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re: Anyone upset about this has no grasp of anything in a geopolitical sense

Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:04 am to
Posted by SDVTiger
Cabo San Lucas
Member since Nov 2011
98113 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:04 am to
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This just helped cripple Iran as well. They are in panic mode


And that Colombian Prez. I bet he wishes he could take back some comments

Oh and Cuba cant be stoked
Posted by Vacherie Saint
Member since Aug 2015
47575 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:05 am to
This was an essentially a coup by Venezuelan opposition group that were duly elected in 2024. All we did was fly in, nudge them over the line, and collect our bounty. There were reports moments after the strikes that the opposition leaders were already moving into government buildings. Based on Vance’s comments, there was also some level of negotiated “off ramp” cooperation from Maduro himself.

This has very little to do with China, Hezbollah, Cartel de Los Soles, TdA, or all of the other issues that have plagued the US. This seems more internally born.
This post was edited on 1/3/26 at 8:09 am
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
79985 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:05 am to
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The backbone of neocon philosophy is using military force to establish democracies abroad via regime change
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We'll see.
Posted by j1897
Member since Nov 2011
4623 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:06 am to
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1. China is working on footholds in the western hemisphere. Literally were there yesterday working on an agreement. This cannot happen.


China owns us, and now, thanks to a geriatric idiot, they have precedent to kidnap our elected leader.

Your grandkids will not like the world you made for them.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
476856 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:07 am to
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Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We'll see.


It's not about whether it works or not. MAGA (and many individuals who support MAGA) claimed to reject neocon foreign policy.

Now those same people are cheering for it.
Posted by Toomer Deplorable
Team Bitter Clinger
Member since May 2020
24857 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:08 am to
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1. China is working on footholds in the western hemisphere. Literally were there yesterday working on an agreement. This cannot happen.

2. They also push drugs and you have Islamic terrorists flocking to the country. Again, cannot happen in the western hemisphere.

3. You can call us the big bully to the north all you want, but the Venezuelan people can control their destinies again and put an end to a massive humanitarian crisis second only to Syria. All of you concerned about people flooding north should be happy because this helps stem that.


O.K.

So your argument here this is a reestablishment of the Monroe Doctrine?

Well and fine, if so.

Yet does this means the United States will disengage militarily from Asia and Eastern Europe?

I think all honest people know the answer to that question.





This post was edited on 1/3/26 at 8:09 am
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
79985 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:09 am to
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It's not about whether it works or not. MAGA (and many individuals who support MAGA) claimed to reject neocon foreign policy.

Now those same people are cheering for it
Ah, true. Well they like almost anything he does. Im flexible on it.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:10 am to
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China owns us,


The stupidity on this board is epic
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
75157 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:11 am to
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We're already out of there.

You think so?
Posted by ClemsonKitten
Member since Aug 2025
914 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:11 am to
I thought Trump wasn’t a neocon
Posted by Evolved Simian
Bushwood Country Club
Member since Sep 2010
23265 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:12 am to
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Agreed but wish we would also stop the terrorists flocking to our country.


We already did that.
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
79985 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:13 am to
It's not different when the US does it? They're the same as the Soviets, the CCP, Muslim extremists, etc.? If they are the same, why do people choose to flock to this country when given the choice? Did they flock to those other meddlers?
Posted by Toomer Deplorable
Team Bitter Clinger
Member since May 2020
24857 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:18 am to
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We'll see.


I have made it emphatically clear that I am opposed to these regime change policies because of the unforeseen consequences — both immediate and long term — that necessarily follow these events.

Yet if Maduro is actually ousted, I am curious about what happens with Zelensky.

Is this part of a larger chess game with Russia to trade one global pawn for another?

This post was edited on 1/3/26 at 8:20 am
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
476856 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:22 am to
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Yet if Maduro is actually ousted, I am curious about what happens with Zelensky.

Zelensky?

The comparison would be Putin.
Posted by RelicBatches86
Florida
Member since Nov 2024
1535 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:22 am to
Posted by au4you
Alabama
Member since Dec 2010
3170 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:23 am to
It’s 2003 again. Remeber to trust your government!
Posted by dickkellog
little rock
Member since Dec 2024
2927 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:23 am to
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Neoconservativism is back on the menu, boys.


no child, this isn't neoconservationism we're not there to teach little girls to read or give women the right to vote and spread the love of the baby jesus, this is old fashioned reagan conservatism, we came we saw we kicked your a*s.

so easy even a phony interweb lawyer can understand it
Posted by Vacherie Saint
Member since Aug 2015
47575 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:25 am to
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SFP was right (again)


Ever notice how no one ever says this?
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
476856 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:27 am to
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Ever notice how no one ever says this?

Emotions and group-based identification are strange things.
Posted by AllThatJazz
Member since Dec 2025
23 posts
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:27 am to
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Yup its the typicals. SFP, Cucker and Bunk
Barnacles on a Battleship.
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