Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "Why Are People In Venezuela Starving (Hyperinflation Explained)?" video.

Steack Hutzee Yeah. That must explain why there are Russian and Chinese troops and tanks on the streets with Russian fighter jets at the bases there. Not a single American soldier in sight, but Maduro sold the country to the Americans. Amazing!
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Tan Akinci Any nation has the right to embargo another nation in this world. OPEC embargoed the USA in 1973 in response to its role in the Yom Kippur war. Are you implying the Americans have no right to do the same?
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Tan Akinci Literally for nothing? Now I have to LOL at you! Why not take a trip to NK and then say that. Btw, the embargo on Vietnam ended over twenty years ago. The only reason it existed in the first place was because the USA didn’t trust Vietnam after the war, but they have since made up.
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@plankalkulcompiler9468 I will agree that Vietnam itself did nothing wrong, although the north DID violate the terms of the 1954 Geneva agreement by attacking the south. Part of that agreement was that the US was obliged to provide assistance to the south but nothing more; severe mission creep set in under JFK and went full under Johnson. I think you are incorrect about Korea though. The 38th latitude border was decided at the end of WW2 and given implicit respect by the Soviet Union; they did not proceed south and the US did not proceed north. The North Korean government under Kim Il Sung decided to invade the south, and immediately declared war on the US by engaging in combat against the US forces stationed there under the occupation of Japan. In fact, the US took massive casualties at first and retreated to the Pusan area of Korea to hold a last stand until the invasion at Inchon. Say what you wish about Vietnam, that I can agree with but there is no question that NK was the aggressor in the Korean War. With Russian fighter pilots, of course. (Russian POWs in the US is one of the very best kept secrets of that war!)
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@plankalkulcompiler9468 Uh, could you provide me an example of the US using nuclear weapons on Laos? The US used conventional bombs there, not nuclear.
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@plankalkulcompiler9468 Imperialist attack? The US occupied SK peacefully after Japan surrendered. The plan was to unify the country after elections in 1956, but Kim Il Sung invaded the south before that, which scuttled the plan. If he had waited, things would likely have turned out better for him. Stalins approval of the invasion cost the USSR a great deal, and it is often cited as one of the primary motivations for Beria to have poisoned him due to the humiliation that was endured.
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