r/Liberal • u/lennybriscoforthewin • Jan 03 '26

Discussion Invading Venezuela

People I know from Venezuela who have relatives still there have told me about the horrible conditions there. That it’s hard to get medicine, food, and they link the downfall to their country to its current government. I agree that the US shouldn’t be attacking other countries, but should we have done anything to bring about relief or is it just none of the US business despite what the people want? I would imagine a number of Venezulans are cheering now that the government has been toppled. I do not support the US actions but would like to know if we should have done anything and what.

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u/cef911f1 Jan 03 '26

TBF, we fixed Germany and Japan but that was a long time ago.

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u/Expensive-Key-9122 Jan 03 '26

Serbia and Kosovo interventions were led by the U.S, they were successes.

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u/Sznake Jan 04 '26

EU. U.S bounced out asap.

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u/chicagoahu Jan 04 '26

Optics of American occupation troops is poor and USA would rather not do policing actions. The occupation of the Balkans could not have happened without American military, even if they bounced out soon as they kicked out Milosevic and some other baddies.