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re: I have some questions about the military action taken against Venezuela
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:02 am to TiderTom
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:02 am to TiderTom
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Ma’am, we cannot have foreign nations manipulating our hemisphere.
Thank you for respecting an old lady just posting while knitting an American Flag blanket at the home. 
Wait -- why is this brand new policy in 2025?
Please tell me -- why aren't Meh-hee-co or Chy-na or Ysreal's respective hemispheric "influence" and manipulation also being "corrected" or "re-calibrated"?
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Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:07 am to TulsaSooner78
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I understand that we want to damage the cartels. Will this regime-change action get us any closer to accomplishing that goal? If so, how? I need that to be explained to me.
It's a start. From today on, there will be no drug boats coming out of Venezuela. If a boat does come out now, it will be in the eastern Pacific from a Columbian port. We will then focus our wrath on them.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:08 am to DRMPHD
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The real positive to me as I’ve thought about Venezuela recently is that toppling that government sets back China’s plans to increase its influence in the western hemisphere.
Good thing President Trump only ok'd admitting 500,000 Chinese "students" to "study" at America's universities and colleges instead of a million. It's not as though they are an "army", otherwise I'd REALLY be worried about China's "influence" in our hemisphere.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:08 am to TulsaSooner78
Just don’t frick with the US.
End of story.
End of story.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:09 am to EphesianArmor
Interesting things about the videos
Only aircraft flying are helicopters. Military transports. If you’ve followed any of this, there are no jets flying for the Venezuelan military. At last count approx five of the old vintage F-16’s were airworthy. Years of sanctions had the taking parts to keep a plane flying. The same with the Russian aircraft. There is no Air Force.
You have to have worked with people from Venezuela who lost everything.they get their country back.
Only aircraft flying are helicopters. Military transports. If you’ve followed any of this, there are no jets flying for the Venezuelan military. At last count approx five of the old vintage F-16’s were airworthy. Years of sanctions had the taking parts to keep a plane flying. The same with the Russian aircraft. There is no Air Force.
You have to have worked with people from Venezuela who lost everything.they get their country back.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:09 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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why do bad things happen to good people?
Sinatra?
Why do fools fall in love?
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:18 am to bluedragon
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You have to have worked with people from Venezuela who lost everything.they get their country back.
I get that and am sympathetic to their dilemma, but a couple of considerations:
IS the US and its overlord command really interested in restoring freedom and rule of law in Venezuela? Or is the plan really about puppet regime change, establishing an America economic-military beachhead, and co-opting Venezuelan mineral wealth? This looks like....Imperialism in action.
Side note -- You know what other sovereign people basically have lost their respective country and its previous liberties to authoritarianism and tyranny?
Canada. UK. Australia. South Africa. Germany. Frankly, members of the EU.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:21 am to TulsaSooner78
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I typically "stand with Rand" on these matters as I believe it is the Constitutionally-ordained job of Congress to say if we need to be going to war or not.
We didn’t “go to war”, just like when we took out Iran’s nuclear capabilities we didn’t “go to war”.
Surgical strikes, in and out.
What does your son do in the Navy?
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:24 am to EphesianArmor
You’re not going to get any argument from me on Chinese influence in the US. I agree that we have been too naive about Chinese students in our universities and elsewhere. Keeping china out of Venezuela is still a positive development.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:26 am to FLTech
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You haven't been paying too much attention to the ongoing conflict with Venezuela, but worried about your son.. gotcha
Either you are full of shite or Tim Walz Retarded
I checked your posting history. You are a vile and angry person.
If I said to you "the sky is very blue today", you would not kindly explain to me the scientific reasons behind why the sky appears to be blue but in fact is not. Instead, you would simply say "you're a retard", because you are vile and angry.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:28 am to EphesianArmor
In the spirit of civil debate, I would ask you how you know those things aren’t happening?
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:30 am to The Maj
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You left out Russian and Chinese influence just to our south…
Not really keen on military intervention but I support it more on this side of the world than I do on the other side of the world…
Might the actions we have taken again Venezuela trigger the Chinese to respond likewise toward Taiwan?
Note: my son who is in the Navy will soon be deploying to Japan, so any spat we get into with China concerns me.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:31 am to RogerTheShrubber
Why should I pay attention to someone who lives on Section 8?
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:32 am to CitizenK
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Why should I pay attention to someone who lives on Section 8?
Why should I listen to a fricking retard who said less than 30% of Iranians are Muslim?
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:32 am to TulsaSooner78
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Who benefits the most financially from this action?
Chevron
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:40 am to EphesianArmor
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The "You voted for Kamala" crack was sarcasm.
Yeah, I got it after thinking about it for a while.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:41 am to DRMPHD
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The real positive to me as I’ve thought about Venezuela recently is that toppling that government sets back China’s plans to increase its influence in the western hemisphere. China has announced that causing the US to defend its interests in the west is part of its plan to take over Taiwan. Venezuela’s largest oil buyer is China. Moving Venezuela into the US orbit hurts china.
I'm concerned that it gives China a ready-made excuse to act against Taiwan.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:45 am to DRMPHD
Mixed bag, brutha.
If "keeping china out of Venezuela" (or any part of Central or S. America) were actually a deep concern and a goal of the US overlords, they coulda-woulda-shoulda leaned in hard and nipped their influence in the bud at least 20 years ago.
Why did they waited until...2025 to have their "OH NO YA DON'T!!" epiphany and MIC muscle-flex?
If "keeping china out of Venezuela" (or any part of Central or S. America) were actually a deep concern and a goal of the US overlords, they coulda-woulda-shoulda leaned in hard and nipped their influence in the bud at least 20 years ago.
Why did they waited until...2025 to have their "OH NO YA DON'T!!" epiphany and MIC muscle-flex?
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:46 am to TiderTom
Which things "aren't happening" that may be, young man?
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:50 am to EphesianArmor
I understand.
However, we have a Congress with no consideration of the safety and lives of the men and women in this operation.
Shut the hell up Congress.
The ties with communism have been severed. You are aware the body guards for Maduro were Cuban? My best guess is dead Cubans now. Cuba has no capability. China and especially Russia are not located logistically to get involved. Venezuela has oil.they can buy their way to stability. There is Government elected and in place that can take over. We’ll see how this plays out.
However, we have a Congress with no consideration of the safety and lives of the men and women in this operation.
Shut the hell up Congress.
The ties with communism have been severed. You are aware the body guards for Maduro were Cuban? My best guess is dead Cubans now. Cuba has no capability. China and especially Russia are not located logistically to get involved. Venezuela has oil.they can buy their way to stability. There is Government elected and in place that can take over. We’ll see how this plays out.
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