It's bullshit and I don't understand why our Congress is letting him do this. It's unjustified and illegal.
Because your congress is deepthroating that fucking child rapist. That's why.
Not just him, every billionaire gets their turn.
What about your military staff (Generals and the likes) Aren't they supposed to refuse illegal orders even from potus?
Aren't they supposed to refuse illegal orders even from potus?
Yes. Yes they are supposed to.
All the ones that would, have been replaced.
That's why I get pissed about stories of the variety "X resigns rather than follow administrations orders". People seem to cheer when that happens because they see it as people pushing back on illegal orders, but they're not. They're just bailing from responsibility when they were one of the few people in the position to legitimately be a stopgap on this runaway power abuse. In resigning, they've just made it easier for a loyalist or morally corrupt replacement to come in and roll out the red carpet to the autocracy. Stay right where the fuck you're at, plant your feet, and tell them that you're absolutely not following illegal orders from anyone. That is worth cheering.
Congress has not wanted the responsibility to declare war that the Constitution gave them in Article 1 Section 8.
Ever since the civil war, Congress has handed more and more military power over to the Executive branch.
If you don't understand then you haven't been paying attention to US history.
It’s bullshit and I don’t understand why our Congress is letting him do this. It’s unjustified and illegal.
You still haven't understand yet that your government is rigged as fuck?
I'm sorry. What we're doing is wrong. It shouldn't be happening.
It's not "we". It's about 7 people.
It's we. It's our government. It's our country. Any action or inaction is on all US citizens.
It takes more than 7 people to produce a fighter jet.
It takes more than 7 people to launch, fly, and navigate a fighter jet.
It takes more than 7 people to kidnap an acting head of state.
The US military is complicit. The US military infustrustrial complex is complicit.
I'm not sure if I would consider US voters complicit, most of us are rendered powerless by the current electoral system, but we've sure got a lot of blood on our hands.
The us is a country of what? 400M people? Are you telling me 400M people can't just kick those 7 assholes? Nah mate, it's "you". Because if it's just 7 people, then it's still "you" who are letting them do this.
I'm from Denmark, and I think it's just a matter of time before it's Greenland in the news.
Unfortunately, as an American, I think that is an accurate prediction.
Stay safe OP, you and your family.
I hope this "special operation" results in blowback specifically for Trump himself.
All sovereign countries deserve independence and freedom from invasion.
all the propaganda out on reddit, defending him, "oh because hes a dictator he needs to be removed". plus Republican venuzuleans are celebrating it though/.
lets not forget its a distraction from the epstein files, plus Smiths testinomy recently too.
Sorry you're all scared. That's awful. I'm in the US wondering when we marginalized folks in the LGBT community are getting sent to concentration camps. People are scared here too. Sorry they are awful people. I assume protest will flare up in US this week. Already had one in my home town today from what I hear. Solidarity...
As an American, we may hate him more than you do right now. I'm sorry this is happening, the oligarchs just want Venezuela's largest crude oil reserve because greedy corporations (ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhilips, Halliburton, etc.) want more control over a dying planet. America has done this to Latin American countries 12 times in the last ~100 years, and went to war for 30+ years in the Middle East for oil too, so this is nothing new from an imperialism perspective.
As an American, we may hate him more than you do right now.
You hate him more than people literally fearing for their lives because of his actions? I am sorry, but I don’t believe you.
Yeah I personally am not fearing for my life (yet) due to him enacting violence in my city (yet). Actually that's kind of not true with ICE, but yeah I agree it's not quite the same, and citizens of Caracas are suffering more right now.
However, there's a longer history that US citizens have had to deal with, and we hate him. Hundreds of thousands or millions of people cut off from food, medicine, housing. Millions of job losses due to his corruption with Musk. There's about 700 other things that we've personally dealt with. But yeah, in this exact moment, we haven't had our city bombed and our leader abducted (yet), so acutely OP dislikes America maybe more.
I'm really sorry for you all over there. Even more sorry for I truely fear the rest of the world will only say "Mr. President, sir, was this really a good idea?" and then accept any responce he gives.
I hope you know that Americans didn't want this either. The world is praying for you.
Part of the usonians didn't want this. A non-irrelevant part actively voted for this, and another non-irrelevant part couldn't care enough to vote so indirectly allowed this.
I'm completely flabbergasted by our actions. Apologies aren't enough to begin to address what we did, but I'm so sorry that my government has chosen to terrorize you and the people around you.
Which military is patrolling? Asking bc information is not being shared correctly through mainstream channels. Does USA actually have control of the country?
La Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana, our Army.
If I had seen US soldiers, I would have crashed out.
I saw that the TV stations are still broadcasting pro-Maduro stuff, I don't think the US is actually in control in Venezuela.
Yep the world doesn't feel safer. I am far from being informed enough to have a proper opinion on Maduro, and I have big doubts about the opposition as well. However I totally disagree with USA taking over anywhere. Hope you guys manage to find a few good leaders to see you through this mess.
The big problem with this is who is next? the US always had the power to do this but now that its actually doing it with bogus madeup reasoning... Is Canada next? Greenland? Mexico? Costa Rica?
I am so sorry. I am in the third that hates Trump and I feel helpless.
Mucha fuerza desde España, todos aquí estamos con vosotros. Espero que puedas estar seguro y ojalá encontréis la fuerza para llegar a un futuro mejor pronto.
Como ciudadano de a pié haré toda la presión que pueda para que los gobiernos europeos encuentren sus huevos y se opongan de verdad a esta mierda
My apologies will never carry enough weight to balance against what our mistakes at home have done to affect you and your loved ones. Nonetheless, my heart goes out to you, and I apologize for what we've let happen.
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