What does Iraq, Libya and Venezuela have in common?

[JoG2]

What is the reaction from the Venezuelan people to this?

A dictator has been removed. They are delighted.

Oh yes, the Venezuelan people will have seen how well it has worked out for other countries, and delighted they will be

[Tony Baloney]

What is the reaction from the Venezuelan people to this?

A dictator has been removed. They are delighted.

and replaced by another one.

[Armagh18]

Colombia will be next.

It'll probably take a mass revolt from within the US military to stop these lunatics because lets face it no one else has the firepower.

[Banks of the Bann]

I would imagine US friendly RW military dictatorships will be the order of the day.

[Armagh18]

Question is will he remember about Greenland. And if so what does Europe do?

[Tony Baloney]

Question is will he remember about Greenland. And if so what does Europe do?

He will take Greenland. Europe will complain, bit of chit chat in the UN Security Council etc. but ultimately nothing will happen and he'll move onto the next thing. He's the head of the world's biggest crime family.

[seafoid]

What is the reaction from the Venezuelan people to this?

A dictator has been removed. They are delighted.

How did the post invasion work in Iraq and Libya?

[Armagh18]

What is the reaction from the Venezuelan people to this?

A dictator has been removed. They are delighted.

How did the post invasion work in Iraq and Libya?

Absolutely.

How long is it since America sticking their noses into another countries affairs actually benefitted that country?

[Denn Forever]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1517740762672354

[seafoid]

https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2007665390420406419



Ben Norton
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The US attack on Venezuela is part of a larger US imperialist assault on all of Latin America. This is the US empire's plan. It was spelled out clearly in the Trump administration's 2025 National Security Strategy. The US seeks to forcibly impose its hegemony in the entire western hemisphere, reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine (now known as the "Donroe Doctrine"). The plan is for US corporations to control all of the region's strategic natural resources, including critical minerals and rare earth elements. The US wants to create a new supply chain in the western hemisphere that cuts out China, to prepare for future conflict with Beijing. Trump administration officials recognize that manufacturing jobs are not actually coming back to the US, so they admit in the National Security Strategy that they want to "near-shore manufacturing" to Latin America. US corporations hope to exploit low-paid Latin American workers to make their products, cutting out China. This is also why a new US-dominated supply chain in the western hemisphere is needed: not only because the US military-industrial complex needs to remove China from the supply chain for the weapons that it is making to prepare for a potential future war with China; but also because Washington wants to economically decouple from China, and thinks Latin America can help it do that. Moreover, the US empire seeks to control all of the strategic infrastructure in the region. So the Trump administration is going to brazenly threaten Latin American countries to force China to sell any investments it has in infrastructure projects. Trump already forced Panama to pressure the Hong Kong company that owned ports surrounding the Panama Canal to sell them to Wall Street giant BlackRock. It is likely that the US will also target Peru's Port of Chancay, one of the most important ports in the region, which was built by China. Washington could even blackmail Latin American governments to force them to impose restrictions on Chinese investment in the region. The National Security Council shows how the Trump administration is obsessed with trying to force the countries of Latin America to cut off their ties with China. This is Cold War Two. In his first trip abroad as secretary of state, Marco Rubio went to Panama, where he forced the country to withdraw from China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Trump administration is going to massively increase its pressure on other countries in the region to withdraw from the BRI. Likewise, Trump blatantly meddled in Honduras' election in 2025 and backed an electoral coup d'etat. Honduras' new right-wing US puppet regime will likely formally break diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China. The US also wants to use Honduras as a base of operations for attacks on the Sandinista government in neighboring Nicaragua. After bombing and occupying Venezuela, Trump and Marco Rubio want to carry out similar imperialist regime-change wars on Nicaragua and Cuba. Rubio has dedicated his entire career to overthrowing their socialist revolutions. It is a political crusade for him. The Trump administration's goal is simple: to impose right-wing US puppet regimes in every country in Latin America, which will obediently serve the interests of Washington and Wall Street, and sell off their assets to US investors. Two important elections are coming up in 2026 in countries with left-wing governments: Brazil (in October) and Colombia (in May). It is guaranteed that the Trump administration is going to meddle in those elections to try to put in power obedient right-wing US puppets (like Javier Milei in Argentina). Trump is also threatening to bomb Mexico, which has a very popular left-wing, independent government. Mexico has strongly opposed these US threats, saying they would be an attack on Mexico's sovereignty. But the US empire doesn't care a bit about sovereignty. The superficial, puerile rhetoric about "democracy" that we hear from Western officials and pundits is ridiculous. It is impossible for the countries of Latin America (and the Global South as a whole) to practice democracy when the world's most powerful and deadliest empire is constantly interfering in their elections, attacking them, imposing sanctions on them, and sponsoring coups. True democracy is impossible while imperialism exists

[Banks of the Bann]

Imagine if there was a military alliance that all these Latin American countries could join that would make it next to impossible for the US to bully, threaten, intimidate and invade them.

Would Mexico, Colombia, Cuba etc joining such a hypothetical alliance be 'warmongering' and poking the US Bear?

[AustinPowers]

Question is will he remember about Greenland. And if so what does Europe do?

He will take Greenland. Europe will complain, bit of chit chat in the UN Security Council etc. but ultimately nothing will happen and he'll move onto the next thing. He's the head of the world's biggest crime family.

Can't help feeling a  big line  has been crossed here with Venezuela. And as you say ,  nothing will happen. No rules, no  consequences . A rogue state  doing  what it wants.

The world is f**ked. Let's just enjoy it while we can , until  that mushroom cloud appears over the horizon.

[Milltown Row2]

It no surprise that the global powers have and continue to 'muscle' in on smaller nations to take their essential minerals. Even before oil was a thing countries were doing that.

China has been 'controlling' plenty of Africa, they ain't doing it for the craic, Russia been doing it for years, and looking to take Ukraine and it's not much to do with the 'nazi' they claim runs the county but it's natural resources and it's positioned sea ports.

They were in Afghanistan, it was the USSR purely to use the countries workers and minerals, it didn't work out but he wants it back

America who meddled in many countries (still do) are now looking to do the same as the other super powers are doing/done and are non apologetic about now, and blatantly going full on..

Expect Taiwan to submit to China soon..

Instead of countries engaging in a whole earth approach of helping each other it's preparing for earth destruction..

A good meteorite will solve it

[Truthsayer]

"America can project our will anywhere anytime"... US Secretary of War: Pete Hegseth.
Sounds more like: "You ain't seen nothing yet..."
Bets: Greenland next.

[seafoid]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/03/trump-is-about-to-make-his-biggest-gamble-yet
Yet, as the US and its allies learnt to their cost in both Iraq and Afghanistan, achieving regime change is a great deal easier than establishing a new administration in America's image.
Both the military campaigns to remove the Taliban in Afghanistan, and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, achieved their goals in a relatively short space of time and with minimal Western casualties. But subsequent efforts to establish pro-Western governments in Kabul and Baghdad proved immeasurably more difficult, plunging both countries into civil war and costing the US and its allies heavily in terms of blood and treasure.