[kristopolous]

I'm in LA.

The Persian expats here want us to Bomb Iran. The Vietnam expats want us to go back Into Vietnam. The Cubans want us to go take over Cuba again.

People who flee country X to the global hegemon seem to be in support of invading country X.

It's a selection bias. Kinda like saying everyone who walked out on their job at company X doesn't think much of company X.

I mean heck, you can probably find Canadians who fled for one reason or another and want America to invade Canada.

I really don't put any credence into that perspective and have been trying to explain this to my Venezuelan friends that this is simply an oil grab.

They don't get it.

[DanielVZ]

The Venezuelan diaspora is of approximately 8 million people. The current Venezuelan population is around 28 million. That’s a huge percentage of the population you a disregarding. And note that most still have relatives in their country of origin and they are also supportive of US intervention. At the end the oil is the least of their concerns. It’s easy to disregard them from a moral and legal point of view, but the suffering of this whole continent because of that dictator is very real.

[kristopolous]

The administration that has been saber rattling about "Tren de Aragua" and has had dozens of deportation flights of venezuelan refugees...

let me get this clear: you think this administration is somehow simultaneously raiding and deporting people to a place they are so empathetic to the refugee and asylum claim of that they are bombing it for humanity while also rejecting the asylum claims?

The administration that is pardoning major drug traffickers but bombs boats on a theory of importing a drug that they do not make. Then they destroy all the evidence that could support their claim?

This has nothing to do with the fact that this country has more proven oil than Saudi Arabia? Or their chosen successor María Corina Machado wants to privatize oil on day 1, that's just you know, random noise?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oi...

Iran is oil. Somalia is oil. Venezuela is oil. That bizarre Christmas strike in Nigeria a few days ago? oil.

When Trump said in Nov that killing Khashoggi wasn't a problem to MBS, his weird idea about making Canada the 51st state...

That Greenland thing? About reversing this ... https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/greenlan...

You can solve all Trump foreign policy mysteries with one weird trick.

People like to say "no, this is all very nuanced". I mean come on... Is Trump quoting Frantz Fanon and Hedley Bull? I mean what planet do you live on. This is a man with a golden toilet that eats at mcdonalds.

He's a crude man.

[CompoundEyes]

The rare earth minerals as well https://venezuelanalysis.com/infographics/subsoil-bonanza-ve...

[pknerd]

> The Persian expats here want us to Bomb Iran. The Vietnam expats want us to go back Into Vietnam. The Cubans want us to go take over Cuba again.

Because the world sees your government as a bully.

[kristopolous]

It is. Members of the imperial core will always find a way to rationalize their imperial brutality.

I mean I'd like to imagine that expats see through it but actually maybe they are less likely since they took great sacrifice to come to the US while I am merely an american because of the geography of my birth.