How can one country declare another country's airspace closed?
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He said it in a truth social post, which has all of the legal standing of a juicy fart
No no no, he DECLARED it! That's as good as a law or something right?
Venezuela is a developing country, has the world's largest known oil reserves, and has been one of the world's leading exporters of oil.
Well that explains it
Obvious imperialist warmongering is obvious.
My aunties all live there. Are they all going to die in a hellfire attack?
No. They might get shot by occupation forces instead.
Given they are over 80 and blind I doubt that.
"You can't just say the airspace above Venezuela is closed"
"I didn't say it, I declared it"
Trump, in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”
He said "consider". How thoughtful of him to start a WAR on social media AND without congressional approval.
That's exactly how you'd expect him to do so.
It's getting hard to predict the stupidity lately.
Always go low. No matter how bad it is, there is always stupider.
We're leading a ground invasion of the north pole!
Unfortunately the US has allowed president's to effectively start wars since the 1973 War Powers Resolution Act. It allows any US president to engage in a conflict for up to 60 days without congressional approval.
60 days is a long fucking time, once the military is involved congress knows it can't just pull out of a country. So we always stay
Nothing like a good ole fashion invasion of an oil producing country to lift holiday spirits /s

they’re trying to build a prison
FOR YOU AND ME TO LIVE IN!
Fuuuuuuckkkk I miss SOAD, I miss those bands that really had a message back then, the songs that would rile you up, make you think, make you realize... RATM!
What would be a modern version of this?
Protest music is still ongoing, if not stronger than ever. Hell, even Morello is politically active, look at his merch line
Grandson - Self Immolation (honestly this whole album is bomb)
Pussy Riot - Putin's Ashes (2023)
DJ Shadow + RTJ - Nobody Speak (2016) (bit older but just as relevant)
Pussy Riot - Make America Great Again (2016)
Art is and will forever be a form of protest
Run the jewels.
Man, if only the music itself could appeal to me. Their lyrics are ok.
instead of a war on poverty
we've got a war on drugs
so the police can bother me
Does he think that's up to him?
Who is gonna stop him?
Congress and SCOTUS will pat his head and tell him he is a good boy.
No other country or combination of countries can stop the US military if it backs him. Honestly I don't see anything stopping him except the US military at this point and that would be extremely improbable.
We have time on our side. I fully expect him to die before the term is up to some health complication. He's rather old
Airlines should just ignore Trump. The only way he can enforce this is by shooting down civilian airliners.
Exactly. Even trump isn't stupid enough to start downing national carriers full of civilians
The entire airspace in the Caribbean in front of and above Caracas has been saturated with ratio interference radiation for days now. The few planes still flying are having trouble with comms, GPS and radio referenced navigation. There are other ways to enforce this crap without shooting rockets. It's a shit show.
You don't have jurisdiction over what another country does, Pedo. How are people not complaining more about what this rapist is doing here??? Attacking another country--- this is Russian shit. He thinks because his master can try to shit on its neighbors that he can too!
Are we really going to let this fucking lunatic lead the US into an insane war?
Enough is enough. He's an existential threat not just to the US but to the entire world. He needs to be removed from office, immediately.
Anything including a unnecessary war to distract from the Epstein files, the fact Trump's a rapist and pedophile, inflation, tariffs, unemployment, and recession.

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