• doleo@lemmy.one
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        5 days ago

        2? At least 6. EDIT: I take this back, I misread/read too lazily. It was 2 centuries, not decades.

        • Calfpupa [she/her]@lemmy.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          5 days ago

          I’ve been reading Open Veins so I pause at claiming the US was out-terrorizing Spain in the Americas, and British Empire deserve credit for their atrocities as well though it’s easy to argue USA is the continuation of that.

          • doleo@lemmy.one
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            5 days ago

            No, you’re quite right. I take it back. I read far too hastily. You clearly said centuries and I read decades.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        4 days ago

        at some later date, when the united states is barely a regional power, the venezuelans will forget why there was any animus in the first place and i don’t know how to feel about that.

    • Red5@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      5 days ago

      What other option do they have? The US just steals ships and will bomb the shit out of them some more, then abduct the next president and the next until they get the policies they want