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[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 123 points 4 months ago

This sets an alarming precedent where a sitting us president can kidnap the acting head of another country (elected or not) which is an act of war, without the us being at war or having authorization from congress.

[-] lennee@lemmy.world 79 points 4 months ago

see the logic is only the US can, anybody else cant even arrest netanyahu when he flies over their airspace cuz for some reason that would also be an act of war towards the US

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You seem to not understand the term precedent. Neither is that a new thing to do for the US nor is it actually requiring congress authorisation. They gave up that power long ago and now don't need to autorise anything for up to 90 days.

Also the US has not declared war once since WW2... They actually set the precedent for "military operations" and -again- not recently either.

[-] te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 79 points 4 months ago
[-] YashaB@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

It's going to be worse than 2025..

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

Americans did nothing and things got worse. Who could have foreseen this?

[-] prole 3 points 4 months ago

So alcoholism it is.

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 42 points 4 months ago

Guys, it's fine. Remember? Trump has the FIFA peace price.

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 16 points 4 months ago

Where's the problem? No winner of the FIFA peace price has started less and ended more wars than Trump. 😉

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[-] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I'm starting to thing the Fifa Peace Prize may not actually mean very much...

[-] beatnixxx@fedia.io 40 points 4 months ago

so you're telling me the "peace president" started another war? Unpossible. /s

[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

He's gonna go to war in Venezuela to stop people from talking about him in the epstein files

[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

No, he did it for money. USA is a agressor.

[-] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago
[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I like that line of thinking as much as the next guy, but it strikes me as wildly misguided that the US politics has reduced to that. Like, I get the symbolic aspects of the Epstein's files for politics, but still think it is mindless engagement.

An indisputably genuine video of Trump raping a literal toddler could be released tomorrow and nothing would change. Their support base and the gears of power are already too deeply entwined to his personality. No amount of public rage or national indignation changes governments.

[-] YashaB@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Maduro is just as bad as Trump or Putin. Still it sets a very bad precedent when the US starts acting like Russia. Who will be next?

[-] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

It doesn't matter how bad Maduro is, this is wrong and illegal. Period.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Idk I think if he was literally Hitler or worse it could be justified.

But he wasn't and isn't, so it's for sure wrong and unjustified.

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[-] Heikki2@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Just follow the unexploited oil reserves

[-] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Mexico, according to Trump.

I'm skeptical though, since Mexico doesn't famously have huge reserves of oil. Still, he does really hate brown people, so that might be enough.

[-] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Canada, Mexico.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It's not like we this is the USAs first rodeo

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[-] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 17 points 4 months ago

Okay now do Putin. I'll wait....

[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

Oh no. Ukraine attacked his house and that crossed a serious line.

There are rules of decency in this world

[-] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

“Attacked.”

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[-] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

They will kidnap Zelensky before Putin.

[-] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 17 points 4 months ago

Looks like the USA managed to buy the local army or something. Well, it went unexpectedly smoothly. Maduro really didn't look like the elected president. Not sure if USA puppet would be better though...

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 18 points 4 months ago

Not sure if USA puppet would be better though...

Depends on how much money you have invested in American oil companies

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

He wasn't elected, he just denied the results of the election

[-] Keilik@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

That’s usually the kind of thing that gets you on trumps good side though

[-] fistac0rpse@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago

I read that the US was offering a $50 million bounty for anyone who provided info that led to his arrest

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

All eyes on Taiwan next…

[-] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

ALL of these mother fuckers are going to be tried, convicted, and sentenced.

[-] halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

Respectfully, I think you mean "should be". Nothing has happened to make me believe that any of these fuckers will be held accountable for their bullshit.

[-] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

That's cute. They won't.

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[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago
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