“It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs,” she claimed in a social media publication.
Yes Trump literally said in his speech that’s what it’s about, they’re not even trying to hide it anymore.
Shit, pretty sure he’s on tape telling Netentyahu, that starting a war to cancel elections is a great idea that he wants to do.
He wants a regime change eventually, and so does the money behind him.
But what trump wants more, is anything that will cancel midterms and last long enough to cancel the next presidential too.
That’s why he’s doing this, holding onto political power is the golden goose. Not even trump is dumb enough to kill and eat the goose. As we get closer to elections, we’ll see him pass on money if it means holding onto power longer. But if midterms happen and he loses the House, that’s a lot of lost power, which means less money from bribes/grifts.
There’s no provision in US law for suspension of elections. No matter what we hold elections. Now they’ll certainly be ratfucked to hell and back but any suspension of elections will be totally illegal.
Problem is, it wouldn’t be the first thing that it totally and obviously illegal, that still gets done with 0 conequenses for the fascist.
yoo its only a few days after New Year wtf man.
Also this gives me 2019 vibes: January 2019 right after New Year Trump ordered missile strike that hit a top Iranian general’s vehicle.
It’s not just about oil, its about sour crude oil.
USA is an oil exporter. Why does it need more oil? The answer is, it doesn’t. But US oil companies need sour crude oil for their refineries, built during the 70’s and 80’s to refine exactly the kind of oil produced in Venezuela. Not designed to refine the shale oil produced in the fracking boom.
It’s all about the oil companies margins, and it will be paid for in American and Venezuelan blood. Because why pay to refit your refineries when human lives and presidencies are so cheap?
Yes pretty much what I wrote here, except I achieved getting over 40 downvotes.
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Do people criticizing AOC have any idea how limited a house members direct power is. The most impactful thing she can do from her seat on a regular basis is normalize the contempt. She’s not even a senator ffs. I really hope we’re able to rally against the hateful bigots. This country is a mess and full of dumbass tools blissfully ignorant to reality in every corner.
“Slams” omg this needs to stop. “AOC says the Truth Out loud.”
Even trump, for once, said the truth out loud
We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies (…) go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure (…) Let’s start making money
this would have been quite the bold claim if the used sponge of a president that you have didn’t literally say the same thing to reporters himself.
Yep, I been saying the same thing. I’ve been predicting a war with Venezuela for months. He is friends with the Saudis, and he wants what they have - billions in oil flowing in every single day.
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves on the planet, so of course he wants it, at any cost.
And just like he said in this morning’s announcement, he thinks he has the Monroe Doctrine to lean on, even if he doesn’t know what it is, or even who Monroe is. Somebody told him enough to make him think that it extends to the entire Western Hemisphere.
The plan is is for Trump to control the Western Hemisphere, Putin to control Europe and West Asia, and China to control the rest of Asia, and everybody to exploit the shit out of Africa.
The alternate take I’ve heard is to take Venezuela out of the oil market entierly thus driving up the price and propping up Russias economy for a bit longer.
No, Trump wants that money. He’ll be glad to sell it to Russia, perhaps even at a reduced rate, to help Russia’s economy, but he will not simply let it shut down.
The bigger issue is that apparently the infrastructure is old and decrepit, and needs major rehabilitation, but Trump is already inviting deals from American oil companies, so 2 or 3 of them will pay for the repairs, in exchange for exclusive rights.
But make no mistake, the bulk of the profits will go the Trump. He’s friends with the Saudis, and he wants the same lifestyle they have, and Venezuelan oil will give that to him.
We have to make sure he doesn’t get it.
Then do something about it. Have the congressional police arrest Trump, Vance, and Secretary of Defense Hegseth.
Ha!
All fair and good to “SLAM” him, but also fucking do something about it.
All the fucking Dems do is complaining, never any fucking actions. They have the power to
Do what about it? They’re not in charge. Of anything.
They have seats in whatever Americans call the equivalent to the Parliament, they can propose laws
Ah yes, in the same House that the Republican leaders have on indefinite recess.
Next looming manufactured-by-Republican crisis: That budget deal that reopened the government only lasts through the end of this month. They aren’t passing a budget if they aren’t in session!
They can at the very least stall that shit, or take it to court
Congress wasn’t asked. They weren’t even told.
This is now a one man show.
Why would they? Their voting base is happy to give them every excuse possible to not try anything at all. Why try anything? It’s Republican’s fault and any attempt to criticize neo-liberal Democrats who do nothing at all will be shot down as somehow defending Republicans. If you keep demanding action they’ll call you maga and block you.
imagine a person with physical access to congress having no idea of how to stop the regime
Americans are so useless lmao
And deflecting from the Epstein files. Never forget that. Now that they’ve recently found a billionteen more files it’ll take 'em a bit longer to redact, I mean release them. But yes, the oil. Now they can drive cheaply to their rape locations.
This is the correct answer!
As always, she is absolutely right.
She’s an intelligent, well thought out person but no one deserves that kind of fanaticism.
Thank god they put “slams” in the headline, otherwise lemmy’s anti-progressive contributors might not have an easy excuse to ignore AOC.
“I want to make it very clear that I am slamming this operation. Make sure to put that in the headline!”
It’s even better.
Trump already stabbed the Venezuelan people in the back.
They are working with the vice president, meaning this has nothing to do with liberation. Nothing. Simply control of resources, nothing else.
Venezuela VP?
Yes, the same one who was part of all the brutal shit Maduro was part of.
Venezuelans celebrating my ass. Any who are just don’t realize they’ve been had yet.
The only news sources I know of claiming the Venezuelan government was involved in “brutal shit” are the same ones telling us all sorts of other things that tended to be greatly exaggerated, misrepresented, or left out/kept silent on other pertinent details that changed the understanding of the story. The news sources owned by billionaires and corporations with agendas.
So the EU, the UN, the ICC, Amnesty International… they’re all part of this so-called exaggeration and misrepresentation? Just trying to understand.
I’m saying we need to fix our own "brutal shit” before worrying about others. Abu ghirab? Deportation centers. Rough rides. Hands up, don’t shoot! I can’t breathe! Extrajudicial bombings of citizens.
Funniest part was Russia denouncing unprovoked US actions.
A special military operation to overthrow a government that takes less than 3 days, only a few hours to be precise… Must be hard to see others achieve that when you are not even close to that at day nr. 1,409.
This reminds me of Bush standing on an aircraft carrier with a “Mission Accomplished” banner behind him. Trump says he’s gonna run Venezuela and seize their oil. The violence is only just beginning.
This is just the standard US foreign policy.
Sadly
