Shit, pretty sure he's on tape telling Netentyahu, that starting a war to cancel elections is a great idea that he wants to do.

He wants a regime change eventually, and so does the money behind him.

But what trump wants more, is anything that will cancel midterms and last long enough to cancel the next presidential too.

That's why he's doing this, holding onto political power is the golden goose. Not even trump is dumb enough to kill and eat the goose. As we get closer to elections, we'll see him pass on money if it means holding onto power longer. But if midterms happen and he loses the House, that's a lot of lost power, which means less money from bribes/grifts.

He kept saying "we are going to be taking money out".

Well if you’re a fascist who doesn’t care about blending of the state with capital then it’s a pretty strong argument.

They did sign contracts, let American companies build a bunch of infrastructure, then seized it at gunpoint.

Iran, Iraq, etc done similar things, but Venezuela is pretty unique in that it lost the international legal cases and still refused to pay retribution.

Even trump, for once, said the truth out loud

We're going to have our very large United States oil companies (...) go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure (...) Let's start making money

At least they've stopped writing "mic drop" for this shit. Politician says thing about other politician; no action taken

No, you see, SLAM is actually an acronym.

Speaks Loudly About Matters.

Suddenly Lambasts Apparent Misconduct.

Is sour crude oil only a little sour, or like… really sour?

Yes pretty much what I wrote here, except I achieved getting over 40 downvotes.

https://lemmy.world/post/41116646

A special military operation to overthrow a government that takes less than 3 days, only a few hours to be precise..... Must be hard to see others achieve that when you are not even close to that at day nr. 1,409.

At no point in Russia's modern history have they had any problem whatsoever with being hypocrites.

That's because Russia and Venezuela are allies. Got to say something, even if it's for pretend.

So Putin's starting to turn against the US?

Spiderman pointing at Spiderman.

venezuela is a putin ally, he did the same for iran too, remember when iran was bombed israel, putin immediately used his troll farms to attack trump.

I thought Putin and Trump were BFFs. This was the real story imo

What about the Venezuelan casualties? I would not want to be within 500 m of those explosions. If the shrapnel does not get you, the shockwave will tear apart your diaphragm.

Yeah like, I'll friggin take it, all the power to that fierce woman! Maybe she can't directly fix everything, but you're right, people discount the fact that her outspoken truth to power can embolden dissent.

Eventually that fury has the power to change minds, and some of those minds can directly do something about this. (Especially if their constituents pressure them enough and don't give them any wiggle room.)

I think most of us realize that she is a token FDR New Deal Democrat, with no actual power. She's like a release valve for citizens to cheer for. SHE GETS IT, etc.

There are always a few, they provide cover for big money leadership like Schumer (who is NOT a new deal democrat, he's like a 90s Republican)

Russia

I find it interesting that they are very weak in a traditional military sense, but their intelligence, posturing and political power is stupidly effective.

It’s like they learned that information is the new warfare and trained on that while letting their traditional forces fall apart.

Damn I read the title and thought she entered the ring with a steel chair

I read them in my wrestling announcer voice.

Journalists are the number 1 cause of semantic bleaching it seems

She sent a strong signal?

Venezuela VP?

"I want to make it very clear that I am slamming this operation. Make sure to put that in the headline!"

You hear that everybody? She slammed it. It's been slammed. It's ok, no need to panic, everybody knows everything's fine as long as it gets slammed. No need for any further action here; it's been slammed.

Slam.

Why do you think the opposition keeps shitting the bed in the face of a weak President, every election cycle?

Venezuelans may wrangle at Maduro's mediocrity, but they're utterly repulsed by the fascist freaks that occupy the right wing

The alternate take I've heard is to take Venezuela out of the oil market entierly thus driving up the price and propping up Russias economy for a bit longer.

Same here, Cadet Bone Spurs wanted to attack Venezuela in 2017 and your last paragraph is correct too.