Comment by testbjjl

Gotta think about economy and those sweet sweet deals bringing tons of money and power to orange clan err economy and jobs! Its all fault of mexicans after all! Anyway I am sure there can be a new resort/casino or two somewhere there

We are a net exporter of oil and have been for nearly two decades. We can keep our monster trucks rolling just fine.

He seems to imply that he is an US citizen and last time I checked the americans voted for Trump.

Interestingly in the Netherlands there is a custom that the majority of parliament has to agree to any military missions.

In America one guy can start wars.

48.34% shouldn’t be confused with majority.

> I’ve never liked or voted for him, but his desire to end wars is sincere

I mean, evidently not.

And 88 million people signaled they were fine with either candidate, by not voting. 165 million people out of 264 millions eligible voters supported this.

We don’t elect Presidents based on getting a majority of votes of all US citizens, even if they can’t vote.

Do you know why?

Nope. Sorry. From outside the US, there is just the US. We dont understand your "us vs them" tribalism nor the political divide. Every US citizen at this point is responsible for what's going on. Regardless of who you voted for. All of this is due to decades of complacency by the citizenry, it's not some sudden surprising coup.

I'm not saying the rest of the world is in the clear though. I think many countries are headed in a similar direction. Hopefully this is the wakeup call we all need to step up and arrest this slide into authoritarianism that's happening everywhere.

~60% of the 8M people that fled Venezuela are incline to support a military intervention, that number goes down to 40% estimated for those still inside, so about more than half the country want external action to get out of the dictatorship. That percentage is for external action, the percentage that voted against the dictator in the stolen election last year was calculated at 76%; so no, is definitely not just the MAGA fan base that want to see something happen.

You’d be surprised. Last month on a visit to the U.S., 8/10 Uber drivers I had were Venezuelan. I’m a fluent Spanish speaker so I engaged in this very topic. The vast majority of them wanted Maduro out, and the fastest way to that is through U.S. intervention. They were not opposed to this.

María Corina Machado believes this. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025. Attacking Venezuela would still be illegal, but it would achieve her aims.

We really need a decent channel to petition other countries, as the US public.

Maybe we could write on a legal pad and hold it up in the rear window as we pass them on the highway.

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