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Molly Meldrum's avatar

Spot on Neil. The empire is simply doing what empires do, whether run out of the City of London, or from Wall Street -same playbook.

Christine Tara's avatar

Neil is spot on and presents succinct ideas. Your ideas are the same, short and sweet and true, true.

Amber Fritz's avatar

Agreed. Mob tactics at scale.

Carole's avatar

Thank you for this!

“What happened was a cross-border seizure of a sovereign head of state. Armed force entered another country, removed its president, and treated him as transferable cargo. If any weaker country had done this, or if it had been carried out by a non-state actor, the language would be immediate and harsh. It would be called terrorism or aggression. The reason it is not labeled that way now has less to do with law and more to do with power, optics, and narrative control.”

TheWarToStayHuman's avatar

You’ve got a helluva knack for cutting through the bullshit. Your posts are gold.

黑猴王 (Black Monkey King)'s avatar

It is far more than that. It was an open provocation of the nuclear weapons armed enemies and frenemies of the USA. It is a “DARE to oppose me the gawd-mandated King of the World and same as the as to Maduro will happen to you” by a sociopathic white supremacist pedophile-billionaire and his equally criminal administration and ally-nations.

It’s kind of like a schoolyard bully smacking your nerdy friend while testing what you will do.

Until you just knock the bullying sucker out with a fine uppercut.

Anyhow’s pedo-Trump will soon find out that threatening the world and all of human-kind as he is delusional doing was one of his and his nation’s worst mistakes..

Donald Williams's avatar

An organized international body of criminals, operating a complex and ruthless behavioral code, extortion. Mafioso USA

Michelle's avatar

This is his pathetic attempt to destroy BRIC 🤣🤣🤣

Neil Zhu's avatar

I think it is more about the petrodollar's dominance.

Molly Meldrum's avatar

Absolutely Neil. This US plan - driven by Wall Street - is to capture, control, and collateralise Venezuela's oil assets to fuel (pun not intended) a new credit cycle. It's a response to skyrocketing debt, and the largest decline in the value of US Treasuries in more than 250 years ie. ever.

Lorraine Richards's avatar

ok. you in the cities it is so right on. I am at the strong wrong site!

Steve Mudge's avatar

This, besides keeping an enormous oil supply secure and hopefully helping Venezuelans have a more prosperous future, also sends a message to Iran (who has been funding Hezbollah activity and drone manufacturing there),Russia, and China to back off from meddling in the Western Hemisphere. The drug charges aspect is of course bogus.

Edad's avatar

Kidnapping to increase currency value.