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Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Post by tdeck »

legitster wrote: post #178

I almost feel bad for the people who instigated the War on Terror. They did not know how badly it would go - and they worked really hard and tirelessly to build and sell their illegitimate case to the American public. This administration is making the same mistakes - but in living memory of the first, with a less noble prize, and with complete derision of Congress and Americans' intelligence.

Why? They accomplished their goal (making money in Iraq for US business interests, expanding the power of the presidency massively) and have suffered no consequences.

Re: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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Post by hearsathought »

vmg12 wrote: post #411

I think people are overindexed on the US's failures to turn Islamic theocracies into democracies. The people in Venezuela want democracy. It's a fundamentally different situation.

> The people in Venezuela want democracy.

Venezuela had a democracy for decades. It's the US that has been trying to destroy it for decades because the venezuelans voted for the wrong guy. It's funny how we forgot that the US also tried to remove the previous elected leader of venezuela.

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Post by guerrilla »

phtrivier wrote: post #422

If it's to get access to the oil reserve, it is bad news for the shale oil industry in the USA : maybe "drill baby drill" is not feasible any more, and the only way to maintain the level of GDP is to get the oil from somewhere else. Or it's just banking oil to prepare a war with China. Thank FSM some AI-first is going to create fusion any time soon to power the robots solving climate change.

Don't expect the administration to make any sense on this topic. The same time they were signing executive orders and blabbing about the US oil industry, they were telling OPEC to lower prices. There's no coherency to be had with them. They simply don't understand the world or trivial economics.

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Post by epolanski »

I will spare saying the obvious illegality of such actions and how serious this is.

I will just say something else: I grew up as a kid between the 80s and 90s, when the world felt like it was going towards a brighter age of peace and respect. Berlin wall falling, China opening, Apartheid ending in South Africa, even Palestine and Israel were moving towards a more peaceful future.

But since then the world has just progressed toward darker and darker ages.

General public not caring anymore about any tragedy, it's just news, general public being fine with their press freedom being eroded, journalists being spied and targeted, more and more conflicts all around.

I just don't see nor feel we're heading where we should considering how developed and rich we are.

We should boast in how well we raise our kids, how safe and healthy our cities are, but it's nothing but ego, ego, money and money.

This is all turning worse and worse.

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