• refolde [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, that’s what I want to believe. It makes sense, but I keep getting sucker-punched by life so much I can’t put faith into anything that “sounds” reasonable anymore agony-limitless

    Edit: Like “here are all the points in Venezuela’s favor” and then the invasion begins and suddenly all of that just evaporates overnight after everything.

    • hotcouchguy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      I don’t see how the US has any viable options other than bombings. Anything else has such high risks I doubt they’d attempt it. Bombing is plenty bad enough obviously, but seems unlikely to achieve their goals.

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      I get that. Since Syria fell, it’s hard to have hope in anyone standing against the US and it’s allies. And there are more US puppets in South America than there are allies of Venezuela and Colombia.

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      others have already chimed in but I just want to say that Operation Timber Sycamore was a 13 year project