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Trump imposes harsh sanctions on Colombia for not accepting "repatriation" flights (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago

It's a response to make them do it. And it worked. They caved.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I just saw the news that Colombia gave in.

Trump is going all in. He's reverting to the 19th century way of strong arming other countries over petty things. He's reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Nothing wrong with throwing your weight around in this situation.

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