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[Mick Dempsey]

Trump says that the US will run Venezuela and  American oil companies will run the oil business.

36 hours to take a country and not a single American soldier killed.

If it was a film you’d say it was too far fetched.

 

Meanwhile hundreds of thousands Russian soldiers dead and cities reduced to rubble in a war in stalemate.

 

An extraordinary day in history.

Edited Saturday at 16:52 by Mick Dempsey

[Mick Dempsey]

Trump’s snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power | CNN

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Expressions of unbridled power don’t come blunter than abducting a sitting president from his capital in the dead of night.

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[Johnsond]

23 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Trump says that the US will run Venezuela and  American oil companies will run the oil business.

36 hours to take a country and not a single American soldier killed.

If it was a film you’d say it was too far fetched.

 

Meanwhile hundreds of thousands Russian soldiers dead and cities reduced to rubble in a war in stalemate.

 

An extraordinary day in history.

Might is right 🤷‍♂️unfortunately 

The American oil companies have long memories. 

Edited Saturday at 17:04 by Johnsond

[Mesterh]

So the message from the US is, if you have something that we want and you are doing something that we dont like then we can use that as an excuse to take over your country!  

[Mark Bolam]

Pretty much.

I think we are safe.

[Mesterh]

Thats depressing. So we are more sh1tter than Venezuela

[Mick Dempsey]

I guess we are entering a new age. This latest act will cement his authority at home.

 

The US (under DJT) is no longer a reliable ally, and is rapidly becoming a existential threat to many other countries previously thought safe.

 

How long before he walks into Greenland? Who is going to stop him?
 

[doobin]

24 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I guess we are entering a new age. This latest act will cement his authority at home.

 

The US (under DJT) is no longer a reliable ally, and is rapidly becoming a existential threat to many other countries previously thought safe.

 

How long before he walks into Greenland? Who is going to stop him?
 

Those cnts have always been ‘America First’. Trump just exemplifies it. 

[openspaceman]

49 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I guess we are entering a new age

 Yes 80 years after the need for lebensraum was seen off we enter the need for control of resources. Russia largely has its own and so does China, having bought most of African ones.

[Mike Hill]

1 hour ago, doobin said:

Those cnts have always been ‘America First’. Trump just exemplifies it. 

Or we have simply entered a new age of     " gunboat diplomacy" .

 

I.e. The little dog gives the big dog fleas,what should the big dog do?