USA attacks Venezuela

nah, the official GOP line in the trenches is that war was to stop the flow of drugs to the USA. Have to keep hammering home the oil story.

We will see very soon if this is true…

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”This is completely unreported. It is an internal coup. I believe it will very soon become clear that Maduro's vice president Delcy Rodríguez (@delcyrodriguezv) has made a deal with the Americans.
That's why it was possible for the Americans to capture Maduro so easily - Delcy Rodríguez simply betrayed him and made a backroom deal with the Americans that she becomes the new president.
Trump mentioned it explicitly at the press conference just held, but none of the journalists caught it.
This means the regime still holds power—and yes, this may also be the deal Trump has made with Putin. It is NOT regime change.
And there is no democracy. Maduro is out, but the regime remains.
And Delcy Rodríguez's payment: Venezuela's oil goes to Trump and perhaps Putin. The leader of Venezuela's democratic opposition, María Corina Machado @MariaCorinaYA, can forget about returning to Venezuela—and forget about democracy.
It honestly feels rather Vichy-like.”

God you're dumb...

Iraq, 2003:

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US is claiming she has been sworn in already as the new president. Why would the US allow someone high up in the Maduro regime to continue... unless she were already committed to being a US puppet? So she probably has agreed to be a puppet.

I give her a week before some general decides she has to go. Would not like to be the life insurance company holding a policy on her life.

Forgive this guy, he didn’t have an opportunity to learn a lesson from how Americans treat their afghan helpers and their families.

Some international reactions:

Spain questioning legality, France calling for the results of the 2024 election to be upheld, Zelensky suggesting the same should be done with Putin, Israel fully onboard with Trump:

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Live: Trump says US 'will run' Venezuela after Maduro 'captured' in daring raid

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The US has "captured" Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife during an early-morning raid, which saw US military strike targets within the capital Caracas and in several other states. Follow live.

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And that's the thing, Trump rolled out the red carpet for wanted war criminal Putin, hosting him at the White House, wined and dined him, instead of capturing him and delivering him to the Hague for prosecution. It's the hypocrisy of how he treated Putin that grates on me, a war criminal with a warrant out for his arrest and Trump let him get away. Today's actions should have been done properly through the UN, but it's not like Maduro is any great loss. He wasn't the legitimate president of Venezuela, so it's not really a problem that he was taken out, it's just the way Trump has gone about it that's the problem and the fact that he did nothing to capture Putin when he had the chance. And also that he's planning on taking over himself, instead of helping install the rightful winners of the 2024 elections.

After Biden's withdrawal? The worst withdrawal of all time?

This is probably the most childish thing I've ever read on letsrun. haha

Regime change propaganda worked well on you. Funny how you complain about him meeting with Putin but don't mention how Netanyahu visited him 5 times.

Yes, it’s totally Biden’s fault. Biden is Trump’s boss.

In 2025, the Trump administration took multiple actions to restrict, revoke, or not renew legal protections for thousands of Afghan refugees and evacuees in the United States, arguing that conditions in Afghanistan had improved sufficiently for their return
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Key actions taken in 2025 include:
Termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS): In May 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the end of TPS for over 11,000 Afghans, with the termination taking effect in July. This designation had previously allowed them to live and work in the U.S. temporarily.
Suspension of Immigration Applications: The administration halted the processing of new immigration applications, including for asylum and green cards, from Afghan nationals in late 2025.
Humanitarian Parole Review: The administration moved to terminate "humanitarian parole" for thousands of Afghans who entered the U.S. after the 2021 fall of Kabul, leaving them at risk of deportation.
Resettlement Program Shutdown: The administration suspended refugee resettlement and shuttered programs designed to assist Afghan allies.

Of course it's about oil, western hemisphere domination by the US, a return to 19th century mercantilism and world order realignment (three big dogs--US, Russia, China--running things). The current US administration's aims were publicly announced unequivocally a few weeks ago:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

The woke fringe of the Democrat party's idea of "human rights" is taxpayer funded transgender surgeries for prisoners and minors. Then I don't care about human rights

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Sources report that Trump is so pleased with his military success that Hegseth is drawing up war plans to capture the Honduran dictator that he just let go.

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A lot of that is staying out of other countries' affairs and not trying to push Western values / "values" on them. Some countries (especially in the Middle East) have a long, proud, and distinguished history of monarchies and we shouldn't try to force them to abandon their traditions. What we should focus on instead is mutually beneficial partnerships.

this is a trumper saying that the US should not push its values on people, even as trump takes over a sovereign foreign nation and threatens multiple more nations with a similar fate, including a NATO member.

WTF?

Maduro banned pornography and Usury (Jewish Values). No surprise Zion Don did Israel's bidding again.

And: capturing Maduro made the World a much safer place. In addition to the historic peace prizes he already won - the FIFA Peace Prize and Israel Peace Prize - he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.