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US conservatives have had a hate-boner for Venezuela forever, and they do have oil, so I wouldn’t say it’s entirely random. The timing, however, feels like they watched Wag the Dog and thought “well that sounds like a clever plan, but we can’t possibly fake a war, so let’s just start a real one.”
These people have zero actual morals or beliefs, they just take their marching orders like zombies and change their tune to whatever makes them good little soldiers. It would just be pathetic if it wasn’t such a severely traitorous and dangerous act to the country.
It's why it's impossible to have a serious debate with them about anything. They have zero "sincerely held beliefs" and all of their stated positions on anything are mercurial and subject to change based on whatever new narrative is passed down from the top.
They don't give a flying fuck about anything besides "their side winning".
From what I'm seeing regarding MAGA and its "plans," the best move is to not react at all and wait for MAGA to hurt itself in confusion.
J6 exemplified this. MAGA expected "Antifa," however they defined it, to show up and give them an excuse to raid the Capitol building and claim to be victims of those they were drooling over beating and killing. When none were there, they still went berserk and their plan failed.
See also the Portland "War Zone." No violent opposition showed up, and MAGA eventually withdrew when mocked with people in frog costumes.
Venezuela would be insane to respond militarily, so just not doing anything is costing the Trump administration millions in wasted fuel, personnel, etc. to seize a few oil tankers. There's no kickoff of hostilities for TrumpCo to claim as justification (however slim) for this latest nonsense they're trying to pull off.
It sucks we have to pay for it, but it's better than him getting the war he and his fascist advisors want.
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Seizing a random countries ships has to be one of the most bizarre moves this admin has made.
US conservatives have had a hate-boner for Venezuela forever, and they do have oil, so I wouldn’t say it’s entirely random. The timing, however, feels like they watched Wag the Dog and thought “well that sounds like a clever plan, but we can’t possibly fake a war, so let’s just start a real one.”
Yeah it feels like a distraction from the Epstein files, which btw hasn’t been fully released despite them being pressured by both Congress and House
These people have zero actual morals or beliefs, they just take their marching orders like zombies and change their tune to whatever makes them good little soldiers. It would just be pathetic if it wasn’t such a severely traitorous and dangerous act to the country.
we will have to give those ships back at some point.
Again, the world is moving AWAY from fossil fuels. Being oil hungry at this point in history is kinda stupid.
It's why it's impossible to have a serious debate with them about anything. They have zero "sincerely held beliefs" and all of their stated positions on anything are mercurial and subject to change based on whatever new narrative is passed down from the top.
They don't give a flying fuck about anything besides "their side winning".
From what I'm seeing regarding MAGA and its "plans," the best move is to not react at all and wait for MAGA to hurt itself in confusion.
J6 exemplified this. MAGA expected "Antifa," however they defined it, to show up and give them an excuse to raid the Capitol building and claim to be victims of those they were drooling over beating and killing. When none were there, they still went berserk and their plan failed.
See also the Portland "War Zone." No violent opposition showed up, and MAGA eventually withdrew when mocked with people in frog costumes.
Venezuela would be insane to respond militarily, so just not doing anything is costing the Trump administration millions in wasted fuel, personnel, etc. to seize a few oil tankers. There's no kickoff of hostilities for TrumpCo to claim as justification (however slim) for this latest nonsense they're trying to pull off.
It sucks we have to pay for it, but it's better than him getting the war he and his fascist advisors want.
I bet FIFA feels really awful about that peace prize they gave him. The optics would have been so much better if they timed their corruption better!
STOP SUPPORT RUSSIAN WAR AGAINST MY HOMELAND?! WTF YOU ALL HATE UKRAINE?! RUSSIA DESERVES HATE, NOT UKRAINE.
I support supporting Ukraine over the US acting like Russia by getting into a pointless wasteful war in Venezuela or trying to annex Greenland.