In today's news...

[SoulLess Child]

Didn't stay dead for long

Noticed that too.

 

[AceofWind]

We just lost both Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Known for playing Theo Huxtable on the Cosby Show) and Heavy Metal legend Ozzy Osbourne. May they both rest in peace

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[AceofWind]

And Hulk Hogan has passed as well at the age of 71. May he rest in peace

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Edit: And Chuck Mangione at 84. May he also rest in peace

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[SoulLess Child]

and no mention of the Venezuela thing?

 

[super_slicer]

Too early to comment, if we don't have to occupy it with troops and there's no insurgency there's really no reason to care. It's not as if Venezuelan sovereignty means anything.

 

[SoulLess Child]

Too early to comment, if we don't have to occupy it with troops and there's no insurgency there's really no reason to care. It's not as if Venezuelan sovereignty means anything.

The new precedent it set says otherwise.

 

[super_slicer]

The new precedent it set says otherwise.

LOLwhut? the U.S. has been in the business of beating up weak countries with oil that won't do what we want for decades now.

 

[XSI]

Not that unusual, really. This time it isn't for bananas and it isn't done by corporations. But the US has a history of considering the American continents (both North and South) theirs to do with as they please, regardless of the world's opinion or the opinion of locals living there
This time it seems people are at least happy they kicked out someone unpopular, even if they dislike that it was the US doing it basically because they felt like it

 

[SoulLess Child]

Done without approval of, or warning to, the Congress and the UN, kinda like a certain assassination 6 years ago.

 

[super_slicer]

the UN

Are entitled to nothing and lack the hard power to demand anything of the U.S. .

 

[XSI]

On one hand, the US has spent several decades, almost a whole century after WW2 building and supporting a rules-based international order where they are the most prestigious and powerful. The very system of international trade and the international laws are set up largely to favour the US, or at the very least, US corporations and their version of capitalism.
On the other, the US has also very specifically said for several decades to almost a century that they do not give a shit about international law and anything of the sort. They'll do what they want and if you don't like it they have no problem bombing you or invading your country.

They've been pretty honest about it all along. They don't really give a shit what the UN thinks. What is the UN going to do about it? Write a sternly worded letter?
If congress cared enough, they have the power to put a stop to it. But they won't. Because they're more interested in profiting off it. Or at least, enough of them are kept in the loop to profit off it that any attempt to stop this sort of actions will fail

The system is basically set up to allow this sort of thing to happen. And as long as it only happens to South American and African countries nobody really cares enough to do anything about it