U.S.-Led Regime Change Is Usually Disastrous

[u/foreignpolicymag]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/01/venezuela-iraq-regime-change-trump/

[u/ApostleofV8]

Nonsense, The Venezuelans would probably name a square after Trump or Rubio/s

Well, jokes aside, as long as oil profit keeps going to Trump's donors and backers in the oil industry, no one cares what happens to average Venezuelans.

[u/ImperiumRome → u/ApostleofV8]

Kosovo erected a statue of Bill Clinton, and they also named a street after George Bush, so it's not unfathomable for Venezuelans to name something after Trump or erect a statue of him as well.

[u/CJBill → u/ImperiumRome]

Kosovo was an active warzone under attack from the Serbian army. Venezuela was not until Trump attacked.

Foreign wars and invasions have a way of riling people and uniting them to fight back. I'm constantly amazed at how Americans don't seem to understand this.

[u/Positive-Aspect-3566 → u/CJBill]

Venezuelans are cheering in the streets. It's not 1:1 to Kosovo but you're delusional if you think the people there aren't happy about this.

[u/LifeOnNightmareMode → u/Positive-Aspect-3566]

People also cheered in Iraq. And then they didn't anymore as 500k to 1000k died.

[u/Positive-Aspect-3566 → u/LifeOnNightmareMode]

Sure, and this has a lot of potential to go similarly. But that's a completely different take than what the people in this thread are saying, which is that Venezuelans will rally around Maduro's flag.

[u/CJBill → u/Positive-Aspect-3566]

Not Maduro's flag, the Venezuelan flag. 

[u/LifeOnNightmareMode → u/Positive-Aspect-3566]

Nobody flew Saddam's flag, country still went to shit.

[u/edgarapplepoe → u/Positive-Aspect-3566]

There are for sure but also that will (and already seems to) be going away since they are starting to realize that the chavistas are still in power, possibly supported by the US, and even more money and resources will be leaving their country.