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Prediction: this headline will be renamed "US invades Venezuela" very soon.
Footage is quickly spreading, looks like strikes on military bases as well as a bunch of low-flying helicopters, so a strike + a ground invasion? They didn't even try very hard to manufacture consent for a war against Venezuela. Wonderful.
It will be pretty amusing to watch all those westerners who, not so long ago, were talking about "rules based order" pretend nothing is happening or to justify it.
Always remember the role of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in preparing this unprovoked and illegal (under international law) attack on Venezuela by awarding the prize to María Corina Machado.

Julian Assange actually filed a Swedish criminal complaint against Nobel Foundation officials, alleging misappropriation of Nobel endowment funds and facilitating war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado, and it seeks immediate freezing of funds and a full investigation: https://just-international.org/articles/assanges-criminal-co...

They're American aircraft. It sure seems like after repeatedly threatening to invade Venezuela, Trump is now invading Venezuela. For what though?
Don't know why, this link gives me:

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I think something like The Hague is the moderate position with this administration.
It is definitely not Russia unprovokenly and illegibly attacking its neighbor, so why even care?
How does this differ from Russia invading Ukraine?

We have to wake up to the world where USA no longer cares about ideals like liberal democracy or allies, but is a warmongering corporatist autocracy.

after Iran and now venezuela

Iran, I totally understand that if they want to acquire nuclear weapon but Venezuela ????

what are they want to do in Venezuela ????? Oil ??

I think it will be regarded as a poor move long term to so boldly put the us stamp on what will undoubtedly become a chaotic situation over the next decade or two

I'm admittedly somewhat ignorant of all the details but I don't see what the real benefit is

my only guess is that it's to disincentivize the Russians and Chinese from being more involved in South America but it feels like it could do the opposite and act as an annoying wedge

So, uh, anyone seeing any educated guesses as to what we're bombing?
Is that the beginning of a three-days special military operation?
Gotta get those gasoline prices down before the midterms.
Combat footage is coming out by the minute. Watching it, I don't understand how Americans can be so fundamentally evil. Watching helicopters gun people on the ground down. What makes you so sick in the head that you would do this? How could you obey these orders and feel nothing as you slaughter innocent people? There isn't even any possible pretext to this invasion. They know what they're doing and still choose to do it. It's utterly incomprehensible.
Chinese envoy was meeting Maduro just hours ago in Miraflores. Wonder how that factors into the situation
Did this thread get down-rated on HN due to too many comments? Please keep one main thread on this alive. Thanks.
So the USA is officially a roque state internally and externally and was brought down by its very own law and order party. Poetic.
That easily makes a Nobel Peace Prize. An attack on Iran will make it into the world's first Double Nobel Peace Prize.

Now, it's also very important to even further unite the entire world against Russian agressive war.

Turns out Douglas Dykhouse really meant this years US New Year wishes when he said "Americans and Russians share the same values".
There has been no congressional declaration of war, no AUMF, no nothing, right?

The congress people who are military veterans recently put out a public service announcement reminding those in the military that they must refuse illegal orders, and Trump called that reminder of the law "treasonous" and said the veterans should be executed for reminding people of the law.

There should be military tribunals for all involved here to ensure that law and order is maintained. The US is losing its constitution, its rule of law. There is not country if we have two different sets of laws, one for normal people but zero laws for those following rhe president's wishes. That's a monarchy.