“The Departments of State and War have negotiated a historic opportunity to secure US majority control of more than 65bn barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela at zero taxpayer cost,” a Pentagon spokesperson said.

That is maybe one of the dumbest sentences I have ever read.

I can't comprehend not realizing if you actually think like this that you need to hide it from other people at least superficially.

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[–] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

"Negotiated" - and all it took was a bit of bombing and shooting and kidnapping and forced regime change and oil theft. It's like the school bully announcing they've negotiated a deal whereby the nerds will give them their lunch money.

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