You really need to learn how international norms and laws have helped protect Australia. The problem here isn’t getting rid of a dictator, the problem here is the precedent this sets. The US just made every one of their allies much less safe in this world, at a time when they’re pulling back from their commitments as allies.
Question you have to ask yourself now,
What stops China from coming and lopping off the Pilbara? The only thing now is raw power, of which, we only have a little. So is the US going to come to support Aus, can we still count on them? If you look at their behaviour around Ukraine, it seems their ‘friendship’ is pretty bloody fragile these days.
What about Taiwan now? Or some of the Japanese islands? How do you think those putative allies are feeling about this?
You want to set a precedent of our times? This just did.
Look at my comment history from yesterday, i wrote a long comment response that goes into the new geopolitical threat this country and the world now faces.
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 6 days ago
I’m not defending the Venezuelan government.
But this 100% a US imperialist war for natural resources. This is their bread and butter.
If this was actually about intervention into Venezuela in a benevolent way, it would have been brought in front of the UN, or at the very, very least NATO. Or something. Anything.
Make no mistake, this has nothing to do with toppling a dictatorship, and everything to do with oil. Again.
It’s an open secret.
We’re going to protest to tell our government to stay the fuck out of it and condemn the US’s unilateral actions.
There is no “rules based order”, only might makes right.
This and the Venezuelan government being a dictatorship are not mutually exclusive.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Yes you are, you just apparently don’t seem to realise it
ok straight to conspiracy theories, cool
I’ve had enough left wing conspiracy theories for one day so I’m out
eureka@aussie.zone 6 days ago
www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87lnn09yj8o - “Trump says US will keep or sell oil seized from Venezuela”
No-ones theorising about a closed door conspiracy here. They’re seizing oil tankers and making speeches about oil, while attaching the country with the largest proven oil reserves in the world.
Countries waging wars for resources might as well be the default reason for war throughout history. It’s pretty funny that you’re dismissing it as a “left wing conspiracy theory”.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 6 days ago
ehhh after reading bfmtv.com/…/elles-representaient-96-des-revenus-d… I think you’ve got credence but having thought about it I have to admit deep down it doesn’t really bother me
maybe it’s chopper style morality, the Venezuelan government was evil and awful, if the US takes it out and gets oil for itself so much the better, I hope the Venezuelan people benefit from not being under a dictatorship and it doesn’t turn into a Libyan style hellhole, I know María Corina Machado has been someone I have been cheering for so it does look like there is a credible stable government available:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/María_Corina_Machado
A bit like if the US invaded North Korea for oil, tbh I wouldn’t be crying for Kim Jong Un or protesting the US, sometimes it is what it is, a bit like Syria having multiple bad guys fighting each other, sometimes there’s no one to cheer for
I want the exact opposite for Ukraine and Greenland and anywhere else that are objectively good guys
hopefully at least by 2027 I can spell Venezuela without needing spell check