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Comment by GardenLetter27

4 days ago

Let freedom ring. Every Venezuelan I know is happy for the regime to fall.

Let's hope Iran, Cuba, North Korea and Russia follow soon.

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lm28469  4 days ago

Yes because it went so well for all the other countries the US meddld with lol

  • antonymoose  4 days ago

    We dropped a lot of ordnance on Germany and Japan and they seem to be doing alright.

    I suppose South Korea is doing fine as well, so let’s just hope Chinese troops do not flow over their land border with Venezuela.

    If we need a more recent and perhaps more relevant comparison point, Operation Just Cause had a successful outcome.

    I know it’s trendy and important to mock Iraq and Vietnam but it’s not all a failures.

int_19h  3 days ago

I can't speak for other countries, but the regime in Russia has popular support.

And if "every Venezuelan you know" is someone who immigrated because of Chavez and/or Maduro, then you have an extremely biased sample to gauge the overall mood of their populace.

  • BoneShard  3 days ago

    >>> but the regime in Russia has popular support.

    Yeah, because in Russia if you don't support the regime then straight to jail.

    • int_19h  3 days ago

      That's not quite true even today (it all depends on how loud your non-support is), and was even less true prior to the war. The majority support Putin not because the alternative is prison but because they genuinely believe that he's a good leader. And they're wrong, but that's a different story.

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  • andy12_  2 days ago

    > then you have an extremely biased sample to gauge the overall mood of their populace.

    I think that if a good chunk of the people that don't agree with their government are basically forced to emigrate you don't get to turn around and say "See, everyone that remains loves the government!"

troupo  4 days ago

There's a difference between happy for the regime to fall" and "a superior military invades and starts a war"

jonway  4 days ago

That’s interesting who are they? The few venezuelas I know hate it too, so like is this a gulf war 1 or Iraq war 2?

This usually (never) goes well for the USA. (Source: pick a regime change war.)

nsingh2  3 days ago

> Let freedom ring

What happens if the Venezuelan people decide they want their oil profits to stay in Venezuela rather than flowing into oil company coffers? Will they have the "freedom" to choose that?

Don't get me wrong, Maduro being toppled is a positive in isolation, but it's still wait-and-see regarding what he gets replaced with.

"We’re going to have our very large US oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country and we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so" [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/03/trump-venezu...

braiamp  3 days ago

If you are talking about those that left the country... yeah, obviously they are happy. They literally left and got a better life. That's called immigration. That doesn't mean that it will be fine for those that stayed.

petre  3 days ago

There are still Maduro-linked armed rebel groups like the ELN in Venezuela that aren't that keen on the US version of freedom.