Meh, it's why the French have always sucked and got their asses kicked.

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That light bulb head is one of the biggest morons I've ever come across.

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I find her incandescent!

**** this skank. Who does she think she is ? We must leave NATO and disolve the UN

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The questions about "was this a war?" are legitimate,

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By no definition was this a war.

Those "questions" are from people that don't know what they are talking about, isolationists and/or the TDS crowd.

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We bombed the crap out of another country, landed military personnel on its soil, and then hog tied and flew off with its leader. It doesn't make one a TDS addled moron to wonder whether this is an act of war that should require congressional approval.

I don't think this will escalate, and there's not a single Venezuelan sad to see him go, but it's a pretty impactful action.

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Im Gipper said:

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The questions about "was this a war?" are legitimate,

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By no definition was this a war.

Those "questions" are from people that don't know what they are talking about, isolationists and/or the TDS crowd.

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We bombed the crap out of another country, landed military personnel on its soil, and then hog tied and flew off with its leader. It doesn't make one a TDS addled moron to wonder whether this is an act of war that should require congressional approval.

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Well let's see. Have we done that in Panama ? Yup. How about with Osama Bin Laden? Yup.

Swing and a miss!
Hey batter batter!

techno-ag said:

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Deputy Travis Junior said:

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Im Gipper said:

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The questions about "was this a war?" are legitimate,

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By no definition was this a war.

Those "questions" are from people that don't know what they are talking about, isolationists and/or the TDS crowd.

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We bombed the crap out of another country, landed military personnel on its soil, and then hog tied and flew off with its leader. It doesn't make one a TDS addled moron to wonder whether this is an act of war that should require congressional approval.

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Well let's see. Have we done that in Panama ? Yup. How about with Osama Bin Laden? Yup.

Swing and a miss!
Hey batter batter!

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I guess we could have gone in and neutered the guy's security forces and simply left him....

But then he'd be dead at the hands of his own people.

Are you really analogizing bin laden and the head of a country? Jeez man, work on your analytical skills.

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Deputy Travis Junior said:

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Im Gipper said:

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The questions about "was this a war?" are legitimate,

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By no definition was this a war.

Those "questions" are from people that don't know what they are talking about, isolationists and/or the TDS crowd.

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We bombed the crap out of another country, landed military personnel on its soil, and then hog tied and flew off with its leader. It doesn't make one a TDS addled moron to wonder whether this is an act of war that should require congressional approval.

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Well let's see. Have we done that in Panama ? Yup. How about with Osama Bin Laden? Yup.

Swing and a miss!
Hey batter batter!

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Obl wasn't a head of state and we didn't say we were taking over Pakistan. Swing and a miss.

The law states it doesnt.

Presidents can act, then notify congress, stay for 60 days and get out by 90.

The last 8 to 10 presidents have absolutely abused the law, but congress hasn't done **** to stop them.

Trump acted, has informed congress, and if he wants to co tinie military operations has 60 days to convince congress to allow him keep going. But I suspect the military side of this conflict will not last that long

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techno-ag said:

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Deputy Travis Junior said:

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Im Gipper said:

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The questions about "was this a war?" are legitimate,

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By no definition was this a war.

Those "questions" are from people that don't know what they are talking about, isolationists and/or the TDS crowd.

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We bombed the crap out of another country, landed military personnel on its soil, and then hog tied and flew off with its leader. It doesn't make one a TDS addled moron to wonder whether this is an act of war that should require congressional approval.

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Well let's see. Have we done that in Panama ? Yup. How about with Osama Bin Laden? Yup.

Swing and a miss!
Hey batter batter!

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Obl wasn't a head of state and we didn't say we were taking over Pakistan. Swing and a miss.

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Meh, it's why the French have always sucked and got their asses kicked.

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Even the least French, and most conservative of French politicians, is still French after all.

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Are you really analogizing bin laden and the head of a country? Jeez man, work on your analytical skills.

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I sure am. Delta Force took him out in a fortified compound too. Sorry you missed that little pertinent detail.

honestly the most baffling part of the venezuela saga is that the actual reason we did it (removing an ally of russia/iran/china from the americas) is both the most obvious and palatable reason, and yet the one the administration least wanted to admit.

instead we got months of "idk… drugs? vengeance for exxon?"

Remind me, didn't the ****ING hypocrite Europeans effectively displace and kill Muammar Gaddafi not 15 years ago. ? Get ****ed, Euros. Mind your business in Europe with Ukraine.

I urge my fellow Democrats, especially those in the House and Senate who still give a damn about national security, to wake up. Stop attacking Trump just because he’s Trump or a Republican. Capturing Maduro and hauling him here like a criminal is American strength. Scaring the… https://t.co/l6YSbdBAUG

— A. Ari Aramesh (@AriAramesh) January 3, 2026

The US has been involved with roughly 30 regime changes since world war 2.

