Donald Trump has reportedly ended all diplomatic outreach to Venezuela, instructing envoy Richard Grenell to cease all efforts as he grows frustrated with authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro’s reluctance to relinquish power.
Trump is also frustrated that Maduro keeps rejecting any ties with drug cartels, The New York Times reported. Officials told the outlet that the administration has drawn up multiple military plans for an eventual escalation.
He’s so fucking stupid. And now that he’s demented, we’re seeing the unfiltered reactions.
How weak the entire world must know the United States is right now.
Of course all of this was orchestrated since the beginning. It was just a show for the people. The administration was already decided on military intervention.
Now, for the reasons. I can think of some, though I can be wrong of course:
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A way to increase Trump’s popularity ratings. A strong leader defending the US that are threatened by drugs.
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Oil. Venezuela is well know for its oil deposits. And the oil extraction is nationalized there.
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Trump’s opinion of Putin has been falling. Attacking one of Russia’s ally might be a way to attack him.
I can agree with everything but the last point. There is no rift between Trump and Putin unless you are talking about some clown show WWE antics good cop bad cop garbage propaganda.
War… if we are “at war” elections cant happen. See Ukraine.
How can you possibly say we should have elections but not Ukraine?
See no elections in 26 or 28. And if you disagree it is wrong thought you commie trans DEI illegal immigrant pronoun liberal. You are aligned with our enemy and have been awarded a fun fishing trip on this boat. Please ignore the drones with missles above they are for your safety.
No, we have a different constitution. The Ukrainian constitution suspends election during war, but ours does not. There are no provisions for suspending elections in our constitution at all. Do not spread the lies of the fascists.
Of course, delaying elections. How could I have forgotten? This is likely the main reason for Trump.
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You literally orchestrated an insurrection because of your “reluctance to relinquish power”.
It’s OK if you’re also a nonce.
“He won’t quit even though i want him to waaaaaah” fuckin loser of a president we got here
Why would they want to deal with you, you just had a bunch of their people murdered! Diplomatic relations my ass. The fact that you had military plans already drawn up tells me you aren’t disappointed in the breakdown of communication, you were hoping they would come back with aggression to make the plans easier to justify to your moneybags.
cough Epstein List cough
Bro, sure Maduro is an authoritarian leader who came to power in suspicious circumstances, but you’re very visibly setting yourself up for the same.
Why does Mr. “No New Wars” care so much?
Venezuela must have a resource that Trump or one of his donors wants. Google “banana wars”.
Don’t they have a pretty sizeable oil patch? I know it’s really dirty oil, but one of the countries down that way has a huge oil field.
Venezuela’s petroleum deposits are oil sands, very deep underground under old growth rainforest. Oil sands are mined, not pumped like conventional oil, so it would require ripping up all that old growth rainforest so that they can start digging. For that reason Venezuela’s oil patch is one of the last on earth that’s mostly untapped, and you know the American government is drooling at the idea of getting their hands on it.
Here’s what mining oil sands looks like in Alberta (Canada) as a visualizer:
Uh oh Donnie, God doesn’t like that too much, better rethink your choices otherwise you may not be getting into heaven with that golden toilet
he grows frustrated with authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro’s reluctance to relinquish power.
Pot, meet kettle.
Maybe we should blow up more civilians to set …uhhhh… an example?
No no, now this is when someone says there are WMDs in Venezuela.
Just having oil is no longer sufficient as a reason for an American invasion?
So, militarily-enforced “regime-change” is going to happen in Venezuela, for Trump’s regime’s satisfaction.
But will militarily-enforced “regime-change” be tolerated when Trump proves “reluctant” to relinquish power, when he disallows the 2028 elections?
Of course not!
2-facedness is shameless, nowadays.
Too bad it’s on humankind to do the enforcing-of-correction: the cost is going to be … close to 99% of the human population, it looks like, throughout the rest of this century, given how bad the balance-of-power ( between corruption vs integrity ) is…
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99% gone or 100% gone: those look to be the only actual possibilities, for next-century, now: corruption’s eradicated integrity from sooo much of the world, that it really is the vast-majority position, now.
“Majority-rule” means integrity/justice cannot rule: the 2 “centers” are mutually-exclusive.
So long as herd-style majority-rule outranks integrity, then … integrity has no right to rule.
Integrity’s breaking corruption-majority from ruling, including oligarchy, dictatorship-backed-by-obedient-“votes”, etc, would be minority-but-upright rule, which is … prohibited, by majority-rule, isn’t it?
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Natural-selection’ll decide, & Universe’ll keep the accounting-books accurate.
Universe doesn’t “need” our species to live: our assumed entitlement has no power over universe, & it never had any.
If we won’t grow-up, then … our world’s remains will serve as a warning to others, of the consequences of indulging-in-toddler-mentality while having global-scale militaries.
Which is a socially-“valid” choice, obviously…
The herd-beasts who lie broken & dying at the bottom of a cliff they just stampeded off of … their “going along with the herd’s opinion” is every bit as valid as humankind’s doing the same thing.
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Yeah it is pretty fucked up. I want to throw up everytime I hear a conservative say the President has a mandate.
Last time I checked no one voted for Miller, a white supremacist, to be running the country. Didn’t we used to vet people to prevent this kind of shit.
What fucking mandate!? 90% of deported people don’t have a violent record. It was all big fat fucking lie so we can all live out Miller’s KKK fantasy.
Repeat after me, no one voted for this shit show. Stop blaming the victims and start messaging the fucking truth.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he does launch an invasion, or invasive action into Venezuela…
He can use the distraction to get people looking away from one of his new failures.Guess someone better go dig up Juan Guaido again…
Guaido ran off to Florida and is getting paid a fat salary from the “Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom” to give seminars nowadays. Curious that all of these “democratic freedom fighters” never stay around in their own country for long.
