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It's not a colonialist threat. It's effectively an act of war.
I'm hoping that the chain-of-command is so broken because of the bumblefucks in charge at the top that Venezuela actually gets some good licks in ala Ukraine to Russia.
I know its doubtful, but a man can dream.
Russia conducts special military operations, while the US is fighting terrorism. It's all the same. Except our media outlets - in the case of my country, mostly American - will only speak about one of the two. Let's do our best to spread the word more or less evenly.
All empires will fall. They have to. Otherwise there's no future for humanity.
Just wait 'til Trump sets his eyes on Colombia and Panama. There's a reason he's unilaterally renamed that gulf...
I mean it's basically just declaring war. It's the US acting unilaterally to attack a foreign nation for no reason at all. Granted that's nothing new, but at least with Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush got permission from Congress through the Iraq Resolution (and the AUMF Against Terrorists Act in Afghanistan's case) before he actually invaded. I get the feeling Trump isn't even going to ask, he's just going to attack Venezuela, get dragged into a war, and die.
Then again, Obama attacked Libya without congressional approval, and while Congress could have done something about it, they didn't.
why not do something useful like ATTACK RUSSIA!
fucking traitors.
Fuck this nazi shit country of the united christofascist goat fucking america
Maybe we could liberate a certain modeling agency based there and nothing else. Besides, I'm sure the women in this country would rejoice if that were to happen. ;-)
Every single fucking MAGAt, including Barron, should be lining up at the US Army recruiting offices signing up for 11 Bravo.
And every single liberal should be protesting this in all the ways they've been saying Russian civilians ought to.
Don’t worry everyone. Some democrat will post a very safe and polite tweet soon.
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Thr anti-war candidate, according to the nyt and wapo opinion sections
War = Peace
He's desperate to use anything he can to declare martial law, either by triggering mass anti-war protests or simply using the war as an excuse to suspend elections.
If I were you, I would get out of Venezuela! - Our President.
Then shuts down their airspace and starts blowing up boats.
No escape from the christofascist murderers.
It Is a colonialist threat
Oh, Mr Nobel peace prize is just grouchy.
Mrs. Nobel peace prize is inviting him in with open arms, so he might as well get the next one
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Just so it's clear, Venezuela has ample oil, and holds one of the world's top ten supplies of fresh water.
Didn't they also heavily develop a lithium extraction industry in the last decade or so?
Does the Swiss based Nestle want the water for their plastic bottles?
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The post above this was:
As Epstein files release looms, questions abound on what happens next: ‘Possibilities are endless’
he using nixons method, go to war with drugs/vietnam, in order distract from his political problems, its a time honored tradition amongst conservatives.
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If the prediction markets weren't all owned by Trump and his cronies I would bet that boots go on the ground whatever day they are supposed to turn over the files.
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I’m old enough to remember when trump would pretend to be opposed to foreign military adventures. He literally built his political career on shitting on the neocons that launched us into illegal wars like what we did in Iraq.
Remember when he was against running for president and even joining the political scene entirely?
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Iraq War: Arepas Edition
China closes the airspace over Taiwan
Has a different meaning to everyone when you change the country names
I don't think it does.
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What's even the thought there, you shot boats claiming they had drugs on them, are they claiming every plane is also carrying drugs? Why wouldn't they just intercept them at the runway in the U.S. to sieze the drugs if any of it was drugs coming to the U.S. supposedly?
They have answered that question and they said that "the drugs" in those planes is still in transit between other countries. So the planes and boats are not directly going to the US but indirectly.
Allegedly.
He's showing he's trying to be a real threat. Now they're sending in the military to scare Venezuela into a good deal for resources or else.
It won't work. Internally, Congress is already calling out the illegality of attacking the boats. Congress won't allow a war and has already figured this out enough to tell the military to not follow illegal orders. It's still a sticky situation, but Venezuela's best move is to warn people and wait it out.
Precursor to an invasion. It’s basically a warning to the rest of the world: all flights going to, from, or through Venezuelan air space would do well to divert around it because soon that air space is going to be a war zone.
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what the fuck
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