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Invasion of Venezuela - Megathread (use for all Venezuela-related news until further notice) (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

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Please include sources for any claims; baseless speculation is counterproductive. Remember that this is not a win for the US, just another outburst of a dying empire.

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[–] i_c_b_m@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Stealing land from Mexico is an Amerikkkan tradition. But then what? The Fourth Reich is going to make their own shoes or pick their own lettuce? They could do that in any of the other land they stole from Mexico, like Texas. The formula is cheap labour inside other people's borders. The whole point of those factories being there is they're explicitly not in the US, and it would defeat the whole point to seize the land they're on. So what then? They're going to take the land AND the people? Is the presumption they will turn Mexico into a slave colony? If so, capitulation is defeat and Mexico should buy nukes and prepare for war right now.

These people live in a fantasy world to think such threats would produce anything other than their own collapse.

[–] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This sober reflection on how abysmally stupid it would be to invade Mexico should be obvious. However, here just north of the border in California, even if people aren't in favor of any military action against Mexico (at least) they will still uncritically parrot the idea that the US is capable of it. The idea of war being anything beyond causing death and destruction is utterly foreign to Americans. Not to mention they don't seem to recognize that starting a war on your border, which would likely turn into a Guerilla struggle, would very quickly spill into their own borders.

The US population has no idea about the consequences of war when its on or next to your land. I'm scared to know if the US ruling class has become as ignorant as the sheep they've led.