11 US warships and 15,000 troops now in Caribbean as Venezuela tensions escalate
11 US warships and 15,000 troops now in Caribbean as Venezuela tensions escalate
Pulling a Putin.
What are you doing amassing troops at the Ukraine border in a country you’ve manufactured lies about while your country flounders economically under shitty leadership?
Oh, nothing…
What are you doing amassing ships and troops in the Caribbean near a country you’ve manufactured lies about while your country flounders economically under shitty leadership?
Oh, nothing…
E: lookit all the “butwhatabout the US?!” who have poor reading comprehension. I already said the US is potentially behaving shitty just like Russia did do shitty. Very clearly I said that it’s a preexisting pattern, and I did not deflect from how shitty the US’s behavior is by butwhatabouting Russia. I only noted the pattern. Nonetheless, all the butwhatabout’s can’t seem to comprehend that and insist on butwhatabout-ing the US. Learn how to read. You’re not scoring any points.
Pulling a Putin.
Regime changes in South America are as American as apple pie. No need to invoke Putin.
Oh for sure. The US has used the Caribbean and the rest of the Americas south of it like it’s own little imperialist/colonialist backyard plaything. Banana republics and dictators and all.
Meanwhile the shitgibbon is pardoning a former south american president who was *convicted" of running cocaine into the USA and supporting the cartels.
*Central American
There will be a war to distract from the Epstein files, his horrid economy and all the harm he is doing to America.
War time is the best time for a grift, ask Dick Cheney... Oh wait
holy shit, i had no idea this was a decade in the making
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| Authority | Mechanism | Source |
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| IEEPA (50 USC §1701) | Declared “national emergency” enables sanctions | Wikipedia |
| Article II Commander-in-Chief | OLC opinions allow force for “national interests” without Congress | DOJ OLC Libya Opinion |
| 2001 AUMF | No geographic/temporal limits; used against “associated forces” | Congress.gov |
| War Powers “hostilities” loophole | Deployments don’t trigger 60-day clock absent sustained combat | State Dept 2011 Testimony |
| FTO Designation | Authorizes force against designated terrorist members | CNN |
| Title 50 Covert Action | Presidential finding only requires Gang of Eight notification | CRS R45191 |
Maduro is calling Trump's bluff I think.
Trump can't actually send troops in, or do anything more than Tomahawk some facilities (if even that). So I'm pretty sure Trump is just getting desperate with this "close the airspace" shit.
It's like pretending to swing at someone hoping they will run away, knowing full well you won't fight them if they don't.
But America also has a long history of being the bully on the block that no one should mess with ... but the bully keeps provoking everyone and when someone hits back, even if it doesn't hurt the bully, the bully's going to bring his baseball bat and brass knuckles, beat up the person who fought back and argue that they were just defending themselves.
Israel didn't come up with the idea on their own.
I don't think that is how bullies operate my friend.
And as everyone knows, when someone throws a sprig of mistletoe at a bully they'll come back with a chess set and eat them in front of you and then give you a turtle.
I'm not so sure, the last person that called the "bluff" was Saddam. I don't think Maduro is in a better position.
I don't think Maduro is in a better position.
While Maduro himself isn't a very well liked leader, his party, the PSUV, and the social movement base that put Hugo Chavez and the PSUV into power to begin with, is very popular.
And that social movement base is made up of a network of communes and neighborhood committees which run their own infrastructure, train cadre, operate people's militias, etc. In addition to the traditional, top-down organs of the Venezuelan military.
Plus, the opposition is even more unpopular than Maduro, within the country, and can't even scrounge up anyone to represent them politically. Sure, right now it's Machado, but does anyone remember Juan Guaido? A man that the US arbitrarily recognized as the real president of Venezuela, despite 80% of Venezuelans having never heard of him?
That's much more significant than Sadam, who's Baath party had no real social base by 2003, and was highly disconnected from the interests of most Iraqis.
Not to Mention that the geography is very different. Iraq, save for the northern mountains, is very flat. While Venezuela is very mountainous. The coasts aren't flat, easy to land on, beaches. They're giant mountains which give a lot of cover from naval artillery, and the rugged terrain means insurgents in the mountains who are nigh impossible to root out.
Why can’t tRump send troops in?
MAGA is already having a stroke trying to make everything make sense. Sending in troops and losing American soldiers' lives for dubious reasons will only break MAGA more.
If they lose too much support, they will pull the plug on Trump.
Which is exactly how wars start.
Anyone banking on the US military having spine and/or a conscience, y'all better be watching this.
Everytime you hear about US having any sort of "values", you can chuck it up as propaganda.
They stand for nothing but self-aggrandizing bullshit.
"Tensions escalate"
US escalates tensions more like
Wtf... I did not see the orange cancer starting a war out of nowhere with freakin Venezuela. Can pudding-brain finally be put out of our misery, or is it too much to hope the GOP (guardians of pedophiles) will grow spines?
Put these traitor fucks in cages already. Trump voters you own all of this shit and none of you will ever be forgiven. Your progeny will spend decades trying to distance themselves from you and your disgrace. You are traitors.
I guess Poland is safe because it was done before.
first the world takes Russia then the world takes USA
D day and Nuremberg all over again
Not happening on either count. The EU is too chicken shit to "take" Russia and there's no reason for anybody not directly in the US's orbit to interrupt it while it kills itself.
Can't fuckin believe his nonsense
I wish somebody could stand up to him. But war is hell on earth, literally, so I can't really blame countries not getting involved. And given the depressingly small number of military officers resigning/refusing the illegal orders given so far, it's a pretty bleak picture all around...
Inb4 MASH reference
Honestly I'm disappointed in the military members that aren't refusing their illegal orders. Clearly they either see no issues here, or they think the Nuremberg Defense will work this time.
I can. It's totally on brand. America has only fought a handful of "good wars" in the last century and a half.
I'd argue one, and only because FDR wasn't a shit bag.
War is a racket.