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Yup. Venezuelans voted for the Bolivaran Revolution. This is it. We shouldn’t waste our time with it. Especially because every time we topple a regime like this it creates a refugee crisis and a huge influx of refugees to the U.S.

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The US already has a refugee crisis because of Maduro's leadership, that refugee crisis is one of the reasons for this.

The US already had a huge influx of Venezualan refugees because of the Maduro regime.

I didn't know Maduro was responsible for protecting the US border. Perhaps he should be charged with "dereliction of duty"? To go along with his other trumped up charges (ha.. ha..) such as "possession of machine guns and other destructive devices".

There might be more than one reason for an ongoing crisis, and different takes on who’s responsible. However Maduro is responsible of huge number of refugees fleeing Venezuela, and we (and some other countries around) have some obligations to help asylum seekers.

Except we didn’t and there’s already an ongoing refugee crisis.

[0] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2024/08/02/what-are-the-odds-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis

Does it matter to you that they then voted against it, probably more than once?

What is the “it” they voted against? Did the reject the ideology? Or are they just unhappy with the current dictator but will vote for the next one that comes along?

The refugee crisis was already ongoing precisely due to the dire situation of Venezuela. They stole the 2024 election as well, the opposition won BIG.

...except there already is a refugee crisis caused be the regime that is supposed to be toppled, 20% of Venezuelans have left the country.

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