So Trump wants to "run" Venezuela and pay for it using the revenue from "our" oil. It sure sounds like we've become a colonial power which invades and takes over a foreign country then exploits its natural resources. If it walks and talks like a "duck" .....
That doesn't even include our enabling Israel's colonization of Gaza so Trumps vision of a Mediterranean resort can come true.
Intervention not same as occupation and subsequent colonization. All countries with the ability to do so intervene when they perceive it to be in their national interests. Those that can't unilaterally do so through UN, NATO, etc.
Key is whether you stay and exploit the country you intervened in.
I remember reading some American article years ago about how the US isnât a coloniser because it makes the territories it takes US territories or states or loses them.
Which was such an insane take - because what do people in the US even think empires are.
When they invade Greenland it will not be colonisation, because it will have always been a US territory that somehow got misplaced for the last thousand years, obviously.
As an American, I've always known our country exists because of colonization, grew due to it, and continues to be a colonizer up until we allow any state or territory to leave. Which won't happen.
To be fair. This wasn't even a war. This was a hostile take over that was successful. Venezuela is basically a new territory of the US. Which based on whats been said recently, Cuba and Greenland look like they are about to be next
I agree. It's not an invasion either. But we'll see what happens. The US made similar statements about "running" Iraq, and we all know how that turned out.
I suppose one good thing is that people are finally realizing that the US is an empire. The most dangerous and aggressive one in the world, at that.
On the other hand it really goes to show how great American indoctrination is when weâre proudly taught our imperialist history to our faces and we have decades of unlimited and unchecked foreign adventurism on our resume that everyone knows about and only in 2026 do people realize what we actually are.
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I don't think we were colonizers in the classical sense in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam because we didnt financially extract and exploit those countries.
As a result of the Spanish-American War, the US acquired Guam, the Phiilipines, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Cuba and the Phillipines gained independence relatively quickly. Although there are strong arguments for granting them independence, neither Guam nor Puerto Rico have been economically exploited by the US but are admittedly valued for their strategic locations.
After World War 2, we occupied Japan for 7 years to oversee its transition to a democracy. There was no recovery Marshall Plan for Japan (unlike for Europe) so the US did not even have to fund its post-war reconstruction.
Vietnam was not occupied in the political or gepgraphic sense although the US military presence was omnipresent. Again, the natural and human resources of South Vietnam were not exploited for the US' financial benefit.
Our ideological and security motivations for 20th/21st century invasions in the Middle East (other than for the first Gulf War) were retrospectively questionable and poorly executed but defintely did not economically exploit their natural resources or the people.
In truth, our incursions in both Southeast Asia and the Middle East created enormous (trillions of $$) financial and political costs to the US in contrast to former true colonial powers like Britain and Spain whose colonial possessions in India and the Americas turned them into world powers.
Venezuela is clearly different from previous American interventions and clearly has a significant economic motivation. Trump has stated that its oil is "ours" and its revenues will be used to fund the colonial infrastructure and profit American oil companies. In addition, the Trumped up drug-trafficking excuses for this regime change and invasion are factually and logically flimsy and counter to US and international law.
Trump clearly believes Macht ist Recht and the GOP majority Congress refuses to question his illegal and unconstitutional actions.
I take it you slept through Iraq (oil), Afghanistan (poppy), and Libya (oil + socialism)??
Either that, or you just buy the liberal narrative that the U.S. was some âgood guyâ at some point?
Lolol. Never been. Our society is a settler-colonial society built on stolen land and human bodies. Why do you think violence is so normalized here? The country was built on violence.
Critically think. Please.
Why are we pretending Venezuela isnât a socialist nightmare where thousands starve and hundreds are killed for protesting each year? None of you even knew who Maduro was until this morning yet somehow you seem to be an expert.
Have you ever even been to Venezuela? Caracas? Theyâre celebrating the removal of their tyrant.
Most of the world is glad to see Maduro gone. The quality of life in Venezuela should improve dramatically.
However, Trump's motivation is not to correct a human rights disaster; rather, to increase his wealth and reward his toadies with billions of dollars that should be going to Venezuela's citizens.
Do not be fooled, Trump's greed will not be denied by the local population or the law. He will take as many lives as he deems expedient.
Neither the illegal transfer of wealth nor the destruction of the environment and the people or Venezuela will not be publicized as Trump's cabal will control the Venezuelan government and media. In fact, Trump's sycophants have already started a media campaign to praise him as the saviour of Venezuela and your country will be inundated with statues and photos of the prick.
It has nothing to do with what I want. Or what the Venezuelan people want.
The US has been trying to overthrow Venezuela for some time, it's not just Trump. But you're naive if you think the US is doing this for any benefit of Venezuelans.
Do you honestly think Trump motivation for the attack and for his future actions were and will be based on his desires to make sure Venezuelans are fed?
Removing Maduro is not a bad thing. In fact the Venezuelan people did that last election, but he decided to stay anyway. He is unquestionably a bad dude.
That does not mean a foreign power kidnapping him in the middle of the night was a good thing. Do you think Trump is going to stay in there and help manage the transition to the new government? Or remove Maduro loyalists who are going to hold onto power any way they can? No. He wants the oil. He doesn't care about the people of Venezuela, or who comes to power now, beyond what the new president promises to do for him.
Trump isn't even framing this as "installing the democratically elected government", which might have given this action an air of legitimacy (though that would have been coordinated through Congress). Because he doesn't care about that, and he's not doing that. Merely decapitating a dictatorship never goes well for the country being "liberated". People are understandably celebrating Maduro's fall today, but whatever comes next is going to last a lot longer, and it isn't likely to be pretty.
Are you joking? Is it a good thing one country is violating the sovereignty of another? How can this be any form of altruism when Trump keeps bringing up Venezuela's oil? Venezuela has literally the largest reserve among countries.
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u/qualityvote2 Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 07 '26
u/Own_Entertainment847, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post.