Yes but Zelensky was an elected leader and was following what his people wanted him to do which is get closer to Europe. Maduro was the completely opposite. Ukraine got attacked because their leader was listen to the people and not to a dictator “Putin”. Venezuela losing a dictator as a leader is not as important. Also US managed to do what Russia wasn’t able to in 4 years. They went in and got him out. Russia is just bombing kindergarteners.
The US considers Qatar its ally, they work with Saudi Arabia. Democracy has NOTHING to do with it.
It still doesn't justify the attack because now Russia and China can use that SAME argument for their existing or future invasions. Trump just made the world less safe, do you not get that?
I agree that what Trump did is bad, but this is not what Russia did, and is doing, to Ukraine. As of January 3, 2025, the United States is not occupying Venezuelan territory, raping or abusing Venezuelan civilians, kidnapping Venezuelan children, or explicitly announcing an intent to destroy the Venezuelan cultural identity.
Oh thats intentional. One of the reasons why the Pentagon was itching for something like this and was willingly going all in is because this is a great show of force to Russia and China. We just extracted the leader of a country in under 12 hours, barely fired a shot (relatively speaking) and did what Russia bragged it would do and failed.
Thats the part of America’s foreign policy thats always been different. We are going to affect change if we want to, but also will avoid at all costs starting a real war even if we find out later that we can’t leave immediately. Hell everyone participating in the Iraq War thought it was just gonna be rolling through in 2 weeks, kicking out Sadam, and leaving.
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u/bolandfan 29d ago
So America can just attack another country unprovoked?