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Yes, exactly, and if the USA can do what they please why should other countries comply with it? It creates a dangerous precedent and an example for other authoritarian regimes. And I am afraid that Venezuela is just the beginning.
Venezuela is not the beginning. America has always been a terrorist state. You just have the memory of a goldfish.
Calvinball-based international order
Everybody with nukes does as the please. US, Russia, China, North Korea, Israel...
The US hasn't really suffered any serious consequences, yet. Similar to China. Russia didn't until Ukraine, before that they messed in Chechnya, Georgia, etc with impunity. I don't see anyone coming to the aid of Tibet or the uyghurs either, China is pretty scot free.
and Ukraine only because it borders Europe
Some would argue 'is in Europe "even.
Very very minor. Some strongly worded letters and symbolic sanctions. They could have kept crimea and most of the donbas and in a decade things would have gone back to normal.
Wasn't it RIP with Iraq? Or Afghanistan? Or Vietnam?
This is a childish and wrong way of understanding politics. "Orange man bad", although a true statement, doesn't explain USA geopolitics, which are largely bipartisan.
You say congress played no part, yet most of congress (even most democrats) don't condemned the actions themselves, only the lack of protocol followed. Half of EU politicians are celebrating too.
The entire purpose of economic sanctions on Venezuela is to prevent free elections, because free elections gave rise to the Bolivarian revolution. This is not me making it up, this is literally the US policy as said by themselves with economic sanctioning:
By arguing about elections without taking sanctions into account, you're just being a CIA stooge
The document: Cubans are overwhelmingly in support of communism, so we need to starve them
The most "democratic" westerner: OF COURSE WE STARVED THEM, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TWO PARTIES
Just so you know: US + EU economic sanctions have murdered 38 million people in the past 50 years, and continue to murder half a million yearly. "Tame suppression"
I updated my response with scientific medical evidence that US and EU sanctions directly murder half a million people a year. You are literally a murderous maniac if you support that.
For fucks sake, the document literally says "TO BRING ABOUT HUNGER AND DESPERATION", you obtuse motherfucker
IT IS NOT ME BLAMING ANYTHING, IT'S THE USA ADMITTING THIS THEMSELVES BY SAYING "WE WANT TO BRING HUNGER AND DESPERATION", AND IT'S SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE OF THE EFFECTS OF SANCTIONS.
USA: "WE LITERALLY WANT TO STARVE CUBA BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO REMOVE POPULAR SUPPORT FROM COMMUNISM"
Smartest imperialism apologist: "smh can't believe you're blaming anyone else than the commies"
Good lord you ARE obtuse
Barbary Wars - 1801
Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You know what I mean?
They never existed because we never had a real international police to enforce them. They kinda felt real because the US kinda acted like this police.
Team America: World Police was a documentary.