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beng-nllast Saturday at 2:14 PM3 repliesview on HN

I could go along with this to some degree if any country would be able to act the same way the USA is doing; then there would be a balance of power. But as it is, only a small number of powerful nations are able to act like this, without military repercussions.

So if Venezuela wanted to forcefully reverse a coup in the USA? Or Canada wanted to reverse election fraud in the USA?

They can’t. So the USA shouldn’t either.

Unless you can tolerate living by the whim of a more powerful bully.

Which I, as a non-us resident/citizen, am forced to tolerate now, but don’t like.

So no, I don’t think nations can justify interfering in sovereign nations by force for any reason.


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literalAardvarklast Saturday at 2:18 PM

Peace has only ever been achieved by waving around a big stick.

This is one such event.

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drnick1last Saturday at 2:52 PM

> They can’t. So the USA shouldn’t either.

That's not the way international relations work.