When Trump told the world that if Iran were to start shooting protesters the US would be ready to respond. Locked and loaded were his words. At the time, everyone was like sure Trump whatever. I bet the Iranians and certain others (Mexican cartels, etc) might be rethinking that in light of current events.
The same Trump who has himself expressed a fondness for the idea of shooting protesters?
It sounds like if you are an American, you may have some soul searching to do tonight
if doesn't fit into some war or legal theory or overarching foreign policy approach, these sorts of things would be kidnapping or murder. you don't just get to go around deposing or killing other countries' leaders or taking over their country. even when they are horrible people.
because it would unleash a horrible free for all where anyone feels free to invade their neighbors, take out their leaders, send in the special forces.
you're the same folks who flip out over people taking potshots at trump or shooting charlie kirk.
you're the same folks who decided heads of state are immune from criminal charges related to doing their job.
This is what so many Americans do not understand.
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When Trump told the world that if Iran were to start shooting protesters the US would be ready to respond. Locked and loaded were his words. At the time, everyone was like sure Trump whatever. I bet the Iranians and certain others (Mexican cartels, etc) might be rethinking that in light of current events.
Iran has cards to play, Maduro didn't. Despite Iran being weakened by the defeat of its proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran can still disrupt global oil supplies by attacking refineries in Saudi Arabia and mining the straits of Homuz.
It sounds like if you are an American, you may have some soul searching to do tonight
if doesn't fit into some war or legal theory or overarching foreign policy approach, these sorts of things would be kidnapping or murder. you don't just get to go around deposing or killing other countries' leaders or taking over their country. even when they are horrible people.
because it would unleash a horrible free for all where anyone feels free to invade their neighbors, take out their leaders, send in the special forces.
The world is already a free for all. International law is fake.
Yet another country's oil being stolen by the modern pirate country
Sanctions are not to be enforced simply because you don't like the regime. The rest of world doesn't like the US regime either.
Bombing ships, whether dubiously carrying drugs or not, is murder. If it was about drugs you would start with Mexico right next door.
Seizing tankers of oil is theft
Invasion of a country to abduct a leader to steal oil is unlawful
Yet the western world, except South Africa , is quiet, all queing up to bend at Treump's knee so he can buy their 30 pieces of silver.
Putin and Xi will get more aggressive. Xi in particular laughing at the amount of force required to abduct a President of a poor country. He is rapidly getting you covered.
The US will capture Russian-made weapons from Venezuela, study them and relay the info back to Ukraine. Russia is f**ked. USA wins again, communists lose, nobody cares what South Africa thinks
Venezuelans gathered outside El Arepazo in Doral, calling the moment historic after President Trump said Nicolas Maduro was captured and removed from Venezuela.
In a telephone interview this morning with The Atlantic, President Donald J. Trump issued a threat against Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez, saying that, “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” adding that he would not stand for Rodríguez’s “defiant rejection” of military intervention by the United States. Additionally, during the interview, President Trump reaffirmed that Venezuela may not be the last country subject to American intervention, or even that it would remain isolated to Latin America, clearly stating, “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” while describing the island which is a part of Denmark, a close-ally and member of NATO, as “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.”
As a former US military officer, one thing that initially puzzled me was why the US would mount such a spectacular assault to capture Maduro. It expended millions of dollars and put hundreds of US military lives at risk when a drone could have erased Maduro from existence at far less cost and risk. Then, I realized the assault was to show others... Putin, North Korea, other nations, etc... what the US military CAN do... that the United States WILL take the risk to do what the President feels needs to be done.
If Delcy Rodriguez doesn't allow open elections, a drone will reduce her to bits and pieces. She knows that. Every despot in the world now knows that the threat of US intervention is not empty words. It's an absolute certainty that her whereabouts are being actively tracked and mission planning has already been done to deliver that drone if deemed necessary.
You can agree or emphatically disagree with the assault and capture of Maduro, but the despots of the world now know that the world is a different place than it was last week.
In a telephone interview this morning with The Atlantic, President Donald J. Trump issued a threat against Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez, saying that, “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” adding that he would not stand for Rodríguez’s “defiant rejection” of military intervention by the United States. Additionally, during the interview, President Trump reaffirmed that Venezuela may not be the last country subject to American intervention, or even that it would remain isolated to Latin America, clearly stating, “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” while describing the island which is a part of Denmark, a close-ally and member of NATO, as “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.”
