• TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I meant kidnapped in place of ousted. We literally just… Kidnapped a sitting ruler, and then just… Moved in the news cycle. Like, I know Maduro wasn’t a good guy… But the fact that we just… Dragged him out of his house and “whisked” him out of the country? It’s unreal to me in this day and age. I know it’s not entirely unprecedented, but I always assumed that all happened because of the ability to obscure the facts from the public eye, due to the lack of mass communication.

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        5 days ago

        Does blowing up Iran’s supreme leader seem better or worse, then? I dunno, it’s all just war by international laws and norms. (Although Trump has to avoid calling it that for domestic legal reasons)

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          4 days ago

          Worse, due to the number of people killed in that process…and the fact that it’s still happening, regardless of all the BS/rhetoric from government officials “outraged” at the illegality of it all. I actually think they stopped worrying about calling it anything else, at this point.