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Up until yesterday most of us felt the same about "Going into Venezuela and kidnap the president of a sovereign nation" but here we are. Sure, it was also not o
by embedding-shape 10mo ago
Up until yesterday most of us felt the same about "Going into Venezuela and kidnap the president of a sovereign nation" but here we are. Sure, it was also not out of nowhere, but I don't think anyone thought Trump needed such an abrasive distraction from the internal conflicts in the nation.
> to a point where USA might find it's all alone in the world.
I think the US might be misleading itself if it doesn't realize that it already is. We still care for the people, but the government of the US has truly shown that it cannot be an ally today, and the rest of the world already realize this, seems the US is the last to understand it.
- riffraff 10mo agoI don't mean to downplay how terrible the current US administration is, but removing political leaders in Latin America has been a USA tradition and nobody really considers it odd. The US invading an allied country hasn't happened often.
- pojzon 10mo agoUS has pulled out soldiers from EU grounds. EU restarted domestic production of millitary equipment. Germany is making military draft mandatory again. Noone believes US will help like they did before (we know it was a two way deal but still..) The moment US left EU to Russia they are now all alone. NATO is just a name now.
- tim333 10mo agoThere are still ~80000 US troops in Europe. NATO is blemished but still there.
- Bridged7756 10mo agoTruly this attack on foreign soil is something without precedents for the USA. What's next, destabilize entire regions? Cause wars? Fund terrorists? Military occupation? No matter what, let's not forget Ukraine is being attacked by evil Russia.
- dataflow 10mo ago> Truly this attack on foreign soil is something without precedents for the USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...
- christophilus 10mo ago> Without precedent Other than probably hundreds of similar scenarios over the past 250 years or so, sure.
- croes 10mo agoYou missed parent’s sarcasm
- christophilus 10mo agoOh. Yep. I’m just so used to HN seriously thinking Trump is some new kind of evil unleashed on the world— as opposed to just more of the same thing, wrapped up in a tackier and cruder wrapper— that I only read the first sentence and replied. That’s me being a bad HN denizen for the day.
- rascul 10mo ago> Truly this attack on foreign soil is something without precedents for the USA. What's next, destabilize entire regions? Cause wars? Fund terrorists? Military occupation? All those things have lots of precedent for the USA.