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Trump imposes harsh sanctions on Colombia for not accepting "repatriation" flights (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

It's a response to make them do it. And it worked. They caved.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I just saw the news that Colombia gave in.

Trump is going all in. He's reverting to the 19th century way of strong arming other countries over petty things. He's reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago

He’s reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.

It never went away...

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