Hurray for Venezuela!!

Asylum for the British perhaps? I would accept, in all seriousness

Fully with you. I just hope he will hurry up and help us out in the UK too!

My dd has a good friend from Venezuela who has been displaced due to the desperate situation in her homeland .Hearing her stories over the years has made me very aware of that country and the plight of the people. Today l see those people being glad someone has come to their aid. I sincerely hope good things happen for them now as its a country rich in resources so the people deserve to live well. I am watching closely how things evolve.

Congratulations OP, I hope the future is brighter for your family.

Trump has already said that’s the plan

I think Trump being Trump he is eyeing up the profit however (as you don’t need me to point out) your country is barely afloat financially so even if the USA cream off a lot of it, hopefully there will be a trickle down effect and things will somewhat improve.

People here (who don’t live under a dictatorship and dream of Your Party winning the general election) will however say how ‘uncomfortable’ they are about international law being broken, and continue to let perfect be the enemy of good

You do realise that it was the Americans blocking the development of your oil industry. They wanted to starve you into submission. So you're basically celebrating the people who have been abusing your country and your family for decades.

Not all Venezuelans are celebrating. The ones I know aren’t, but maybe they’re being pessimistic? They seem to be expressing a sort of “out of the frying pan and into the fire” attitude. I really do hope it works out for the best. Everyone should. But yes, I do question how this is going to work out when Trump doesn’t care about the average Venezuelan. One (only one, I admit) of my Venezuelan friends thinks the US will come in, build oil infrastructure, and take all of Venezuela’s oil for itself as “thanks,” in the same way they’re trying to force Ukraine to give up all their mineral wealth to the US.

Thank you for your input. I find it rather odd that people that have never lived in that country have such opposing views. As someone whose parents left a country due to communism, I understand the relief of the Venezuelan people. I hope they find peace and overthrow this regime 💐

If you are Venezuelan then I am not surprised you are celebrating being free from that arsehole and being grateful for someone finally taking action against him. I sincerely hope that it all works out for you and at least now there is a space for hope.

It’s Greenland next…

Grenada, El Salvador & Nicaragua have all been "saved" too.
How's it going for them? Are they prosperous nice places to live nowadays, do you think?

Is modern El Salvador what you aspire to be like, OP?

Now that bogeyman Venezuela is taken care of, who next? Cuba? Mexico? Colombia? iran? What do you reckon? I think it's easy to predict: which one has the weakest military/ fewest backers? So that's Cuba, probably, right?

Trump could not give a shit about the people only the oil.
i really hope there is stability and things vastly improve but it wasn’t done for those reasons and I would be very wary

Yes I was one who had absolutely no idea, but have now read up. There are a lot of displaced citizens who I hope will be able to return home in time.

I think Mumsnetters are far more comfortable with ‘ideals’ being upheld than the reality of what that looks like. But then they don’t live in a dictatorship and Trump is a sexist, so 🤷‍♀️

Enjoy your saviour :)