You can't even run this one dumbfuck
But yeah, sure, whatever, occupying a country is super easy, that's definitely what we learned in Afghanistan and Iraq /s
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In his remarks, Trump did not clarify what it would mean for the U.S. to “run” Venezuela but said that U.S. oil companies were prepared to make major investments in the country.
“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country,” he said.
Well...
That's something that everyone saw coming.
He abducted a sovereign ruler of another country, so that oil corporations can rape their natural resources.
They'll give a small cut to the new government to keep it under control, but private corporations basically just overthrew Venezuela while wielding the US military as a club.
How the fuck is invading another country for oil about a dead pedo who Trump was a well known friend of? This is literally conquest and you're still obsessing about an issue that could never seriously threaten Trump
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Yeah but the point OP is making is that the issue should not be forgotten just because the news cycle is moving on. Everyone can be outraged against both at the same time right?
The Epstein situation is more depressing than outrageous to me and always has been. As fucked up as it is, I have no faith in it ever jeopardizing his power in any way. Conservatives that often push for child marriages won't care. Edgy 4chaners who think loli porn is based are a major force in his youth support. Trump's fascism fundamentally mocks any moral outrage about right and wrong, viewing power as the only metric to determine right to rule. He does not care about God or country, something that most of the Christian nationalists who follow him accept because at least he wins.
My view has long been that Epstein is more of the distraction, despite what him and Trump did being pure evil. The forest is the systemic horrors inflicted on kids by ICE, by increased poverty, by a rise in right wingers who are controlling of kids, while the kids one group of pedos abused is just the biggest tree. All this flaffing around trying to find proof of what everyone already knows is outsized to its usefulness. Trump raped kids and there will never be accountability, while we can see actual good if we work to save new kids from cruel parents, a cruel legal system, and poverty. Even helping one kid in your own neighborhood will do more good than all the attention people have given to Trump/Epstein in the past year.
It's not the time nor place. Try to picture yourself outside of the USA for at least a second for once. A capital city was bombed and its leader was abducted. I'm not Venezuelan but I wouldn't give a fuck about internal American pedo drama when placed beside an American oil occupation of my country
So the time and place to call Trump a corrupt, criminal fascist isn't now? We should keep our criticism of him to just curren the current scandal? What purpose does this type of moderation serve in an open discussion?
I would take your point of this was an article about Palestine and OP was being pro-israel, but at most it was a bit flippant.
I'm not in the US. What gave you that idea anyway?
So the time and place to call Trump a corrupt, criminal fascist isn't now?
That's not what this is though and it'd be fine if that's what it was. Instead, this is focusing on the one aspect of the event that only affects Americans without acknowledging that the USA just bombed another, potentially taking the lives of innocent peoole
Edit: sort of just repeating my last comment in a different thread but imagine if the USA just bombed Ottawa, Canada and abducted Mark Carney, the PM of the country. Would you still just default to talking about the Epstein files?
*edit 2: responding too quickly and didn't catch that you're not American
so on the national stage I guess it worked
imagine if the USA just bombed Ottawa, Canada and abducted Mark Carney, the PM of the country. Would you still just default to talking about the Epstein files?
Yeah and imagine if someone from Venezuela popped up to say "hey Fuck Trump, he invaded us too!" Is that a different thing they're not allowed to talk about at that place and time?
Plenty of people getting hurt by the Trump admin and feeling angry about it. In the end we're all just saying fuck Trump here, what's the problem?
(Also arguing OP or I are too American or too somewhere else to understand your perspective is actually just demonstrating the behaviour you think you're calling out).
In the Mossad hard drives.
Remember when this asshat was acting like he was the only voice of reason when it came to calling out W on Iraq?
This seems even dumber than Iraq.
The word is 'rob'. He's going to rob Venezuela.
King Leopold of Belgium is just laughing his ass off in Hell's shit house.
Surprise surprise. And already tunnelling the oil.
LOL.