RollTide1987

Has to go to the motorcyclist popping a wheely in Caracas as bombs fall in the background.

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But I guarantee you if anyone besides Trump did this, the MAGA crowd would be crying as much as the anti-maga crowd is now. I'm just trying to point out the hypocrisy.

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Maybe, maybe not. I can tell you that as someone who tries to understand real politik, this was a good move and I would have applauded it if it had been made by Zohran Mamdami.

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seems he's doing the same old things we've always been doing

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Protecting American interests in our hemisphere?

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Venezuela was no threat to the US, or anyone else for that matter.

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Definitely not.

However, Maduro was facilitating China and Russia in our hemisphere. That is a threat.

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I’m aware that war with the Soviets was real. The Soviets have been dead for 35 years and has no bearing on why we are currently going after Venezuela - because Monroe Doctrine and Russia/China according to you - but not Cuba.

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Then you should also be aware that Cuba is a non-entity who relied on Maduro to continue propping up their government/economy. Maduro in turn was relying on China and Russia to prop up his government/economy.

Cuba has nothing to offer us. Venezuela has money and they have oil. Those two things make them a valuable commodity that the Chinese and Russians were attempting to exploit at the expense of the United States. The Monroe Doctrine thus applies in this particular situation. Cuba, while a communist government with ties to foreign regimes, has nothing to offer the world but tobacco.

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So when are we going after Cuba?

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Yeah, so...about Cuba. I'm sure you've heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the deals we hammered out with Russia to avert nuclear war? While it's true that those deals are (probably) no longer valid as the Soviet government no longer exists, we promised never to invade Cuba if they removed their nuclear missiles.

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Should this be our foreign policy then?

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In the western hemisphere? Most certainly per the Monroe Doctrine that has been our modus operandi since the early-19th century. Maduro was in bed with China and Russia (our two biggest geopolitical foes). That is on top of the obvious drug trafficking he was involved in.

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Not Roll Tide anymore. Rolled By Hoosiers...

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So isn't it still Roll Tide then? Because we did technically roll.

What a waste.