Am I the only one on this sub who is for the overthrowing of dictators.
swimmingupclose on
Out of the hundreds of posts and thousands of comments I’ve seen on Reddit today, I’ve not seen this perspective much. As a non interventionist, I’m against a prolonged nation building experiment in Venezuela but at least for one day, it does seem like millions of Venezuelans who fled the country feel like the knee is off their neck. I still expect this administration to fuck it up but fwiw.
> Venezuelan migrants around the world erupted in celebration on Saturday following the U.S.-led deposition of President Nicolas Maduro, whose government oversaw one of the world’s largest migration exoduses in recent history.
>Chants celebrating Maduro’s capture were heard on the streets of capital cities in Latin America and in Spain, where Venezuelans gathered to share their joy – and wonder what the future could hold.
>”We are free. We are all happy that the dictatorship has fallen and that we have a free country,” said Khaty Yanez, a Venezuelan woman in Santiago who has spent the last seven years in Chile.
>”My joy is too big,” her compatriot Jose Gregorio said. “After so many years, after so many struggles, after so much work, today is the day. Today is the day of freedom.”
PieSufficient9250 on
Opinion of the diaspora should not matter for our foreign policy. That is not “evidence based”
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Am I the only one on this sub who is for the overthrowing of dictators.
Out of the hundreds of posts and thousands of comments I’ve seen on Reddit today, I’ve not seen this perspective much. As a non interventionist, I’m against a prolonged nation building experiment in Venezuela but at least for one day, it does seem like millions of Venezuelans who fled the country feel like the knee is off their neck. I still expect this administration to fuck it up but fwiw.
> Venezuelan migrants around the world erupted in celebration on Saturday following the U.S.-led deposition of President Nicolas Maduro, whose government oversaw one of the world’s largest migration exoduses in recent history.
>Chants celebrating Maduro’s capture were heard on the streets of capital cities in Latin America and in Spain, where Venezuelans gathered to share their joy – and wonder what the future could hold.
>”We are free. We are all happy that the dictatorship has fallen and that we have a free country,” said Khaty Yanez, a Venezuelan woman in Santiago who has spent the last seven years in Chile.
>”My joy is too big,” her compatriot Jose Gregorio said. “After so many years, after so many struggles, after so much work, today is the day. Today is the day of freedom.”
Opinion of the diaspora should not matter for our foreign policy. That is not “evidence based”
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