• Krono@lemmy.today
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    12 days ago

    You’re really begging for downvotes with this comment, but I’m curious: how do you see this situation playing out? Do you think a couple steps ahead, or just react?

    My guess is that is going to go like this:

    1. Trump admin tries to install Machado as US puppet government in Venezuela.
    2. Mass popular uprising from the Venezuelan people, significant violence, attempts at deposing or assassinating Machado.
    3. US boots on the ground to prop up Machado regime. -or-
    4. US abandons Venezuela project, leaving devastation and chaos behind.
    5. Inevitable blowback, Americans killed.
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      12 days ago
      1. Mass popular uprising from the Venezuelan people, significant violence, attempts at deposing or assassinating Machado.

      This won’t happen. Venezuelans were incredibly tired of Maduro’s regime. I know majority of people in US are enraged by this, because is an act of aggression and so on, but majority of people in Venezuela are not, because this is finally the end of Maduro and possibly Chavism.

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      12 days ago

      You’re really begging for downvotes with this comment

      Fortunately I don’t give a fuck about downvotes. I don’t even see them so they might as well not exist.

      how do you see this situation playing out?

      Seems to me that Venezuela hasn’t reacted in any way to this. So unless that changes, it seems to me that they’re gonna just take whatever USA is going to do them.

      The same would have happened to Ukraine if Russia had succeeded in what they tried to do there.

      Trump admin tries to install Machado as US puppet government in Venezuela.

      Why Machado? Genuine question here, I didn’t realize she was a serious option for this. I would think that the person who actually won the elections in 2024, Edmundo Gonzalez, would be the more realistic option.

      I think it’s gonna be either

      1. Venezuela finally gets rid of communism for good and is going to prosper.

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      1. Venezuela finally gets rid of communism, but it’s replaced with thieving oligarchies and they are not going to prosper.

      If we look at history, 6 happened to most eastern bloc countries and China, 7 happened to some eastern bloc countries and Russia itself. I don’t know enough about Venezuela’s internal politics to tell which is more likely there.