The "no blood for oil" sign hits hard. I saw that when I was young and we invaded Iraq 🤮
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Wasn't his whole campaign based around isolationism? I think it's the one policy that pretty much everybody actually agreed with.
The US needs to stop getting involved in situations because it always ends badly. Always.
Of course it turns out he was lying about that too. Classic.
"Military intervention"? We're applying the Russian tactics of calling an act of war something different? "Special military operation" style. Right.
We all saw the slave markets that happened when gaddafi fell. Oil CEOs need to burn (ideally in some kind of legal process) for this. This kind of intervention always results in a corrupt colonial leader (best case) or an absolute power vacuum (worst case). Either way I'm sure that the number of people fleeing from venezuela are about to skyrocket.
Its money that would be better spent on healthcare imo. Oil companies are the most subsidized "private" businesses in existence.
Do you really really think this was done at the behest of oil CEOs? Hmm.
Yes and no. Did they rubber stamp this plan? Prob not. Have they been bitching to republicans about venezuela nationalizing their infrastructure for 20 years? Yes.
I mean look at cuba. The US has been after them for 70 years because it fucked up a bunch of mobster casino guys grand master plans. The US government will spend 20 dollars on petty business grievances from half a century ago before it pays a dollar helping like a mom in the US pay medical bill for having a baby today.
Edit: also this

Trump literally admitted to sharing the classified invasion plans with oil executives before it happened.
Way to go Americans, general strikes are the only thing that scares them. No one producing the goods they can exploit and lucrate from is the best way to scare those rich parasites and make them reconsider their infamous decisions.
The media will ignore them, and most people won't even realize they now live under a fascist regime.
But hey. Trump sure showed those Ghayze a thing or two.
Oh shit the americans actually are doing something about it
Well, some tiny fraction of americans, but I didn't expect even that
The protests in the summer were huge. These were last-minute.
Our corporate media censored them HARD. Largest protest in US history and it was reported underneath Kim Kardashian's underwear in the NYT. Not making it up.
Yeah it's not as if there have been near constant protests exactly like this about basically everything that's been happening.
They're not doing shit. They are home by 9pm and thats the end of it.
Lmao not really. Protests are part of the circus.
Anyone celebrating this has no grasp of U.S. history and the other times we've done this and how badly it went every time.
There are repercussions for invading a nation and abducting their leader (and then stealing their oil).
Discourse 5 years from now: Why are there so many Venezuelans trying to cross our southern border? No solution other than increasing immigration enforcement I guess.
I mean, it's good Maduro is gone, he was really bad for that country. Buuuut that's about it, being positive about all of this. This isn't the way to deal with it. The US has no right doing this (war crime). This isn't about what's best for Venezuela, it's about what's best for Trump his pockets. Maybe the US should think of dealing with it's own dictator first.
I can’t figure out if this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read, or if it’s satire.
Are you arguing that the EU shunning the US Dollar would not be a very powerful and effective strategy?
venezuelans largely celebrated his capture, and the right remains quiet on this issue. so only one party is doing this.
Be careful, apparently I got banned from lemmy.ml for mentioning that the friends I have living in Venezuela see Maduro and "his goons" gone (his words) as great news. The future though is not bright and the people are still very sceptical of Trumps motives. Obviously for us here in the US the writing is on the wall for anyone who's lived through Iraq.
The problem is "his goons" are not gone, only Maduro...
Yeah I guess. It's kids confusing what's happening there. They're being given so much information. Whether right or wrong.
It doesn't matter whether they're happy about it or not, it says a very dangerous precedent and shouldn't be allowed.
It shouldn't have been allowed in the past either but I wasn't alive then
Erupted is a really big leap. A few people with the usual signs is hardly a protest.
Jeeze yeah, clearly this wasn't good enough, I can't imagine why anyone bothered since clearly it doesn't matter. Didn't even care enough to print up pithy new signs or anything. Barely even pretending to care. Frankly how dare they, I'm just disgusted at their behavior!
I also went grocery shopping and brushed my teeth today, neither of which prevented me from attending the protests. Turns out sluts are capable of being politically and sexually active.
...What's your excuse?
A reference that's lost on me.
OH HUSH.
Did you hear it this time?
I can't find a record of us having ever interacted on Lemmy before, are you sure you have the right person?
What a convenient excuse. It would be a lot more convincing if your line about nashville had any meaning for me.
So... you don't know what it means either.
Hush.
lmfaoooo is that what this is about? Dude, I post nudes on the fediverse. I already use a VPN to help keep weirdos like you from doxxing me. No wonder it didn't mean anything if you were fishing for a reaction to the geoloc of an exit node.
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