Yes, that is a fair parallel. The big difference is that US troops aren't occupying Venezuela - a lot of people seem to be acting as though they are - and so a lack of a plan is most likely to l… (View Post)

Not really. One of the big immediate problems in Iraq 2003 was that the invading forces created a huge power vacuum by telling all the police, etc, that the police force was simply abolished. In Vene… (View Post)

You have to remember that the primary system makes the US implementation of FPTP a two-stage process. First you have a public battle on each side for which version of left or right you want, and then… (View Post)

The other thing about Starmer's 2024GE mandate that people overlook is how bad an election campaign he had. Before Sunak called the election Labour were standing on an average of about 45% in th… (View Post)

It's not really that surprising. He only received just over one-third of the vote, a really risible share of the vote, only 1.6pp higher than Corbyn received at the disastrous 2019GE, or 1pp hig… (View Post)