From what I hear, Ma made 1 speech critical of the government and Xi showed him his place. It was a few years, a year of total disappearance followed by slow rehab.

But China is different. Not sure most of western europe will go that far in most cases.

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SanjayMehta 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Trump kidnapped Maduro to show the latter his place, but then the US is neither China nor Western Europe so that does not count.

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almosthere 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Arrested and the vast majority of Venezuela love that it happened.

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/venezuela-survey-trump-ma...

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tyre 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I mean, come on, we kidnapped him. Yes, he was arrested, but we went into another sovereign nation with special forces and yoinked their head of state back to Brooklyn.

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SanjayMehta an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Rand Paul asked Rubio what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot. Every US President from Truman onwards is a war criminal.

https://www.tampafp.com/rand-paul-and-marco-rubio-clash-over...

	▲	foolserrandboy 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The people of the US mostly wouldn’t like it the people of VZ mostly did and consider Maduro a thug who lost and stayed in power not their president. Ideologies like Paul have trouble with exceptions to their world view.