My one “really!” Thing about this is that the country wasn’t invaded, the leader doesn’t seem to have been used as an excuse for a forever war and a trillion dollar process of rebuilding with a staggering decade long racket for govt contractors, all to leave them no better off than they started.
At least none of that appears to be happening. Because they just went in without any collateral damage, nabbed Maduro, and peaced out. That’s actually so massively different from any engagement the US has been involved in for the past century that I’m actually a tiny bit hopeful that this won’t be the usually disaster that a US military campaign nearly always is.
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Agreed. Sprinkling cocaine on an oil tanker to steal oil is better than starting a 20 year oil war.
The infrastructure and oil refineries were already destroyed. Trump just skipped the whole formal war part and went straight to "rebuilding"... and oil contracts.


Dozens of dead civilian and military personnel (and still counting) is "any collateral damage"? Of course only US lives count, right?
The whole "we're running Venezuela now" narrative makes me think we are basically replacing a BRICS puppet with a NATO puppet.
The operation itself was incredibly successful and impressive from a military perspective, but I don't see much difference beyond that.