We'll see. Trump initially said she was not strong enough to take over (yet). Allegedly, he is in negotiations with the sitting VP. U.S. forces will supposedly control things until a new government is established. I don't know if we will put in a puppet government, we will honor the previous election, or if there will be new elections.
I don't pay much attention to international elections, but wasn't the last Venezuelan election result questionable? Maduro is not just a "drug dealer" but the president of the country, so obviously he has a lot of support. (Of course I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to Venezuela.)
I am not necessarily in favor of the operation, but I am amazed how quickly and easily it seems to have been done. I think it was said that we did not have even one casualty. Heck, in training there is often accidental casualties. It shows to me how much our military has improved under Trump and Hegseth. Here is a n article form a military affairs website if anyone is interested.
I forgot to answer the election question. Yeah, it has long been held that the Venezuelan elections have been corrupt. Even the EU questions them. Hugo Chavez commissioned China to write election software that would allow the election returns to be "tweaked" in his favor. Maduro was elected using the same software, and, the really disturbing issue is that the same company who wrote the software for Venezuela supplies the voting machine software in many U.S. states. It is one of the reasons there are claims that the 2020 election was "rigged". The claim is that the results were rigged in 2016 but the officials miscalculated and they thought they were making it a "close" election. Obama and many others assumed that Clinton would win the election since it was "predetermined" and that is why Obama left so many judicial appointments open at the end of his term. He believed Hillary would fill them. He miscalculated and Trump had more votes than the officials counted on. They didn't make the same mistake in 2020 and more people voted in several states than were registered. They were also aided by the chaos of the Covid nonsense.
He was a bus driver and New York has a bartender in Congress. Hmmmm.
I agree, and wish we wouldn't do that. It's wrong for any one country to insist that every other country has the same type of government as we do. He wasn't elected, they say; well, I say that Joe Biden wasn't fairly elected in 2020. We have our own problems, and I wish we'd spend more time worrying about our own affairs than meddling in everyone else's.
Ironically. Maduro and Biden colluded to create our illegal immigrant crime problem. Now we have many of Maduro's agents inside the U.S.
Exactly ! And the same corrupt election machines were used for the 2020 election as were used for Maduro to supposedly win the election in Venezuela.
Trump looks exhausted; he must have been up all night.
There actually was a legitimate president for Venezuela. She is in exile at the moment, I think.
And Zelenski was a comedian. But Then again, Ronald Reagan was an acto.
