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Everything he listed applies to every US president. It’s pretty normal presidents who win the election to have the house and senate. The midterms address this and presidents tend to have to overcome the loss of one or both houses. Applying @Brighton Sky Blue’s logic, Starmer and Macron are also...

This is getting odd now. Set Trump aside for a moment, why can’t you just call Maduro a dictator? He literally lost an election he tried to rig by banning opposition parties and hasn’t left office for 7 years. He is your worst fears about Trump personified. To address the points: Firstly...

No, follow the thread. Trump won two elections, he’s serving a second term… anyone seriously calling him an actual dictator is being ludicrous. It’s baffling that @Brighton Sky Blue has no qualms calling Trump a dictator and a ‘fascist’ previously but can’t call Maduro a dictator. You can’t...

Now will you call Maduro a dictator in name and in practice?

Did he hold onto the post past the term date? No. Did he contest the next elections fairly? Yes. Your point doesn't actually capture is that the US system (decouple from the officeholder) worked exactly as intended. That’s the bottom line and the comparison to actual dictators is bemusing.

You never know with these deified leaders in exile. They can become just as bad as the regimes they replace. Mugabe was once a ‘sir’ and ‘freedom fighter’, Aung San Suu Kyi is a Nobel peace prize winner, now on trial for genocide… After all, Maduro himself was once a legitimately elected...

That’s just a ridiculous thing say and a complete falsehood. Trump won in 2016 and 2024 fairly. Maduro did not. Condemn Trump for Jan 6th, it’s fair game. It really isn’t in the same league as the likes of Putin, Maduro or the mullahs in Iran.

If it is a ‘negotiated exit’ then perhaps everyone clutching their pearls should maybe pause on that. Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, was on Fox News talking about trusting ‘Trump’s Plan’ for Venezuela which which suggests the opposition has been briefed and there’s a...

Will you ever answer the question of whether or not Maduro won the election in 2018 legitimately or not? You dodge the question by saying ‘Putin feels that way about Zelensky’, when Putin did try to take out Zelensky as the Russia army tried to march on Kyiv and now Netanyahu.

No, it’s invoking WW2 to justify Trump’s actions. It is, however, referenced as Nazism was rightfully identified as a cancer that needed to be defeated. It became more than the territorial disputes. Notwithstanding, if there were viable plans to take out Putin, Xi, Kim Jong-Un that would not...

There’s one post that @SBT quoted made me laugh because it brought me back to some exams I was studying for. A proper wave of nostalgia! At my age back then, if you weren’t a socialist you really didn’t have a heart.

You’re projecting that onto me. I was referencing myself when talking about student union politics. As previously mentioned, in 2013 I hadn’t even started uni.

It’s not condescension, it’s a recognition that even if we disagree, I have a vague understanding of the guiding principles of your (and once my own) viewpoints. I don’t get why you took that as hostile to be honest. It referenced he won an election. A lot changed from 2013 to 2018 which is...

I’ve never hidden the fact that I was socialist at school and university. Which is why I understand where a lot of you are coming from. Nice try. There was no pro-Maduro stuff. All the quoted posts pre-date Maduro. These posts in 2013 were done before I even went to University… I’ll happily...

That’s a blast from the past when I was a young and naive socialist. Hugo Chavez, for his faults, did actually have legitimacy. Maduro did for his term because he was a continuation of Chavez. Ironically, there was a lot of confused mental gymnastics going on to have those views.

Might has always been right. International Law is a construct designed to impose Western values globally. Did the USSR, China, Latin America, the Middle East or even Africa subscribe to ‘international law’ at the time? Of course not. It’s an irony that you and others haven’t actually grasped this.

None of those countries were democracies. Venezuela was 10 years ago and has a sophisticated opposition ready to take over. That’s a pretty fundamental difference. After all, there’s US didn’t need to put boots on the ground to achieve their goals.

Dude, read my posts. Of course there’s a lot of geopolitics going on here. @Captain Dart shared a noteworthy Twitter thread. I’ll answer it. Maduro is a ‘socialist’ and most staunchest of criticism Trump’s intervention are mostly left wing. It’s convenient to frame the Trump administrations as...

Just answer the questions, do you think Maduro won the election fairly in 2018? If not, if democracy returns to Venezuela would this intervention be a good thing? International law is a post-WW2 construct and most nations will bend/break the rules if it’s convenient to do so.

I’ve already said it’s geopolitical. In this instance, authoritarian regimes side with Russia, China, Iran, NK and so on. Democratic ones side with the USA, Australia, UK, EU and so on. Therefore, deposing an authoritarian regime with (hopefully) a democratic one serves US (and the West’s)...