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by beng-nl | 2026-01-03 14:14:23+00:00
I could go along with this to some degree if any country would be able to act the same way the USA is doing; then there would be a balance of power. But as it is, only a small number of powerful nations are able to act like this, without military repercussions.

So if Venezuela wanted to forcefully reverse a coup in the USA? Or Canada wanted to reverse election fraud in the USA?

They can’t. So the USA shouldn’t either.

Unless you can tolerate living by the whim of a more powerful bully.

Which I, as a non-us resident/citizen, am forced to tolerate now, but don’t like.

So no, I don’t think nations can justify interfering in sovereign nations by force for any reason.
by andrepd | 2026-01-03 14:14:32+00:00
5000 years of civilisation and a sizeable chunk of the population of first-world countries still doesn't understand why law and courts are better than "just kill people who are le bad".

Let's not even talk about the killing of shipwrecked people who are hors de combat according to the Geneva Convention. Even the Nazis during unrestricted submarine warfare had the decency of not murdering shipwrecked crews and passengers. We are truly in a wretched time when nothing matters anymore.
by matthewaveryusa | 2026-01-03 14:14:36+00:00
I appreciate your world view and politico-science philosophical approach, but Venezuela has natural resources, is close to the USA, and decided to mingle with American competitors.

Venezuela was supported via economic trade with nations not aligned with US objectives in exchange for security guarantees that would supposedly prevent US intervention.

More concretely: Russia was supposedly supporting them through economic activity and arms trades. Russia is overextended in Ukraine which is providing an opening and a cautionary signal to any other state that has Russian support that, in fact, any Russian security guarantees aren’t backed by more than words. See Iran and Syria as well.

This is very transactional and a spheres of influence move. It’s also pressuring Russia to find an Ukraine deal fast. The longer they’re in Ukraine the more their global sphere of influence is being reduced due to their inability to fight multiple military fronts at once.

Unclear how China fits in the picture.
by polyterative | 2026-01-03 14:14:52+00:00
Given the current situation regarding the hardware getting more pricey, I was so fed up with the inconsistencies, the constant micro lagging frame rate drops that I finally bit the bullet on a Mac studio a couple of weeks ago. This happened after 17 years of being a Windows user and having built more than 20 machines unfortunately Linux does not have a lot commercial software that I needed
by themaninthedark | 2026-01-03 14:15:21+00:00
On a side note, it was kind of strange watching the media dance around what Chavez was doing. When he first took power and started seizing money and power it was all framed as he is demolishing the corrupt institutions. Then as election irregularities started happening and the economy started failing, the blame was placed on the U.S for boycotting them.
by kledru | 2026-01-03 14:15:36+00:00
Not only the region... A worry is the step will encourage other regimes that feel they have might to remove leaders they do not like and replace them with marionette-like figures. Also, here we have another permanent member of UN Security Council making decisions to intervene without consulting the UN or even their own constitutional bodies...

(My opinion of Maduro is that he was not a legitimate leader.)
by andai | 2026-01-03 14:15:53+00:00
It was one or two elections ago that we entirely dropped the pretense of dignity.

Quite refreshing, actually.

Earlier today I heard the argument that idealism was promoted in the West because it encourages a separation from reality and makes people easier to control.

I consider myself an idealist. I just don't believe that ignorance and delusion are the means by which an ideal can be brought about.
by guessbest | 2026-01-03 14:15:54+00:00
I'm guessing willingly Maduro surrendered as he took the cash offer from Dec 1, 2025 while publicly rejecting it. After all, he left with his wife.

> “You can save yourself and those closest to you, but you must leave the country now,” Trump reportedly said, offering safe passage for Maduro, his wife and his son “only if he agreed to resign right away”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/trump-maduro-u...
by gordian-mind | 2026-01-03 14:15:57+00:00
What specific kind? The "economic world" exists in that you can work for companies with shareholders, you can work for other companies, you can work for NGOs and whatever other structures. What OP's whiney comment does is complain about the ones people like to work at because the pay is good. And his comment doesn't come from being an expert in economics (he's a programmer), it comes from vibes. Well what about aligning the vibes with the salary? Oh, no...
by phtrivier | 2026-01-03 14:16:36+00:00
If it's to get access to the oil reserve, it is bad news for the shale oil industry in the USA : maybe "drill baby drill" is not feasible any more, and the only way to maintain the level of GDP is to get the oil from somewhere else.

Or it's just banking oil to prepare a war with China.

