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I appreciate that you are able to alter your position slightly, to recognise that this is how the US operates. It's not a conspiracy to say that the US has engaged in regime change in dozens and dozens of countries over the last 75 years or so. The former CIA chief openly admits this.

Too many people online can't admit when they're mistaken, so I applaud you for it.

I want the exact opposite for Ukraine and Greenland and anywhere else that are objectively good guys

I don't think there are any objective good guys.

Ukraine's (to my cursory understanding) voting system seems more democratic than what's taken place in Venezuela (which I don't have much understanding of), but from what I've read there were serious problems with corruption in Ukraine, also. (Prior to the war)

Doesn't make it okay that Russia unilaterally decided to invade after a pro-EU party came to power. That's not their prerogative. Ukraine has just as much as right to exist as any other country, flaws and all.

The only way I could accept such an invasion is if aid were requested by grass roots movements that want to install democracy (actual democracy, including proper voting systems like preferential or proportional, and not vulnerable to gerrymandering), and it be done by a coalition of countries, and only if no resource deals are done.

Basically, if an invasion isn't purely for self-defence or philanthropic reasons, it's always unjust.

Can be justified if it's retaliation to neutralise another aggressor (I wouldn't be upset if Moscow were invaded for example. And the invasions of Japan and Germany during WWII were obviously justified).

I also wouldn't be sad if the North Korean government were toppled from power, but again, I would be mad if it were a unilateral resource grab by China, Russia or the US.

In all other cases, invasions without international cooperation are not a great solution for liberating the common people, in my opinion.

And in the case of Venezuela, none of these conditions were met. So I'm against the US showing up and acting like they're allowed to do it without asking. Even if the government there is illegitimate in many people's eyes.

I would be shocked if the US invites international observation of newly run elections, and even if they do, I would be shocked if any government that is elected doesn't bend over and sign resource deals with the US - because they obviously know they'll just be coup'ed if they don't.