[embedding-shape]

Up until yesterday most of us felt the same about "Going into Venezuela and kidnap the president of a sovereign nation" but here we are. Sure, it was also not out of nowhere, but I don't think anyone thought Trump needed such an abrasive distraction from the internal conflicts in the nation.

> to a point where USA might find it's all alone in the world.

I think the US might be misleading itself if it doesn't realize that it already is. We still care for the people, but the government of the US has truly shown that it cannot be an ally today, and the rest of the world already realize this, seems the US is the last to understand it.

[riffraff]

I don't mean to downplay how terrible the current US administration is, but removing political leaders in Latin America has been a USA tradition and nobody really considers it odd. The US invading an allied country hasn't happened often.

[pojzon]

US has pulled out soldiers from EU grounds.

EU restarted domestic production of millitary equipment.

Germany is making military draft mandatory again.

Noone believes US will help like they did before (we know it was a two way deal but still..)

The moment US left EU to Russia they are now all alone. NATO is just a name now.

[tim333]

There are still ~80000 US troops in Europe. NATO is blemished but still there.

[Bridged7756]

Truly this attack on foreign soil is something without precedents for the USA. What's next, destabilize entire regions? Cause wars? Fund terrorists? Military occupation?

No matter what, let's not forget Ukraine is being attacked by evil Russia.

[rascul]

> Truly this attack on foreign soil is something without precedents for the USA. What's next, destabilize entire regions? Cause wars? Fund terrorists? Military occupation?

All those things have lots of precedent for the USA.

[croes]

Sarcasm

[rascul]

Seems like something I could have realized without someone pointing it out to me, but I didn't.

[croes]

Difficult times for sarcasm.

Better to miss when it is than to miss when it isn’t

[dataflow]

> Truly this attack on foreign soil is something without precedents for the USA

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

[christophilus]

> Without precedent

Other than probably hundreds of similar scenarios over the past 250 years or so, sure.

[croes]

You missed parent’s sarcasm

[christophilus]

Oh. Yep. I’m just so used to HN seriously thinking Trump is some new kind of evil unleashed on the world— as opposed to just more of the same thing, wrapped up in a tackier and cruder wrapper— that I only read the first sentence and replied. That’s me being a bad HN denizen for the day.