France is in no condition for any war, they could at most crackdown on tiny New Caledonia but have no strenght to do anything to Sahel states. UK military is in complete shambles. So not only they are unwilling to stand to USA but unable to.
Maduro being a figurehead isn’t a problem, it’s a good thing.
If anything, it clearly shows he isn't the dictator US claims he is, so maybe it's time for the clueless to doubt rest of that mountain of bullshit spewed against him and Venezuela.
Idk what science fiction you have been reading, but nearly entire genre is pretty much dark by now. The only visions which are "better" are just the unreal end of history and the return to status quo space operas which are also usually centered around epic military conflicts and completely gloss over, or rather run away from the contradictions of capitalism ("look, the universe is infinite, we can keep expanding forever!"). A LOT of works are just complete dystopias or postapo scenarios.
Don't threat us with a good time Donald. Especially after you reaffirmed you're even worse on international politics than the fucking fash duck brother.
So you think a "good" minority have to assimilate and if they don't want to they need to be forced to? This is precisely what the cultural genocide is.
Trump is not a cartoon villain, and the letter agencies thugs are certainly not cartoon villains, they are real ones, and on the forefront of torture enhanced interrogation techniques research.
As if they even care about this. This is case with no precedent, they will just use some lip service patriot act shit to neutralise all protections and then torture him and use his wife as hostage before the trial. Of course they could flop everything spectacularly out of sheer incompetence and thoughtlessness on their part, but i wouldn't count, and even if, they can always murder him like Milosevic.
Denmark was complaining when US founded military base in Greenland originally, they were made to shut up after joining NATO. So this is ongoing humilation for 80 years already, but it's ok since they don't yell about it. I have zero expectations even open annexation will make libs confront reality, they will just said that it's for the better. Even if Trump do it, their objections towars him instantly evaporated when he "did the right thing in their book" by kidnapping Maduro.
If it was, it would be called "obtanium", duh