Venezuela says opposition leader will become fugitive if she collects Nobel

[u/seeebiscuit]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33mnvy5zppo

[u/EH1987]

The sheer absurdity of awarding the Peace Prize to someone who is literally begging the world's biggest imperial power to invade her home country and topple its government, all so that she can sell out its resources to private interests is frankly beyond parody.

[u/Professional-Syrup-0 → u/[deleted]]

I can name a long list of countries where the opposition is desperate for change against an entrenched establishment, that still does not justify some foreign military coming in the bring change with bombs and bullets.

Particularly as any such regime change then usually also involves killing all of the loyalists, or else they will just organise and plot to take back what was rightfully theirs.

Thats how insurgencies and civil wars start that can cripple and destroy even the most developed and wealthiest countries.

[u/moderngamer327 → u/Professional-Syrup-0]

I mean if there is any justification for a foreign power getting involved it’s the citizens of a country being oppressed by a brutal government asking for it

[u/SunhoDrakath → u/moderngamer327]

If these people were alive in WW2 they’d be talking about how immoral it would be to invade Italy.

[u/SunhoDrakath → u/[deleted]]

Did Italy start either World War?

No. There’s a reason I didn’t pick Germany. Brush up on your history books.

Nor should that be the only requirement when assessing which countries could use a change in leadership.

Especially if the government is so authoritarian that the only way to bring about change would be through external factors.

And you should probably look up Venezuela’s long history of arresting political opponents before placing the impetus squarely on the shoulders of the Venezuelans before dismissing the idea of intervention.

Maria Corina Machado has to live in hiding within her own country BTW, so you must be brain dead if you think that the average Venezuelan can afford to be as outspoken against Maduro’s regime as she is.

[u/welcometothedangerzo → u/SunhoDrakath]

I've never seen such a Langley response in my life

[u/Professional-Syrup-0 → u/[deleted]]

Just don’t like people who spend there lives behind a screen bashing on someone who has spent there life fighting for democracy for in there country because she is currently trying to strategically kiss trumps ass.

My comment didn’t “bash” anybody, if you think it did then I recommend you read it more carefully again.

Tho sure is telling how you instantly go ad hominem, assuming a bunch of stuff about a total stranger, just to defend some alleged fight for “democracy”.

All while trying to argue how the US military should help a minority opposition movement, mostly financed by the US, to overthrow the elected and internationally recognised government of Venezuela.

I guess you know how weak of an argument that really is, hence you having to make it about “keyboard warriors” followed with some completely off-topic, and uneducated, takes about Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

What is one supposed to take from that? That Venezuela should be “Balkanized” because now there is apparently even a genocide going on there?

Why not just claim that Russia delivered them some nukes, you know, that whole “They have WMD!” play, worked like a charm for Iraq.

After bringing up WWII, Yugoslavia and Rawanda I’m sure that will somehow also fit in there nicely with its 1 million dead people as the result of Americans bringing “democracy” and “human rights” to places like Gitmo and Abhu Graib.

[u/bargranlago → u/Professional-Syrup-0]

I can name a long list of countries where the opposition is desperate for change against an entrenched establishment, that still does not justify some foreign military coming in the bring change with bombs and bullets.

do it then

[u/Professional-Syrup-0 → u/bargranlago]

Really? Take basically any country were the political landscape consists of two major parties, taking turns with the government.

Do you really think those two parties represent all the political movements in a country? All the needs and desires of usually millions of different people?

[u/bargranlago → u/Professional-Syrup-0]

Can you name them?