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Just a reminder the Trump tried to organize a coup against Venezuela the last time he was in office (John Bolton, the national security advisor, said so in an interview)
It was a soft coup in the guise of that guy: Juan Guido.
He popped out of nowhere, months (maybe even a year) after Venezuela’s elections, with the US supporting him as the legitimate winner. And because the US does it, so do all the puppet European states.
It was really confusing episode to me at the time. Only when Bolton’s interview came out did it make sense to me.
Maduro was impeached and refused to step down. They didn’t need a coup, just to support the constitutional government.
I already knew this because Pete Kegseth included me in his Signal chat.
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There’s also oil in Guyana that America wants and Venezuela wants from Guyana, so Venezuela is bringing up an old claim to the Essiquibo region of Guyana to have access to the coast for oil. It’s always about oil. America already owned the politicians in Guyana and it’s a little harder to control Venezuela.
One more reason to hurry over to renewables
It’s frankly shocking to learn how many weak, servile cowards there are among the US’s top generals.
The lesson we learned from the korean war and the vietnam war was that sticking our nose too far into other peoples business is always a great decision. Civilian casualties and traumatized youth give the military industrial conplex a chubby, and the federal government loves its war buddy.
Goddamnit… Fuck Donald Trump
If he declares war, he can cancel the next election. Is that how that works?
He can’t declare war OR cancel elections.
Won’t stop him from doing both, though.
I thought there was something in the constitution that let the president suspend elections if the US is at war? If not, my bad, I must have misunderstood.
We’ve had lots of elections in time of war. The major conflicts of the 20th century that resulted in a military draft century (WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam) all had Presidential election. Hell, there was an election during the US Civil War.
You may be thinking of Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War?
Constitution, Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2:
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
Lincoln signed off on a law saying that the President could suspend the right under the same conditions.
Possibly, I can’t remember. It’s possible my brain is making stuff up.
No such thing.
TBH I think he’s just sending ships all over the world so nobody forgets that they’re his, like big toys. I wonder what it costs to run all of these fleets like this?
I love that the idiotic yanks are talking about the pedo files as if america needed that to fuck up another country.
I am afraid such a war unfortunately can’t change Trump’s regime.
Only if maduro wins.
Bringing peace, freedom, and democracy to a bunch of stinky people! U! S! A!
2026 is getting closer, so he’s got to start a war to delay the Senate midterms.
Apparently he used systematic-de-registration-of-Democrat-voters, to help swing the last election…
No need for war for 2026, with systematic-de-registration already in-play ( he even openly promised he would “wipe the blue-states off the map”, which is exactly what removing blue-votes does ).
War’d then be needed as a “lever” only for 2028.
That’s when he’ll declare war against Canada, -/+ 1y.
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Oil price needs a boost again?
