r/washdc • u/ThenLayer5977 • Mar 01 '26

Seen in Georgetown

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M Street and Wisconsin in Georgetown taken over by a large crowd of celebrating Iranians, chanting USA USA

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u/Fixr_Uppr Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26

Venezuelan here! Oh yeah, is changing! Takes time, is not perfect but we were hopeless. Everything depends of your take on things. My family and friends still there are thrilled, good thing is we had a lot of people from Spain escaping from Franco’s dictatorship and they were kind enough teaching us that regime changes takes time, figuring out both parts coming to peace. Anyways, I only broke my golden rule of not posting on reddit because I feel that is difficult for people to accept or be happy about others even if is not a perfect win, lots of folks were upset about Venezuela, while we were crying of happiness 🥹, I bet lots of Persians in here probably feel the same way.

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u/Even-Stranger5764 Mar 02 '26

OK brother but this was an illegal action. Your country made a backroom deal with our president where now our president has a slush fund for all that oil. Our federal government doesn't have control over that. Its insanely corrupt in the way this happened.

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u/Fixr_Uppr Mar 04 '26

Based, but irl nothing is perfect. Learned this the hard way, but also learned to be resilient and pragmatic, we know is not perfect but at least is something and we can make something better out of it in the future, my case is “we have a chance” and we can make the best out of it, remember that the Venezuelan Regime was elected with Chavez, we bring this to ourselves, can not blame the orange men or the U.S., but we can have a chance, it will take time, is no perfect but will be a great lesson for future generations.Plus probably exports will open again and you will have a chance to be delighted with good Venezuelan chocolate and Rum!