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Okay, am I the only one who just sees this article as “U.S. government steals a plane, pats themselves on the back”?
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice took action to enforce U.S. sanctions – seizing an aircraft used by Maduro and his representatives.
He wasn’t on it. There’s no report of them finding anything useful on the plane. Are we supposed to assume he has no other planes? That this will have any significant impact on him whatsoever?
Whatever your moral stance is on Maduro, or stealing, or U.S. intervention, this feels absurd. Even if the dude were literally Hitler, this just doesn’t accomplish anything. The time spent inspecting and stealing this plane could’ve been better spent on so many other things.
As the conservatives would say, my taxes paid for this and I want them back.
I’ll cry about this as soon as I finish crying about all those Russian yachts that were seized
It’s not about feeling bad for Maduro or the Russians, it’s about wanting the U.S. to be more productive instead of whatever this is. Snatching up Russian yachts hasn’t done shit to stop hundreds of thousands of people being killed or wounded in Ukraine. Taking Maduro’s plane isn’t going to give freedom of press and election oversight to the Venezuelans.
It’s just grandstanding and trying to make people feel like the “right side is winning” when actually, everybody’s going to keep on losing because the power majority isn’t actually fixing anything.
What is your alternative to sanctions? Do you have a bit of armed conflict in mind or would you rather guys like Putin and Maduro do whatever the hell they want, like the orange goblin?
The US can choose who they can do business with.
Unil you can suggest an alternative, there is no reason to respond.
