# I Pit Babale **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738 "2025-04-07T14:59:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 682
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738/682 "2026-01-03T23:04:42Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Would you say this is _bad_? Civilian casualties are always bad. > [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Or because Maduro’s bad, this is _okay_ and worth the civilian deaths? Civilian casualties are never “okay” nor are they “ok” or “OK”. Whether civilian casualties are justifiable since they were caused by appropriate use of military force against valid military targets is a separate question from the above displays of a 3rd grader’s grasp of geopolitics, I don’t know that enough details are available to make that call about Venezuela yet but I haven’t seen any evidence that there was unjustifiable force used against invalid targets. Whether attacking Maduro in this way at all was good idea remains to be seen. It seems like a much bigger gamble than I would have been comfortable with, were I in Trump’s shoes, but it went off pretty well in terms of execution, and it remains to be seen what geopolitical results are actually accomplished. What was your analysis of the situation like? Let’s see: > [@Fuck all you warmongering pieces of shit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-all-you-warmongering-pieces-of-shit/1019962/934): > > Now Venezuela. Dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. Gee, I wonder why I think you’re on the America Bad train to Tankieville… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738)._