All this just to keep Epstein out of the news...
In all seriousness though, what in the ever-loving fuck
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Epstein files, yes, but also don't forget the oil.
So... Tell me about the oil. I hear the cancellation of green projects and the forced operation of coal plants. But the barrel price is way down. Are they inept at cornering the fossil fuel industry? What's happening?
The us refineries in the south only refine tar oil like Venezuela and Canada’s.
They’re doing this so they don’t have to do massive retrofits. It’s literally corporate interests.
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China did really well with renewable, and we didnt. So we double down on oil...
But what's the endgame? Dump a lot of oil on the market, crash the price, devastate the US oil industry?
I don't believe these guys have an endgame. They're ignoring the crash and burn as someone else's problem since they're all old as hell, or are sure the money they pilfered will allow them to ride out the wave of devestation.
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American Pedophile President Illegally Deposes Venezuelan Leader in Violent Strike to Distract From Epstein File Release
Does this mean some other country can abduct Trump now?
Please take him, I beg you.
I had a flash of hope but, "The Ransom of Red Chief." https://classicshorts.com/stories/redchief.html
Who might want him?
This is so wild, not even for a second could I see this coming.
So, what's next? They're gonna put him in jail???
They had to pardon the other drug snuggling dictator so they had room for the new one.
Teehee...drug snuggling
They’re so cozy.. can’t be helped!
Don't forget the foreplay before putting the drugs inside you.
This is so wild, not even for a second could I see this coming.
The US fucking about in South America and its political stability? It's been a primary hobby of the US since the beginning. We just got distracted by 9/11 and took a break for a bit.
yeah, it's not involvement that's surprising the action.
A phony military campaign because Trump raped children.
A dog wags its tail because the dog is smarter than its tail. If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog.
Pretty much. There's a live indictment in New York on drug and weapons charges, from 2020. It's not clear yet if they're going to prosecute that one, or a different one.
They're going to rely on the Noriega precedent to justify this.
Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States.
How can they charge him with weapons possession that happened in a different country? Is the US saying they can just prosecute anyone on the planet for having weapons? I also assume Maduro didn't literally own machineguns and destructive devices, the Venezuelan military does. So does that mean they are prosecuting a head of state for the fact that their army has machineguns and explosives? WTF
Edit: Would be hilarious if they lose the trial, the current regime doesn't have a great record on prosecuting people.
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Come on! It's still a righful democracy! He will be promised a fair trial before committing suicide.
Next? Bomb Iran and seize Greenland.
he might die on the ship and get funerals in accordance with his beliefs (aka throw overboard)
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Definitely raped children.
Serially too I bet
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Maduro and his wife have been indicted in the U.S. for “narco-terrorism.”
I question whether the DoJ even actually got a grand jury to sign off on this.
I bet it wouldn't be hard to do, but I too have skepticism they actually did it.
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Damn. That peace prize for next year looking shaky.
When the opposition person got the peace prize, you knew regime change was coming.
Looks like Trump was jealous of Israel and Russia land grabbing.
This is wrong. I don't support this at all. We deserve to be condemned and sanctioned by the international community for this.
This is crazy. Was this war even approved by congress?
Has any war been approved since WWII?
Yes. It's basically been renamed to "authorization for use of military force" (AUMF).
e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_of_2001
I have nothing to really ad to the conversation at hand... But it's really cool that Wikipedia has a convenient section for all SC cases against a law in a section on that law.
Trump could annex Canada at this point and people will call it a distraction from the Epstein files.
The Epstein files are the greatest distraction from Trump literally implementing a fascist regime and invading and annexing other countries.
Motherfucker could personally execute every single member of congress, the supreme court and the house, and these idiots will still say "muh Epstein files!!!"
Well, tbh it did occur to me this morning, not first but pretty early as the entire radio broadcast was about Venezuela, "that child-fucker will do ANYTHING to get the Epstein accusations off the front page."
And America wonders why the rest of the world hates it.
We do not wonder that
No, it's the people who realize that and the people who don't know about anything outside US borders.
The first Blitzkrieg of the Fourth Reich has begun.
Are you in the states? You're fucked.
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What I want to knownis why the wife was also captur3d and now being "charged". Did she have a formal role in the Venezuelan government?
The fact both are being extradited seems like this was a plan to leave the country possibly negotiated with Trump, that got flipped into an arrest.
Maybe a double cross.
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americans will invade your country, kidnap your leader, install a puppet dictator, steal your riches, and then call the whole thing a distraction that doesn’t really matter (they didn’t do that when the same guy renovated a house, seemingly the house matters more to them than your country and its people)
International response is so vassal, that it's pathetic. Specially EU.
Where I am (Europe), I haven't seen a single article calling this what it clearly is. Maduro is just a captive in every article, never a hostage. But they have no issue calling an Israeli pow a hostage despite him being taken from his damn tank in occupied territory. The west has become a total and very visible clown show, and I don't think changing Trump to the next Obama can do a lot to change that perception internationally. Specially Europe has shown itself to be a particularly pathetic entity with very little independence from 'daddy' Trump.
Absolutely correct. Also claiming that as long as international law and UN charter are observed, everything is fine is disgusting beyond words. The world is facing an era of territory wars once more. Peak irony is Ukraine supporting illegal wars.
Gen-Z will get their illegal occupation to grind them up after all. Warms the cockles of my heart
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