Death Squads are. They are Cuban. Maduro was a Cuban Puppet. What happens when the Cuban Chavistas start "fighting back" in Caracas? The short answer is the Cuban Regime was decapitated last night. They just have not realized it yet. Their energy supply was severed. Their income was severed. The Russians cannot help them. The Chinese cannot help them. And Trump just told Cuban Leaders he can grab them at his leisure.

I'm not saying there are not some deeply concerning long term outcomes from last night. Small weak dictatorships will be scrambling to acquire insurance. WMD'S and the protection of powerful states. Which means Cold War is Back Baby! That's gonna have consequences.
 
Because It doesn't actually matter what any law says. if the government truly wants to do something it'll find a justification to do it, including having the military point guns at schoolchildren and threaten to stab them with bayonets if they don't sit next to a nigger.
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This again? Is that poor lady still alive? If so, give her my number.
 
so are we taking venezuela as a TERRITORY or are we just going to puppeteer it?
Looking like we will just wind up puppeteering it for the foreseeable future.

However, it SHOULD become a US territory, and one day eligible for Statehood if we can clean it up. Would be a major asset.
 
I have heard about the recent attack in Venezuela, but never the WHY. I'm guessing that Venezuela was a drug sanctioned country? Only reason I would care if it uses taxpayer money.
Trump was pretty clear that Maduro needed to go for the oil.

However, it SHOULD become a US territory, and one day eligible for Statehood if we can clean it up. Would be a major asset.
It sounds like it's a US colony now.
 
This strike against Venezuela and the capturing of Maduro is quite impressive plus the fact they bombed the tomb of Chavez for shits and giggles makes it even better.
1. China and Russia are deprived of an ally in the America's
2. The real winner of the Venezuelan might take power
3. best of all No american casualties and very minimal Venezuelan causalities
I also find it funny how Venezuelans are celebrating in the streets of Caracas, Maracaibo, and international cities like Miami yet mostly white leftist are screeching their heads off over a third world drug trafficking dictator being ousted.

also @Null sticky this thread
 
Part of me thinks this is why the modern Nu-Left is so batshit insane.

The human brain did not evolve to deal with shit like this. Your eyes tell you one thing but you force yourself to disbelieve and "See" something else completely opposite.

I mean, that can't be good for you long term mental health. Eventually you won't be able to tell reality from your fantasy, even when reality kicks your teeth in for being a giant faggot.
Social media in general has broken people's brains (both left and right, in all fairness) in part because people are not evolutionarily capable of caring about so many things involving people so far away. Your brain isn't capable of caring about so many things that don't really touch on your day-to-day life, much less about so many people when you're really only evolved to care about the ~150 people in your clan/tribe. Sure, the narratives and distortion of reality hurts, too. But when you see TDS-afflicted individuals (or the Palestine lovers, etc.), it's almost certainly because they've overinvested themselves into the problems that will never really affect them, and in people they'll never meet. It literally drives them insane.

I earnestly urge everyone reading this to try taking a break from social media and non-local news for a week or two and see how it affects their mood. I've done it multiple times (including not paying attention to A&H) and each time I feel better about life and the world once I stop putting any attention to things over which I can't control and people who I'll never see or meet.
 
lmao livenowfox went to the commies bitching outside the white house
'NO WAR IN VENEZUELA'
you're in luck, bitch
there IS no war, just a roflstomp
 
I'm not saying there are not some deeply concerning long term outcomes from last night. Small weak dictatorships will be scrambling to acquire insurance. WMD'S and the protection of powerful states. Which means Cold War is Back Baby! That's gonna have consequences
We will reconquer Cuba before they get nukes (again). Frankly the entirety of LatAM is up for grabs at this point with the new Donroe Doctrine
 
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