Venezuela has accused Donald Trump of making a “colonialist threat” after he said the airspace around the country should be considered closed.
The country’s foreign ministry called Trump’s comments “another extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people”.
The US does not legally have the authority to close another country’s airspace, but Trump’s online post could lead to travel uncertainty and deter airlines from operating there.
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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.
I’m ignorant of the culture and structure of these markets still.
Would the market have to set up a bet for this? Can you propose it? How would it work?
There’s Bookmakers, who are professionals responsible for estimating likelihood of events using maths
But they can become corrupted, or simply told “you’re not allowed to accept bets on this subject, ever, or lose your license”
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?
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?
no, that was Bolivia
Much thanks for the correction
Does the Swiss based Nestle want the water for their plastic bottles?
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?
I’m sure you’ll figure it out when they start ‘finding drugs’ on their domestic enemies.
Agreed. And why not just intercept the boats too? More proof that it wasn’t about the drugs.
They’re trying to put all the fish in one barrel. They’re doing a similar tactic with trans people in the US by fucking with passports
Why wouldn’t they just intercept them at the runway
Gotta justify $850 billion military budget somehow, plus Donny and Petey get a hate boner blowing up brown people
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.
Oh, Mr Nobel peace prize is just grouchy.
China closes the airspace over Taiwan
Has a different meaning to everyone when you change the country names
Why? Venezuela is not a portion of the USA. This is straight US invasion. Like Zionists inventing “Israel” and invading Palestine.
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.
Just wait 'til Trump sets his eyes on Colombia and Panama. There’s a reason he’s unilaterally renamed that gulf…
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.
Every single fucking MAGAt, including Barron, should be lining up at the US Army recruiting offices signing up for 11 Bravo.
It’s not a colonialist threat. It’s effectively an act of war.
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.
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.
