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Russian Wagner mercenaries spotted amid Venezuela election protests
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Here's a question. Have you actually spoken to anyone of Venezuelan heritage about the situation there? Because someone I worked closely with at my old job had told us about what was going on, and he loathed Maduro and said Guaido was the rightful president.
Machado can have uncomfortable ties to Republicans and Netanyahu, and Maduro can still be an unrightful president. This isn't a binary. It's rarely a binary, in fact. The USSR was pretty bad. The US is pretty bad. When the two had competing operations during the Cold War, was one bad and one good? Or were they both bad?
The opposite of bad isn't always good. Sometimes it can also be bad -- even a greater evil.
Argument from Anecdote, irrelevant.
Yes, both sides can be bad. But one is a recognized government, while the other is treasonous opposition to that government with foreign interference. If a government is not allowed to have sovereign independence internationally, then it destabilizes global relations and threatens world peace. If it’s wrong when Russia or China does it, then it’s wrong when America does it.
Sanctioning Venezuela and destabilizing the government punishes the people needlessly. The people suffering migrate and strain resources in other countries. All so a few billionaires can profit from the pillaging of these regions.
You literally gave three anecdotes with your "weirdness" posts.