The precedent is sent. Abducting, killing, striking heads of state is now on the table. Make of that what you will, world.
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Israel already killed Yemen's president
Please Xi... please
China has all but said that they're going to let the US treat South America as its backyard. I don't expect any help or solidarity from them.
The only hope was Russia coming through for Venezuela but I wasn't convinced that this was anything more than bluster or geopolitical jockeying.
Who knows if there was actually any moves to advance this and, even if it did have enough time to get implemented, what use would it have been if the Venezuelan military had (apparently) been bought off or ordered to stand down by a seditious general or two? I mean, it's not like it would have been the first time for the Venezuelan military to betray the government and the people.
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Just remember that although these people may look and behave like devils, they are bags of meat no more durable than any other human.
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What a grim and depressing thing to wake up to. 
Been glued to the live news all morning, can't unsee the bombed city. The billowing smoke gives me shades of Chile in 1973:
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Dark times. I hope the fumble this one just like they did some two decades ago with Chavez but I don't have high hopes.
With Chavez he always remained in the country. I think in this case, if it's true he's been successfully captured and flown out by the US, it might be over for Maduro. The rest of the government remains.
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It's getting harder by the day not to fedpost, but I really do fucking hate these YanKKKee scum.
I know the feeling of trying really hard to hold it in, because I wish nothing but bullets to the head of the criminal imperialists and their accomplices.
When is the world gonna sanction the US as hard as they've done Russia?
Petition to refer to this and all upcoming US wars of imperialism as "special military operations" when talking to libs, just so it will get under their skin by highlighting their opportunistic, selective antiwar and anti-"dictatorship" political posturing.
I've seen American chuds argue in the past that the US has never lost a war (this was a long time ago, before Afghanistan and Iraq) because Vietnam wasn't a war, it was a ”military operation”.
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I want to point out that the reason that Trump kidnapped Maduro is because Trump believes that the US owns Venezuela's oil fields.
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Make sure to start using the phrase "Venezuela has the right to defend itself" IRL in the coming days.
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The US is a pathetic bully and a blight on the free world
Can't stand this line being parroted about how '8 million refugees fled the Maduro regime', when the reality is that they fled a country whose economy was being strangled by the USA to the point of collapse. The USA openly admits they were essentially holding the Venezuelan people hostage by destroying the economy - presenting two options: live in poverty or overthrow Maduro.
If this ends in a new right wing Venezuelan comprador government, there will be an 'economic miracle', and the west will report that Venezuela has been saved. The reality is that the sanctions would be taken off the economy, and a large extraction of wealth would take place within the oil sector, thus inflating GDP. In the short term, the people of Venezuela will see an increase in quality of life - a quality of life they never would have lost in the first place were it not for U.S encirclement. I'm sure a lot of Venezeulans won't fight the change in government because it means a (perhaps temporary) reprieve from poverty, and peoples material circumstances are, as we all know, the bottom line.
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Seeing libs and chuds sealioning and act like the pedo, genocide perpetrating racist regime is the "lesser evil" in this case has been annoying. Still saying authoritarian venezuela like trump didn't float annexing canada greenland Panama not long ago 
How odd. Libs who were acting like Trump was the spawn of all evil and the sole fascist actor in all of American politics are now buddying up with reactionaries in supporting Trump and invading another sovereign country to steal their resources while pretending it's all for the greater good? I'm shocked! Positively shocked!
Fuck these libs istg
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Colombia President Gustavo Petro new tweet translated
https://xcancel.com/petrogustavo/status/2007386206292545629#m
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The world has an obligation to eliminate the US.
Americans have an obligation to clean up our own mess, China and Russia won’t come and do it for us, every person affected from a murdered Palestinian child to Maduro himself is on our hands
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Tf man, wildest twist. Has me even angrier, all that damage and (presumably) loss of life to kidnap a world leader. Americans are going to use the fact they were so 'precise' and 'just went after the president' to justify forgetting about it all and leaving Venezuela to rot.
The western world thought that the pager bombings in Lebanon were precise, too, next time anyone says that I'll punch them in the fucking face and say that I was 'precisely' aiming for an eyelash
Westerners are not against terrorist attacks, they are against terrorist attacks that happen to them
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i cant believe the president who traffics underage girls would kidnap a grown ass man
l didn't expect 2026 to not be crazy dogshit.
But COME ON, its only just 2nd of January...
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What the fuck? Trump and everyone involved with that needs to be 
Fucking chuds "communism doesn't work"! But when it does and it resists then you ignore all laws and rules to criminally murder and disappear people.
They invite blowback. They invite attacks on the USA and it would be completely justified.
They've got Vanessa Neumann - Guaido's former official ambassador to the UK - on BBC news spouting nonsense about how it's a non violent operation, and is a restoration of democracy. She said her points unchallenged and then was like 'as I said in my last 10 televised interviews with you'. Impartial news moment.
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Well there we have it. No international law left. Hope the US likes war in Taiwan.
the us wants that. they've been doing the most to stoke it
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I wish hell on every lib and fascist in the US. A country of genocidal dogs.
every lib and fascist
Death to the empire. Hopefully this isn't true, but it likely is.
What's the latest chud cope on this? How are they handling their "president of peace"?
maduro communist dictator, ally of Iran, bombing is therefore peaceful
"Surgical strike" and shit like that. They were never against war they were just against getting in a quagmire
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Fuck, it was that easy? This is so fucking bleak, I can't even put it into words without some kind of proscribed reference to Minecraft
Idk, I'm just so fucking done. The world is totally fucked, and it's not gonna be unfucked in my lifetime
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Please, 
viva maduro
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