Starmer, surprisingly, choosing the intelligent response.

The UK has long supported a transition of power in Venezuela. We regarded Maduro as an illegitimate President and we shed no tears about the end of his regime.

I reiterated my support for international law this morning. The UK government will discuss the evolving situation with…

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) January 3, 2026

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I urge my fellow Democrats, especially those in the House and Senate who still give a damn about national security, to wake up. Stop attacking Trump just because he’s Trump or a Republican. Capturing Maduro and hauling him here like a criminal is American strength. Scaring the… https://t.co/l6YSbdBAUG

— A. Ari Aramesh (@AriAramesh) January 3, 2026

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At this point nobody without blue hair or a house full of cats believes the Vindmans are courageously battling Trump.

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Starmer, surprisingly, choosing the intelligent response.

The UK has long supported a transition of power in Venezuela. We regarded Maduro as an illegitimate President and we shed no tears about the end of his regime.

I reiterated my support for international law this morning. The UK government will discuss the evolving situation with…

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) January 3, 2026

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Who cares, f*****t? No one. You are a worthless pile of *****

Ho seguito gli sviluppi in Venezuela fin dalle primissime evoluzioni.

L’Italia, assieme ai principali partner internazionali, non ha mai riconosciuto la auto-proclamata vittoria elettorale di Maduro, condannando gli atti di repressione del regime e ha sempre sostenuto…

— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) January 3, 2026

"I have followed the developments in Venezuela since the very first evolutions.

Italy, together with the main international partners, has never recognized Maduro's self-proclaimed electoral victory, condemning the regime's acts of repression and has always supported the Venezuelan people's aspiration to a democratic transition.

Consistent with Italy's historic position, the Government believes that external military action is not the path to take to put an end to totalitarian regimes, but at the same time considers legitimate an intervention of a defensive nature against hybrid attacks on its own security, as in the case of state entities that fuel and favor narcotrafficking.

We continue to follow with particular attention the situation of the Italian community in Venezuela, whose security constitutes the Government's absolute priority."

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The questions about "was this a war?" are legitimate

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What war? I don't see a war.

Did someone declare war on the country of Venezuela?

I must have missed that...

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Oh stop it. The US hasn't declared war since WWII, it's not a requirement to launch a war anymore

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Well then I guess that answers your question. Duh.

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So it's your argument that the US hasn't declared not been in a war since the 1940's simply because we never declared it?

Ever heard of Korea? Vietnam? Iraq? Afghanistan?

You do realize just because you don't yell out that you declare bankruptcy that doesn't mean you aren't still broke

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My wife is Venezuelan. She made the very difficult decision to sell what she could, leave her business she owned behind and leave for the US during the 2nd wave of the economic crisis years ago. Other than her mom being able to travel here, she left knowing she had no idea of if/when she'd ever be able to return to see her home and family again.

Hard for me to understand the emotions she and her family and friends are experiencing right now. In fact, as an American it's impossible to understand.

It has been crying, screaming, dancing, and one video call after another with friends and family for hours at our house.

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I realized how much it meant to Venezuelans when I would see many of them wearing hardcore anti Maduro gear during the last "election" at my gym (lots of Venezuelans there). Both men and women flaunting the gear.

Democrats are idiots for trying to push back on this. The time to protest this type of action was before. Now that the military operation has occurred with little (likely no) loss of U.S. lives, they need to move on and take their medicine. Trump took his shot and it worked. Had a lot of US lives been lost or if this was a disaster like Benghazi then they'd have plenty of ammo. Right now they just have the idealist principle of the matter as to whether a U.S. president can unilaterally do what Trump did, which nearly no voter gives a crap about when you are de facto defending a scumbag like Maduro.

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Remember the last time we invaded a country because of its evil leader and attempted to take control of the region and its oil? How well did that end up for us?

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Poorly. That was also a fourth world Islamic state on the other side of the world.

This is a second world Christian nation in our backyard that remembers what it is like to live in a relatively free country.

Apples and oranges.

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Distance is further and the people read a different book? So what. If they were a 4th world country how come we are not in control over there?

How about I use a more relevant example. Cuba, a close communist nation with a dictator. How well did that go? Ecuador, Chile, and Guatemala?

The point is that military interventions overseas are a pointless endeavor. The do not serve you as an American citizen. Your tax dollars will be spent on nothing, corporations will benefit, and our servicemen will unnecessarily be put in harms way.

One Cuban's reaction

This woman woke her Cuban husband up at 5 AM to tell him that Maduro has been captured by the United States.

At first, he doesn’t believe her.

His reaction afterward is amazing!

These people who have lived for years under socialist regime’s understand the gravity of what has… pic.twitter.com/0J4CqhGnES

— AmericanPapaBear™ (@AmericaPapaBear) January 3, 2026