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Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Post by cosmicgadget »

fzeroracer wrote: post #3

Footage is quickly spreading, looks like strikes on military bases as well as a bunch of low-flying helicopters, so a strike + a ground invasion? They didn't even try very hard to manufacture consent for a war against Venezuela. Wonderful.

Trump ran on "no more wars". Manufacturing consent means admitting that he's entering a conflict. His more effective play is to pretend it's not happening and attack anyone who criticizes him.

Plus, the more of a splash, the more Epstein stays out of the news.

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Post by OgsyedIE »

coffinbirth wrote: post #8

Always remember the role of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in preparing this unprovoked and illegal (under international law) attack on Venezuela by awarding the prize to María Corina Machado. Julian Assange actually filed a Swedish criminal complaint against Nobel Foundation officials, alleging misappropriation of Nobel endowment funds and facilitating war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the 2…

Not just Assange, incidentally.

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Post by avidiax »

fzeroracer wrote: post #3

Footage is quickly spreading, looks like strikes on military bases as well as a bunch of low-flying helicopters, so a strike + a ground invasion? They didn't even try very hard to manufacture consent for a war against Venezuela. Wonderful.

We don't need to manufacture consent anymore. The days of protest ending a war that the US is engaged in are long gone, if they were ever here.

Even the ballot box isn't enough. We don't have an anti-war party in the US.

Our news media are largely captive to the military, with the embedded reporter system.

Congress has abdicated broad war powers to the president, and the courts won't intervene.

The global community can't do anything to the US. Sanctions are very unlikely.

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Post by immibis »

underdeserver wrote: post #2

Prediction: this headline will be renamed "US invades Venezuela" very soon.

Prediction: it won't. HN is very touchy about things that make the president look bad, as well as about bold statements, as well as about politics (except when it's good for VC money, then it's apolitical).

Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

dekrg wrote: post #5

It will be pretty amusing to watch all those westerners who, not so long ago, were talking about "rules based order" pretend nothing is happening or to justify it.

> all those westerners who, not so long ago, were talking about "rules based order" pretend nothing is happening or to justify it

MAGA is a rejection of the international rules-based order. Trump joins Putin and Xi in explicitly rejecting it. To the extent anyone in America is calling for a return to that order, they're doing it while criticising Trump.

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