Thank FSM some AI-first is going to create fusion any time soon to power the robots solving climate change.
by munksbeer | 2026-01-03 14:16:50+00:00
Out of all the many years of fighting a war on drugs, what difference is this going to make? Some lackeys (forced potentially) get blown up, the barons find some more, or use different methods, and 40 years later we're still fighting the war on drugs.

People love drugs. They really want to get hold of them. Someone is going to keep supplying drugs, no matter how many lackeys you blow up.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2026-01-03 14:16:50+00:00
Regardless of your opinion of maduro, you can still acknowledge that if the head of a sovereign state enacts policies that result in the mass emigration of 8M to neighboring countries, destabilizing all of them [1],[2] in the process, exporting criminal enterprises, any affected head of the affected government certainly has casus belli on said head of state.

The policy of no aggression applies. If a government, thru its actions (or inactions) causes massive aggression and hurt on your own people, then its your *duty* as elected official, to stop it and protect your citizens

Self-defense is literally the most important mandate a government can have.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/crime-migration-spect...

[2] https://www.cgdev.org/publication/data-against-fear-what-num...
by anthk | 2026-01-03 14:17:09+00:00
Some Spanish politicians tried to shift Venezuela into a former social-democracy and this move will just make Venezuela shield over and probably have a good reason to actually support China, Russia and undesirable forces and OFC Cuba.

And, ironically, Cuba was an ongoing process to liberalize the country under an hybrid regime making good support for capitalist small and medium sizes companies. IDK if they were co-operatives or vertically founded, but I'm pretty sure the companies where not under a state 15-year plan.

More on cooperativism:

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

Under a cooperative you are both an employee and a member, and before being employed you need to pay some relatively-high initial invest for a blue collar worker. But later the company profits/surpluses are more evenly shared.

That should have been the rational step in order to avoid this mess. But you know, when cult irraltional nuts rule everything (in both political sides) you just get fancy in-book theories but disastrous outcomes.

PD:Cuban die-hard socialists would just accept collecting taxes to support the rest of state-funded infra, such as healthcare. The money moves between the Cubans and the state would just work as before but with less bureaucracy. And this way you would avoid both the state and private monopolies picking up all the profit.
by delichon | 2026-01-03 14:17:24+00:00
> We did a two decade, trillions of dollars revenge tour for like 2700 people dying.

Then what is the expected scale of a revenge tour for 48,422 fentanyl overdose deaths in 2024 and 76,282 in 2023?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/releases/20250514.html
by crazybonkersai | 2026-01-03 14:17:45+00:00
> No such explicit assurances have ever existed and if someone claims russian politicians have believed some spoken sentences as ratified pacts, they are either dumb or lying. Anyway, Russia also promised in writing to guarantee the territorial integrity and safety of Ukraine (1994), so there is no reason to believe anything they say or write for the foreseeable future.

You can look at this issue from both sides. The Budapest Memorandum was exactly that—a memorandum—and it was never ratified by Russia. As such, it carries no more legal weight than the security assurances provided by NATO. Moreover, it was largely the Clinton administration, together with the EU, that pressured Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons, since no one wanted the emergence of a new nuclear state in Europe.

> For which they never apologised.

You are also incorrect on the historical point. Russia officially apologised for the Winter War during Yeltsin’s presidency, along with issuing several other apologies for Soviet-era crimes. Finland, by contrast, has never apologised for its own actions, nor does it adequately teach about its own atrocities. Ask the average Finn how Finland acquired Petsamo or about Finland’s role in the siege of Leningrad, and you are unlikely to encounter much regret or acknowledgment of responsibility.

> And this is exactly why many people say the only good Russian is a dead one. If the country and nation wants to be universally hated, it should proceed exactly like that.

And that is just sheer racism and speech hate.
by curiouser12 | 2026-01-03 14:17:48+00:00
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by tsimionescu | 2026-01-03 14:18:40+00:00
You're not really saying anything, in fact, just bashing everyone else's opinion.

And note that we can look at history and see that, sometimes, people's honest opinions about their own country and what is best for it happen to be wrong. Libyans were extremely happy when Gaddafi was killed - and now they're living in much worse conditions than when he was alive. Many Afghans welcomed the US toppling of the brutal taliban regime, and now after twenty years of brutal war, the taliban are back in power as if nothing happened.

