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Invasion of Venezuela - Megathread (use for all Venezuela-related news until further notice) (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml
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Please include sources for any claims; baseless speculation is counterproductive. Remember that this is not a win for the US, just another outburst of a dying empire.

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[–] 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Typical American arrogance led to a huge fuck up. This is pretty normal for us.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Ehhh, what's more normal is to actually try? Like obviously Vietnam failed, but they tried [understatement i know]. Panama was arguably a success given what the goals were. This time...the goals are simultaneously super specific but also stupid vague

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  • [+] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Doesn't that also fall under the category of try? Maybe the gulf war could be argued, but they got what they wanted out of it [and the war basically only ended by technicalities. It was more like there was a decade long "truce" where America got to starve Iraqis via sanctions]

    Edit: but I do wanna say that I'm not expecting this to be the end of it. Obviously. I'm more just curious what the original plan was, because i can't understand what said plan was.

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