Sleep deprivation is serious business. This guy is easily doing more direct action than 99% of the protestors (no hate on them).
What alternative strategies are you suggesting? Picking up a gun and forming a militia? Or waiting for the mid-terms vote ICE agents out of office?
You were overqualified for the position if they're making you go through that amount of bullshit.
iirc Maduro was already in negotiations to surrender himself to Trump as a part of some deal that would lift the sanctions. But the negotiations took too long for Trump.
Trump threatens Jorge Rodriguez with more blatant terrorism unless he privatizes the world's largest oil supply. If the new admin capitulates, Trump calls that a win. He gets the oil and the spectacle without losing a single american troop. The US will lose respect from its allies - again - but they never do shit about it. iTs AmErICa FiRsT. america
Rubio and the Cuba lobby are furious though. They are serious about regime change. The option that gets the most people killed.
Colombia is more vulnerable but it hasn't developed a lobby like Venezuela and Cuba have.
Sheinbaum in Mexico and Lula in Brazil are later in the itinerary but they're going to be more difficult. Especially Brazil now that Bolsonaro is in jail.
If Trump felt beholden to congress, he would not have gotten approval. He would have had to spend years spreading propaganda and trying to build up a case, like Bush did. All that effort might have prevented him from doing it at all.
Didn't stop Bush did it?
More importantly, doing this is trying to peel off people who might waver because Maduro is unsympathetic
Saddam was even less sympathetic but the Iraq war was still wrong. Most of the US understands that. It's bipartisan amongst the populace at this point. Call it Jungle Iraq. Your son is going to die for oil... again. That'll alarm people way more than the bazillionth instance of presidential over-reach.
Protests are shouting matches. We're not talking about general discussion. Do you censor yourself in general discussion because conservatives play gotcha games with you? How is that honest communication?
Maybe that's what they intended but I've noticed a trend of liberals immediately triangulating themselves into this "least-controversial" legalistic take because they don't want to talk about Maduro. A stalinist waving a PSUV flag is more helpful at that point.
I'm not accusing you in particular of this or OP for that matter.
Why are you playing by conservative gotcha games then? Just say what you believe and say it as loud as you can. It is indeed a shouting match, not a debate.
I literally said I know you oppose the action. Put that on the sign, its the most important thing.
Liberals, please stop with leading with the legal minutiae. Stop pretending that you would've been fine with this if only Trump had congressional approval. You know it's just about oil and imperialism. Trump literally spelt it out for you. Stop censoring yourself because you think its "strategic". Its not.
Venezuelan Ahmed Chalabi promises to privatize everything for foreign "investment".