As a former US military officer, one thing that initially puzzled me was why the US would mount such a spectacular assault to capture Maduro. It expended millions of dollars and put hundreds of US military lives at risk when a drone could have erased Maduro from existence at far less cost and risk. Then, I realized the assault was to show others... Putin, North Korea, other nations, etc... what the US military CAN do...
How ridiculous. AS if US could pull something like this off in Russia!
As a former US military officer, one thing that initially puzzled me was why the US would mount such a spectacular assault to capture Maduro. It expended millions of dollars and put hundreds of US military lives at risk when a drone could have erased Maduro from existence at far less cost and risk. Then, I realized the assault was to show others... Putin, North Korea, other nations, etc... what the US military CAN do... that the United States WILL take the risk to do what the President feels needs to be done.
If Delcy Rodriguez doesn't allow open elections, a drone will reduce her to bits and pieces. She knows that. Every despot in the world now knows that the threat of US intervention is not empty words. It's an absolute certainty that her whereabouts are being actively tracked and mission planning has already been done to deliver that drone if deemed necessary.
You can agree or emphatically disagree with the assault and capture of Maduro, but the despots of the world now know that the world is a different place than it was last week.
As noted earlier in this thread, the Trump administration plainly stated its foreign policy objectives a few weeks ago and is now putting those words into action.
In a telephone interview this morning with The Atlantic, President Donald J. Trump issued a threat against Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez, saying that, “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” adding that he would not stand for Rodríguez’s “defiant rejection” of military intervention by the United States. Additionally, during the interview, President Trump reaffirmed that Venezuela may not be the last country subject to American intervention, or even that it would remain isolated to Latin America, clearly stating, “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” while describing the island which is a part of Denmark, a close-ally and member of NATO, as “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.”
As a former US military officer, one thing that initially puzzled me was why the US would mount such a spectacular assault to capture Maduro. It expended millions of dollars and put hundreds of US military lives at risk when a drone could have erased Maduro from existence at far less cost and risk. Then, I realized the assault was to show others... Putin, North Korea, other nations, etc... what the US military CAN do... that the United States WILL take the risk to do what the President feels needs to be done.
If Delcy Rodriguez doesn't allow open elections, a drone will reduce her to bits and pieces. She knows that. Every despot in the world now knows that the threat of US intervention is not empty words. It's an absolute certainty that her whereabouts are being actively tracked and mission planning has already been done to deliver that drone if deemed necessary.
You can agree or emphatically disagree with the assault and capture of Maduro, but the despots of the world now know that the world is a different place than it was last week.
the f are you talking about? No one in the US government is talking about having 'open elections' in V. That's not the goal here - we haven't even put a veneer of democracy onto this. There is a very light varnish of the war on drugs, but only a little.
It's simply about oil. The US governments says that. Don't put words in their mouths. it's oil.
the test of this:
a V opposition party got 75% of the vote in the last V election. There was no consideration of putting it in charge. Instead, Trump put in charge an authoritarian because he likes big tribal chiefs, not democratically controlled heads of state.
About oil? Maybe. But for sure it is about signalling that the US Prezicriminal can do whatever he wants, in his neighborhood. And so other countries with dominant military power can also do whatever they want in their regions. But ALSO, Maduro repeatedly mocked tRump by dancing on Tiktok. Pathetic and immature Donald the malignant narcissist hates being mocked.
Just when the socialist got the inflation rate down to 682%
How original - the richest people in the history of the world have succeeded in convincing you that capitalism = good, socialism = bad so that they can continue to steal our tax dollars and use our military to carry out the biddings of the largest handful of companies in our country.
Just when the socialist got the inflation rate down to 682%
How original - the richest people in the history of the world have succeeded in convincing you that capitalism = good, socialism = bad so that they can continue to steal our tax dollars and use our military to carry out the biddings of the largest handful of companies in our country.
dude, anyone who can read a history textbook should know that socialism is bad.
How original - the richest people in the history of the world have succeeded in convincing you that capitalism = good, socialism = bad so that they can continue to steal our tax dollars and use our military to carry out the biddings of the largest handful of companies in our country.
dude, anyone who can read a history textbook should know that socialism is bad.
American history books, presumably? Socialism works. Corruption exists in every system.
