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Donald Trump says US is 'going to run' Venezuela after overnight strikes

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This is kind of the nightmare announcement, full steam ahead to the nation building quagmire

You know, if I was in Taiwan, I would be very worried right now.

Completely different matter. Military concerns aside, the main problem for China there is they know they're absolutely going get killed diplomatically and economically in the aftermath. The leadership knows well what would happen or else they would've done it long ago.

That is the reasoning that is most at risk here. China's tactical ability to succeed in Taiwan is not really related to America's ability to succeed in Venezuela.

However, assuming the US gets away with this diplomatically, this does set a real precedent that countries can get away with this diplomatically; which will make it harder to organize diplomatic and economic responses to China.

I disagree. This doesn't really change anything. It's not like China needed justification to invade Taiwan, they already do, nor it is not like China or Russia follows the rules based order, see South China Sea or Ukraine. From their perspective, the rules based order was created by the US to attack them, and the West hypocritically apply the rules where they see fit.

Ultimately, the international rules based order was mostly created to protect smaller and weaker powers that be and to constrain the strong. Since nobody can enforce international law, the strong do what they like anyway.

Taiwan is definitely not Venezuela in the larger scheme of things.

Iraq feelings

Uh huh. And does Venezuela agree with that?

If not: Is Trump really willing to make it happen? Is Congress willing to let him? And at what body count? (Even if you're only counting American bodies, it won't be zero...)

> And does Venezuela agree with that?

You missed the referendum? Hm. So did I.

This is a result of legitimate elections, right? /s

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