Updated Stance on Maduro & Wife Capture

I still think this was necessary for a few reasons.  We can see after this happened how many people are cheering.  This is a good thing for humanity as a whole.  However, this has caused some tensions with other countries with Xi Xing Ping from China already calling for the release of Maduro.  I don't wish to go into this specifically other than it's already been called out and this indicates the rising tensions.

I do however, think we shoulda handled the drug boats better, I think we may have moved too quickly here, but it was for a good reason, other than the oil.  That's the only "gripe" I have with what has happened.  If we truly control it in a beneficial way for Venezuela, then I see it differently.  However, taking oil and selling it ourselves when it's not ours, I think causes more problems like taking Maduro did, but I can also see that there could be benefits for the world.  We need to see what happens I think.  I will update my opinion on this when we see more.

I still firmly support the Presidents move to "forcibly extradite" Maduro, as I put it.  If someone else uses that term, I haven't seen it anywhere, and don't mean to take the term from others, if it's been used first, it's theirs, not mine.  

I have seen we are already calling for other countries to be treated the same way, I do think this would be a mistake.  I also understand we need to stop the flow of harmful drugs, and create peace anywhere we can in the world, but we are not the worlds police, that's where I'm stuck with this.  Peace is necessary for us as a human race I believe, the longer it takes to find a way to achieve this, I think the more issues we will face as a species.  At this point I don't think it will be any climate issues that causes our demise, I don't think it will be an invading species we've never found that causes our demise or AI, or zombies (yes a little farfetched, but with biological weapons being a thing, it's a possibility you can't rule out 100%).  I think our downfall as a species will be ourselves at this point.  The weaponry we have from nuclear, to other non-disclosed weapons any country may have.

I think we need to do better as a whole.

-Scott Petheram