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Summary : America has done a lot of terrible things in South America.(agreed) They tried to depose a lot of legitimate leaders. (agreed) A couple of times the
by JamesBarney 8y ago
Summary : America has done a lot of terrible things in South America.(agreed)
They tried to depose a lot of legitimate leaders. (agreed)
A couple of times the nytimes argued it was the right thing to do when it probably wasn't. (I'll take their word for it.)
But none of the article argues that Maduro is a legitimate leader. And I don't know if I buy the argument that because we tried to depose a lot of legitimate leaders in the past with illegitimate ones we should now support an illegitimate leader instead of the legitimate one.
- dj_gitmo 8y agoThe question that matters is: Should the US intervene. Let's run down a list of the recent US interventions. Russian Election of 1996: The US helped rig Russia's election in 1996. Electing Yeltsin for a second term is what brought in Putin and basically killed Russian democracy. https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-meddling-in-1996-russian-elections-in-support-of-boris-yeltsin/5568288 https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-meddling-in-1996-russian-el... Iraq: 600,000 dead so far. Libya: It was supposed to turn into a thriving democracy but instead it's now a thriving slave market. https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/libya-migrant-auctions/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/libya-migrant-auctions... Yemen: Largest humanitarian crisis in the world. The list goes on and on. Things don't get better when the US intervenes. Let Venezuela decide it's own fate.