It would be absolutely wonderful if the same fate doesn't happen to Venezuela. I sincerely wish and hope that they will have a provisional government which quickly organizes free and fair elections and that a much better leader is elected who can start reversing the damage Maduro did. I don't think this is particularly likely to happen, sadly, looking at the history and track-record of violent regime change by foreign powers. This observation remains true regardless of what the people of Venezuela think and hope, sadly.
by alt227 | 2026-01-03 14:18:56+00:00
No I dont agree at all.

Usage is in no way 'rapidly increasing', in fact the google graph everyone is touting around shows that it has taken over 10 years to not even get to 50%. It also shows it is slowing down, the curve is starting to become less steep.

When Maximum possible IPv6 usage is not even at 50% after over a decade and the usage curve is slowing, how can you possibly say that IPv4 is dying and IPv6 usage is rapidly increasing?
by bashbjorn | 2026-01-03 14:19:13+00:00
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by dredmorbius | 2026-01-03 14:19:28+00:00
These are not mutually exclusive propositions.

Your source, in translation, describes no specific responses, but largely that "The regime ordered the deployment of military and police commands throughout the country".

This is not inconsistent with, say, the US making an offer that Venezuelan military command in charge of air defences couldn't refuse, say, to stand down and not challenge US air supremacy.

I'm not saying that this did happen, but it's one plausible scenario, particularly for a country whose core competency is literally manufacturing US dollars, the most-prized currency worldwide.
by baubino | 2026-01-03 14:19:38+00:00
> What about dictators? What about military coups and forcefully reversing them?

Once upon a time, “forcefully” doing anything with any country for any reason was considered an act of war. I agree that bad people should be removed from power. But the consequences associated with doing so forcefully (i.e., engaging in acts of war) need to be fully acknowledged and dealt with. The U.S. (and others) have played this game of “military actions” for so long that we, the regular people, have taken up that language uncritically as well. Once force enters, it is an act of war. Period. A discussion about whether country A should declare a war to remove the leader of country B is a much more honest and accurate one than vaguely positing whether country A can “capture” the leader of country B.
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-03 14:19:39+00:00
> I think we can both agree that lawfully and democratically elected leader of country A having a lawfully and democratically elected leader of country B captured is bad, for all the obvious reasons. What about ${WHATABOUTISM}?

I think a regime that is hell-bent on kidnapping foreign leaders at the whim of it's glorious leader by circumventing any of it's checks and balances, such as congress approval, is clearly and by far the worst problem.

And calling the US under the Trump administration "democratic" is a hell of a stretch, even as a thought experiment.
by ben_w | 2026-01-03 14:19:48+00:00
> If we're talking about genuine CSAM, that very different and not even limited to undressing.

Why would you think I was talking about anything else?

Also, "subset" != "very different"

> What the former want is not illegal. So the fact they are a minority is irrelevent. Minorites have rights too.

This is newsworthy because non-consensual undressing of images of a minor, even by an AI, already passes the requisite threshold in law and by broad social agreement.

This is not a protected minority.
by crims0n | 2026-01-03 14:20:15+00:00
I disagree, something I learned pretty quick when we moved out of the city. How do you haul your trash to the dump when there is no pickup service in your area? How do you acquire a replacement dishwasher, oven, refrigerator, or big screen TV when you are outside the delivery area of the appliance store? Need a cord of firewood? A bed of mulch? Topsoil for the garden? 2x4s for a deck or workbench? Etc. Etc.

Trucks become more practical in rural areas because of the lack of amenities that exist around cities and towns.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-01-03 14:20:16+00:00
Hundreds of billions in support, massively increased defense spending, and hefty sanctions are obviously nothing..

Also much more people have been to Italy,or at least know the country and it's culture compared to Ukraine. So the Fallout in Public Opinion would be way worse. China would also be salivating at an Opportunity to isolate the US, and that would be one presented on a silver platter
by olivierestsage | 2026-01-03 14:20:41+00:00
For most of the 2010s, you could fairly say that Windows, macOS, and Linux were all good in different ways; the choice simply came down to what your personal priorities were. With the changes of the past few years, though, it's starting to look more like a binary choice: on the Windows-and-macOS side you get ads, mandatory online accounts, cloud nagging, telemetry, AI; on the Linux side, you just... don't get those things.
by julianlam | 2026-01-03 14:21:09+00:00
> Part of the value of a US passport is knowing (and everyone else knowing) that the government will go to incredible lengths to get you back.)

Is this even the case anymore?

The government has shown to turn a blind eye when natural disasters affect states that voted majority voted for the other party. Their own citizens.

