Don’t look at the sun is advice that applies more broadly than just the celestial object.

It sure feels like our military leadership is not equipped to meet the moment.

The network effect seems to be the strong nuclear force of online interaction.

That person was definitely being sarcastic.

I agree with all of that. I think our’s and Europe’s leaders are making the exact wrong move. This is a moment where we should be locking arms with they as well as Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, etc and projecting strength right back at the US. Not falling for their bravado.

I recently watched an interview with Marco Rubio and am actually significantly less worried about American aggression since. Not because he allayed my concerns, but because he reminded me that this administration is incompetent.

Let’s put what the US is saying aside for a moment and look at the actual situation in Venezuela. Maduro’s government is still in control. His VP has assumed duties and doesn’t seem to be playing along. There are no American boots on the ground. There doesn’t appear to be any plans to put boots on the ground. In the interview with Rubio, he laid out what the plan was. They are going to use their fleet to embargo Venezuela and pressure the already existing government until they do what the US wants.

What? How is that different from what they were doing before Maduro was abducted? What did abducting Maduro change here? In the past when doing regime change the US would have some local element ready to take advantage of the chaos to seize control of the government. My suspicion is that something similar was planned here, but for whatever reason the local part of the coup never fired. What we are looking at is a failed coup. And what we’ve seen from the US since, the lies about the Venezuelan VP being in Russia, the lies that she was playing along, the threats against various other countries in the western hemisphere, it’s all marketing. Chest beating from the US to project an illusion of strength in the face of this failure. The one thing Trump is pretty good at is controlling the narrative, and that’s what they are attempting to do here, but it’s coming from a place of weakness, not strength.

Of course, this is all speculation on my part and I would still advise preparing for the worst. But I think the US is trying to cow all it’s neighbours with threats that it won’t be able to back up. If they aren’t willing to put boots on the ground in Venezuela for oil, they sure as hell aren’t going to invade Denmark for “national security”.

The current push for Alberta separation is an American assisted op to destabilize Canada. The separatists lost their right to make such a claim the moment they started courting foreign support. They crossed the line from separation to sedition, in my opinion.

I’m not the one who complained about whataboutism. I pointed out that it’s hypocritical to whine about me doing it if you’re not also going to whine about the original commenter doing it. Which is fine, it’s legal to be a hypocrite. One should own it, though.

My point is the USA is a warmonger who needs to be treated as such. Further, you are aware that the beginning of this thread is literally a yank doing a whataboutism in the opposite direction? Why don’t you go whine to them if that bothers you so much?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_People's_Republic_of_China

I invite people to compare these two pages. I really don’t care to hear from any yanks on this.

I can open both, though your second link leads to a 404, I had to open it via the Telesur homepage.

I’m very aware of the Cuban missile crisis, thank you. What you support is rolling over without a fight. I’ll direct you to the second half of my previous comment.

What an incredibly stupid message when a lot of Canadians have to be thinking, “Are we next?”

Canada needs a nuclear arsenal. If you are against this, you are against Canadian sovereignty.

It’s also an attack on Canadian sovereignty.

Nope.

More legitimate than what the US is up to.

No, not you. MareOfNights.

Nope, I was definitely right. You are intentionally interpreting a joke in the most unfavourable way possible to give yourself the opportunity to feel good at someone else’s expense.

What the previous poster was getting at is that they are an annoying person who takes jokes literally to give themselves the opportunity to feel morally superior to people. I’m sure the meme creator would agree that apartheid, slavery, and outlawing same-sex marriage would be bad.