Venezuela has accused Donald Trump of making a “colonialist threat” after he said the airspace around the country should be considered closed.
The country’s foreign ministry called Trump’s comments “another extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people”.
The US does not legally have the authority to close another country’s airspace, but Trump’s online post could lead to travel uncertainty and deter airlines from operating there.
If I were you, I would get out of Venezuela! - Our President.
Then shuts down their airspace and starts blowing up boats.
No escape from the christofascist murderers.
Thr anti-war candidate, according to the nyt and wapo opinion sections
Iraq War: Arepas Edition
It Is a colonialist threat
He’s desperate to use anything he can to declare martial law, either by triggering mass anti-war protests or simply using the war as an excuse to suspend elections.
Don’t worry everyone. Some democrat will post a very safe and polite tweet soon.
They write a sternly worded letter.
Oh, Mr Nobel peace prize is just grouchy.
Sooo… Venezuela might be the 51st state in the USA soon?
what the fuck
Just so it’s clear, Venezuela has ample oil, and holds one of the world’s top ten supplies of fresh water.
Does the Swiss based Nestle want the water for their plastic bottles?
Didn’t they also heavily develop a lithium extraction industry in the last decade or so?
i think they have 2nd highest amount of oil/gas deposit outside of the ME.
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I’m old enough to remember when trump would pretend to be opposed to foreign military adventures. He literally built his political career on shitting on the neocons that launched us into illegal wars like what we did in Iraq.
You’re not wrong. But what is missing is all the cult building that he did since them. He built his entire political career on mentioning things other politicians refused to mention and then gaining loyalty for it. While, at the same time, literally doing nothing about any of the popular ideas he mentioned.
Im certain the nobel commitee is currently scrambling how to not give him an award without triggering an international incident.
And the actions surrounding Venzuela kinda prove that Trump is willing to go to war to receive his peace price.
The post above this was:
As Epstein files release looms, questions abound on what happens next: ‘Possibilities are endless’
he using nixons method, go to war with drugs/vietnam, in order distract from his political problems, its a time honored tradition amongst conservatives.
Nixon’s war on drugs was for voter disenfranchisement, not distraction.
The war in Vietnam was for the US’s absolutely rabid anti-communism and racist yellow peril
If the prediction markets weren’t all owned by Trump and his cronies I would bet that boots go on the ground whatever day they are supposed to turn over the files.
I’m ignorant of the culture and structure of these markets still.
Would the market have to set up a bet for this? Can you propose it? How would it work?
There’s Bookmakers, who are professionals responsible for estimating likelihood of events using maths
But they can become corrupted, or simply told “you’re not allowed to accept bets on this subject, ever, or lose your license”
Sounds familiar.
It’s unregulated bookies. You would be better off betting a stranger in a pub.
Its like 90% timing of politics too. So since they are all either owner by Trump and his inner circle or are friends with them they can just call Trump up to delay or accelerate something a day of the odds get too lopsided.
Well, this is the new world order now. This is what Russia drove the world into: it’s now ok for larger countries to just annex (parts of) smaller countries.
If other nations don’t like it, just hang on to it until enough people forget that you didn’t own it in the first place.
Russia is a genocidal gangster petro-state, led by a criminal wanted by the ICC, that should be kicked out of Ukraine, but credit where credit is due: the most recent era of great power military adventurism started when the US ignored the UN and international law to invade Iraq in 2003. So if we want to talk about who drove the world in this shit, the answer is clearly the USA.
Israel is a fan of this method as well.
Pretty much what is happening in the Middle East right now too. And mind you if Venezuela didn’t have oil, the US wouldn’t care at all.
Yeah, and also that one (at least the latest escalation) happened after Russia normalized it. Also a possibility that Russia made it happen to make people get distracted from Ukraine.
Except that’s only true if you just ignore history. Which is something you seem pretty hell-bent on doing so.
Accurate and undeniable.
Wouldn’t ‘Imperialist’ be more accurate than ‘Colonist’ though?
I don’t think Trump wants a new American Colony in Venezuela, he just wants their resources and (unpaid) labor.
It’s close enough geographically that I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an attempt to FREEDOM them into being the 51st State
What’s even the thought there, you shot boats claiming they had drugs on them, are they claiming every plane is also carrying drugs? Why wouldn’t they just intercept them at the runway in the U.S. to sieze the drugs if any of it was drugs coming to the U.S. supposedly?
Precursor to an invasion. It’s basically a warning to the rest of the world: all flights going to, from, or through Venezuelan air space would do well to divert around it because soon that air space is going to be a war zone.
Because it was never about drugs.
Well, it definitely wasn’t about the friends we made along the way. We’re actively trying to backstab each and every one.
They’re trying to put all the fish in one barrel. They’re doing a similar tactic with trans people in the US by fucking with passports
Agreed. And why not just intercept the boats too? More proof that it wasn’t about the drugs.
I’m sure you’ll figure it out when they start ‘finding drugs’ on their domestic enemies.
Why wouldn’t they just intercept them at the runway
Gotta justify $850 billion military budget somehow, plus Donny and Petey get a hate boner blowing up brown people
What’s even the thought there
There will be airfights and Trump is minimizing civilian casualities.
Trump is minimizing civilian casualties
Hahaha. Right.
As he literally murders civilians in international waters
Airfights? You mean an invasion by the United States trying to wage a massacre on a sovereign nation for nothing other than trying to rob the working class and give money to the rich?
He couldn’t give a fuck about civilians. He’s a murderer, a rapist, a fraud, and he prays on the misfortuned
