[beng-nl]

I could go along with this to some degree if any country would be able to act the same way the USA is doing; then there would be a balance of power. But as it is, only a small number of powerful nations are able to act like this, without military repercussions.

So if Venezuela wanted to forcefully reverse a coup in the USA? Or Canada wanted to reverse election fraud in the USA?

They can’t. So the USA shouldn’t either.

Unless you can tolerate living by the whim of a more powerful bully.

Which I, as a non-us resident/citizen, am forced to tolerate now, but don’t like.

So no, I don’t think nations can justify interfering in sovereign nations by force for any reason.

[literalAardvark]

Peace has only ever been achieved by waving around a big stick.

This is one such event.

[tdeck]

The history of central and south America is littered with such events, committed by the US. I guess that's why those countries are all so safe and prosperous. Nicaragua and Haiti got it twice so they're doing fantastic right now!

[erxam]

Nuclear armament is the only way to guarantee your safety.

Cuba is going to fall next, and then Nicaragua, and then Brazil, probably.

The DPRK is not going to.

[meowface]

The whole point of that saying is the carrying of the stick, not smashing someone in the head with it and scooping their brains out with a scalpel.

Maduro was a terrible dictator but toppling governments requires stronger justification, like active, extreme mass killing.

[fennecbutt]

If it was about peace and rebuilding their economy oil would have been mentioned as US companies move in to help them leverage their resources AT COST.

Instead, the joke about the US invading for oil proves true once again, and look at everyone fooled by the justification for it. Maduro a bad person? Yeah duh...so why US moving in to take profits from their oil as well as supporting politicians there who were allied with Maduro...

US are liars. And Venezuelans on here gonna act happy bc Maduro gone. But just you wait, 30 years will go by then Venezuelans will be crying about reparations for their natural resources being raped by the US.

[ycombinary]

Venezuela will never invade the US now, fr.

And everyone is now giving proper consideration to that important fact and forgetting those pesky domestic issues.

[drnick1]

> They can’t. So the USA shouldn’t either.

That's not the way international relations work.