• TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world
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    2 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.

    • CanadaPlus@futurology.today
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      1 day 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)