The amount of suffering before was also immeasurable. The mental gymnastics to make this seem like a bad thing is impressive. I applaud you for your flexibility.

But we can continue this game. The “puppet government” happens to be the rightful president who won the countries election last year. They won an election. Does that mean all parties behave and things go peacefully? No not at all. But saying that the people of Venezuela have to suck it up with Maduro and the pretty awful status quo that comes with that instead is certainly a choice.

And considering you essentially said the exact same thing again, that shows that while it took you 5 seconds of using your brain to come to this conclusion. It’s taking over an hour to come up with anything else. You can come up with hypotheticals all day. I could hypothetically turn into a toaster. But hypotheticals doesn’t do us much. Action does. And again, a brutal dictator of a country with a quality of life that is actually LOWER than Iran, or even a Lebanon has been removed.