(01-04-2026, 09:03 AM)FlyersFan Wrote: No. Pretty much fact.
1/3 of the country left.
It's full of corruption and crime.
The President wasn't really elected.
He's a dictator.
And it's a fact that whoever gets elected there will have Trump/USA to
thank for being in the position of President. Without our intervention
they wouldn't have the job. That means they are going to be
ruling with a thankful slant towards US Policy and away from Russia
and China who have their claws in Venezuela now.
How does your claim of a third of the people leaving prove a dictatorship?
Mass emigration also happens due to poverty and sanctions.
Nevermind the regional instability of the entire area in question.
Corruption and crime are indeed real problems.
But that's true in many nations that still have elections.
Including your own, with Trump at the helm.
And the "Wasn't really elected" claim depends on who you ask.
A lot of people did indeed recognise the election, while others didn't.
That's contested, not a settled fact.
And the idea that any future president will owe their job to Trump is a recipe for disaster if ever there was one.
Venezuelan politics are driven mainly by internal power struggles.
Assuming permanent US loyalty ignores history and the nationalism at play.
Nevermind the possible ramifications and backlash for meddling in the first place.
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."