Trump said that Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, would help the United States run Venezuela. She quickly said the opposite.

Trump said Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and would act as a partner in letting the United States run the country.

“She’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” he said.

Less than two hours later, Ms. Rodríguez — who was Nicolás Maduro’s vice president — delivered a televised address to Venezuela that made clear she viewed the United States as an illegal invader that must be rejected.

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    Its funny, many years ago I had a friend that taught English in south Korea for a bit and got to talk with a bunch of people that also did so one night. It sticks with me today that almost everyone who taught in Vietnam said it was hands down the best place with the best people to do that line of work. One woman told me about how there is not a lot of money but in the small village (I have no idea how big that actually is since I was also told that a place of 100k people in China was also a “village”) she was treated like one of their own and even had a small parade when she left. She also taught in Japan, Indo and South Korea but always tried to get more work in Vietnam even though they pay the least.

    The very idea that somehow the nation with most positive opinion in southeast Asia (maybe even all of Asia) is also being off offhandedly insulted by what I would assume is an american in a tone deaf, evidence free and super easy to disprove statement kinda makes me chuckle. The Vietnamese are fine, no thanks to the us, and from what I know of the history using the war as an example of “If you think you’re going to improve things by killing lots of people you’re a moron.” is just dang funny.

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      also VIETNAM is pretty pro-usa so to speak. economically, unlike china which has a hate/love relationship. its only the Vietnamese imimgrants,older who are all wierd they are hard right folks in the us because they hated vietnam during the war.

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        Eh, I would not know about the ones in the us as I have never talked to any and generally don’t try and look for american opinions (they show up without me doing anything anyway).

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      When was that? I was talking about the time after the Vietnam war. In recent years, things have been getting better there, obviously. Also, one person having a positive experience doesn’t make the place a utopia.

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        Everyone I have spoken to who has been there have said nice things.

        Edit: The same can not be said of China, or the us.

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          What bad things do people who went to China say? The only negative I have is the state of the bathrooms and the great firewall.

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            Food quality, endless scams, economic options for people, government corruption (more so the local governments) and from a woman I went to collage with; a bleak situation as a woman overall (however this may have improved).

            These where comments from people who lived there (some born there) and that’s not even mentioning the government threats to ex pats that happen.

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              Huh, I guess the government seriously cracked down on the first 3 before I got there. I did hear complaints about the difficulty getting a job.

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                The food thing was mostly localized and people who did not look Chinese had more issues, most people I know that lived in China got very sick at least once. Not saying the food is bad or anything, I think it is more a matter of scamming people. The scamming is really bad in some parts but not bad in others and not a problem unique to China. And the economic option issues is more about not having good places to invest money in China, and that makes sense since I am talking mostly to people who have left for that reason.

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        what you said, what happened to the vietnamese people after the war, yea it wasnt good at first because they got out of a war. but overtime they recovered economically and improved relationships with the west, especially USA. your initial comment they suffered alot, well duh its after the war thats why they fled the regime. overtime it has gotten alot better, you seem to think they ended up destitute like North korea for some reason.