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gulliver

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60. Agree, but I doubt that would happen

Sun Nov 30, 2025, 12:13 PM

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Best I can tell from online, Maduro is highly unpopular and even a dictator. Would Venezuelans (who apparently voted him out) fight against the United States for him? I doubt it.

He might end up with a fate similar to Noriega's, spending time in a U.S. prison. Capturing Noriega was an invasion of Panama by name, but the armed forces of Panama basically just folded. And that was before drones.

I really would like to see the Venezuelan people freed and prosper, but it's secondary to our own national interests to me. If the Venezuelans were to freely choose by democratic means to be client states of our adversaries, endangering U.S. citizens, it wouldn't matter to me. We have a democracy too, and we're "us." They're "them."

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