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US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.

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[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Starting a nonsense war under the guise of "spreading democracy" just to take their oil reserves so that rednecks back home can pollute the air and warm the earth with their oversized trucks. Can it get any more American this?

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He wants to declare war on Venezuela next year (or hopes that he can agitate them enough to commit an act of terror on the US) so he can deny midterm elections because he knows the GOP majority will potentially be cooked

Remember how much his eyes shifted when he was told that elections can be delayed due to a country being at war

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

He's not 100% wrong.

I'm sure he remembers fondly how every single news network praised him profusely when he dropped the MOAB on Afghanistan.

He knows very well how much the US loves a warmongering president.

[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

are you talking about the bunker buster in Iran?

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

I'm starting to get the impression that a large fraction of Americans have lustful thoughts at the idea of mass murdering civilians (including children) as well as at the idea of their "leaders" having sex with children.

Theirs is a diseased relationship with power.

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 points 1 month ago

It's not like the Pilgrim Fathers weren't a bunch of religious nutjobs

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

We are a nation that really has never given a crap about bombing civilians en masse. Hell, President Obama, whom many still revere, dropped 20,000 bombs just in the last year of his presidency and killed an American citizen in Iraq ordering a bombing as well.

[-] n0respect@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remember

It looked like he thought no one had ever thought of it before, and that he was a genius.

[-] mos@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Do you have a link to that clip of the shifty eyes?

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