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Do you mean Maduro threatening to invade Guyana? I think that's just saber rattling neither the US nor his southern cone neighbors, even the socialists, would allow it.
He means the opposite, Trump threatening Venezuela because he needs a distraction from his presence in the Epstein files.
Do we have another war in post-WWII history where a credible theory for its genesis is a leader trying to distract from a scandal? Closest I can come to is the Falklands War.
Feels like the latter. Remember during his first term Trump had John Bolton try various coup schemes.
Also Trump on the same subject: https://x.com/Acyn/status/1667682589333659648
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> stretch to call annexation/reunification (pick whichever you like) an invasion. There was no fighting Invasion is occupation. Fighting isn't a pre-requisite. Entire colonies were gained in the age of empire through gunboat diplomacy [1]. We even extend the metaphor to invasive species. > Majority of Crimean population voted in favor Correct. > Anyone thinks that Crimeans want to rejoin Ukraine is delusional With pr…
Why stop with these examples though? By the same rhetoric, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Finnish Lapland, Venice, Eastern Germany, Quebec, Hawaii and Texas are all occupied either by force or gunboat diplomacy.
Because it’s a long list and I was being polite.
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So then it isn't much of a distraction
> then it isn't much of a distraction People were talking about it. Now we’re talking about Venezuela, too. That’s how distractions work.