If you were stuck overseas but are an outspoken Democrat, I would not count on your government to get you home.
by andai | 2026-01-03 14:21:15+00:00
>Monroe asserted that the New World and the Old World were to remain distinctly separate spheres of influence,[4] and thus further efforts by European powers to control or influence sovereign states in the region would be viewed as a threat to U.S. security.[5][6]

>In turn, the United States would recognize and not interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal affairs of European countries.

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

Does that last part apply to Venezuela? Or has the doctrine evolved?
by estearum | 2026-01-03 14:22:06+00:00
Would be nice if true, but not really.

The reason construction slowed down so much is that developers fear another 2008. We have just barely gotten back onto a historically normal-ish pace of construction: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

And this talk of "just build build build," while not wrong per se, overlooks the fact that of course prices will come down, which then discourages construction. The system is self-equilibrating. 2008 reset the equilibrium point very low for 15 years, and now the nature of the costs of construction (labor and land) means it is not advantageous for anyone to build starter homes, and it's hardly advantageous to build homes at all.

Restrictive zoning is a problem and would be a very tidy explanation of all the woes of residential in the US, but there really isn't much evidence for it mattering that much in the grand scheme of things.

The single most important factor in home prices is local income levels. This gets baked into both land prices and labor costs, which then makes it very difficult to profitably build much, and completely unprofitable to build entry level homes.

The K-shaped economy is itself causing housing unaffordability. https://www.nber.org/papers/w33576
by dstroot | 2026-01-03 14:23:12+00:00
It’s ~1,000 miles from the US to Venezuela. Have you ever been on a fishing boat? Especially an “overpowered” one? Guess how much fuel they burn? It’s very unlikely a boat has enough fuel to make it to the US, and if it did it would need fuel to get back. Where are they getting the fuel for these drug runs?
by npilk | 2026-01-03 14:23:13+00:00
Consider this, from an FAQ on consequentialism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism):

> The end does justify the means. This is obvious with even a few seconds' thought, and the fact that the phrase has become a byword for evil is a historical oddity rather than a philosophical truth.

> Hollywood has decided that this should be the phrase Persian-cat-stroking villains announce just before they activate their superlaser or something. But the means that these villains usually employ is killing millions of people, and the end is subjugating Earth beneath an iron-fisted dictatorship. Those are terrible means to a terrible end, so of course it doesn't end up justified.

> Next time you hear that phrase, instead of thinking of a villain activating a superlaser, think of a doctor giving a vaccination to a baby. Yes, you're causing pain to a baby and making her cry, which is kinda sad. But you're also preventing that baby from one day getting a terrible disease, so the end justifies the means. If it didn't, you could never give any vaccinations.

> If you have a really important end and only mildly unpleasant means, then the end justifies the means. If you have horrible means that don't even lead to any sort of good end but just make some Bond villain supreme dictator of Earth, then you're in trouble - but that's hardly the fault of the end never justifying the means.

(Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20140220063523/https://www.raiko...)

Note that it's not clear whether the end does justify the means in this specific case, and likely won't be for some time, if ever.
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 14:23:23+00:00
> IPv6 has SO many special networks. Network. Public. Multicast. Link local.

IPv4 has those exact same ones: link-local (169.254/16), multicast (224/4), public, private (RFC 1918).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses

IPv6 is (IMHO) simpler: 2001::/32 and anything else (either link-local (fe80), multicast (ff00), and ULA (fc)). So either it starts with a "2" or an "f".
by alt227 | 2026-01-03 14:23:31+00:00
Jealousy? I think you may need to expand your vocabulary a bit!

I have an opinion on something, I assume thats ok? You seem to be here trying to prove me wrong, and also commenting on my tone of reply.

Im not trying to tell you that you are wrong, only stating what I think. If you dont like my opinion, feel free to ignore it. You are not forced to comment.
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-03 14:23:42+00:00
Russia would be very happy to install a puppet regime in Ukraine, as long as they had some certainty this regime would be stable and subservient to their interests. We know for a fact that they don't care about necessarily invading other countries as long as those countries are subservient: they are not planning to annex Belarus, nor did they have any real problems with Ukraine as long as it was led by their preferred leaders and it was not making any overtures to NATO or the EU.

The exact same thing will happen in Venezuela: the USA will be happy with any leader that they have confidence will represent US interests, stop doing any business with Russia or Iran, and that they think will last. If instead another member of Maduro's party looks likely to win power, either now or in the near future, they will certainly not allow that to happen, even if it were to happen as a result of free elections.