Recent content by rodoheel

Nah they just walk more

Connect the dots for me between "we are over-reliant on China for cheap goods" (don't necessarily disagree) and "China/Russia can't be allowed to have economic influence/presence in Latin America and Greenland."

Whether or not that's true, none of that justifies us potentially making up for our prior complacency by simply taking resources or land we think we need, by force, from other sovereign nations. That would make us every bit the "bad guys" that Germany and Japan were in WWII, and make other...

In fact this is almost exactly the line of thinking that led Japan to attack its neighbors, and then attack the US, UK, and other allied possessions in the Pacific in 1941 - that they needed the natural resources (oil, steel, rubber, etc) to keep up militarily.

Bingo. This is the exact point I've been making to calla in the Venezuela thread that he refuses to acknowledge.

Right. Greenland is strategically important to the US. Which does not mean we have to literally own it. We are close allies with the country that does control it. We have wide access to the country for own own use. It's a great situation, except for the part where our leaders are needlessly and...

Meh, this is just mealy-mouthed gobbledygook. You're either not willing to parse, or not capable of parsing, what circumstances actually justified the US action so you keep bouncing between two completely unrelated things and insisting you don't have to choose. Your prior posts are not...

The 'regime change" talk is coming from Trump and his admin's public statements. They are saying we did this to keep the oil and run the country and all that stuff. Whether Trump would be justified in a police action to seize a criminal on foreign soil - highly debatable - is irrelevant when...

Who is the correct president we put into place? Maduro's long-serving VP is currently the acting President. She is not any more legitimately elected than Maduro.

Hey look, the goalposts have moved back again. How do you explain why the US has a valid, justifiable right to attack countries 1300 miles away from us to ensure that Russia/China don't have a "presence" there but China/Russia don't have a valid, justifiable right to attack countries much closer...

You can't even keep your story straight. Your prior posts talk about the US having a national security interest in keeping China and Russia from building influence in Venezuela and buying commodities from them. Now your answer here ignores that logic and says our justification was based on...

This is highly debatable, and according to most reputable legal scholars likely wrong, and you are asserting it like it's absolutely true. But in any event, that clearly isn't all that we did, and Trump and his admin are not trying to hide it. If all that we did was snatch a criminal for a...

I thought your position was that we merely arrested a criminal, pursuant to which we incidentally dropped some bombs and killed a few dozen people, not that we "forced regime change." Which is it? Perhaps a better question, then, would be: what gives us the right to enter Venezuela forcibly...

OK. What is it that Trump/Miller may want to do that is prevented by "our system"? It is pretty clear that the admin is going to ignore the aspects of our constitutional framework that would ordinarily require them to seek the approval of Congress, whether with respect to declarations of war or...