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Republicans are all born-again neocons overnight, just like ST Trump s.
If this doesn't shake Congress to move to get rid of this imbecile, literally nothing will. Not felony convictions. Not messing with underage girls with Epstein. Literally nothing.
Republicans are all born-again neocons overnight, just like ST Trump s.
Not good, we need boots on the ground to enforce actual regime and policy change.
Good luck running the country without boots on the ground.
We need to have boots on the ground and start The Draft. It's time these lazy Gen Z'ers under 30 actually do something useful and patriotic for the first time in their lives.
And since these young feminazis want all this feminism, make it an equal opportunity Draft, similar to Israel both males and females alike under the age of 30 shall be drafted to the operation to secure Venezuela. Females under 26 should be equally required to register for selective service.
Go for it
You gonna enlist?
Surprisingly she won given her hawkish takes on Maduro. She actually dedicated her award to Trump.
I don't think so, Trump's lame duck status is coming to the fore
MTG is looking past Trump for her own career prospects
"DOHA backchannels"
looks like Delcy Rodriguez played us, time will tell
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nat...312516272.html
Time will tell indeed. I won't put much stock into what D-Rod is saying publicly.
wormhole sounds crazypants without context, but the context makes it barely plausible
I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?"
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he TALKED about being anti-cartel, but he was actually using the Honduran government to prop up the Sinaloa Cartel.
And here's the really fun part: Guess how many of the 21 boat strikes are against Sinaloa, and guess how many are against their rivals? I know this because apparently, cartels use established drug trafficking routes, and none of them have been on the routes Sinaloa uses.Sinaloa is technically one of those narco-terrorist cartels, but I remind you, they haven't been hurt, and Hernandez did get pardoned.And Trump has gone from nearly broke to a portfolio of $11.6 billion.
what Trump is saying seems frankly disconnected from reality
It often sounds that way which is what makes him unpredictable. Frankly, I thought this military buildup was a bluff that got called but apparently not.
Trump's statement that we're running things in Venezuela now is completely untethered to facts
We don't know what he's actually talking about and frankly we don't know even really know all the facts either.
What we do know is you will be his biggest apologist here no matter what.
Free internet for Venezuela
In the USA, charged for that
America last
I've gotta disagree with this, it's no longer 2003
They're not neocons, they're not doing it to make the world safe for democracy and self-determination
E.g., it would seem Trump prefers to be on the side of the consolidated power of Chavista regime than the idealistic losers who opposed Maduro and won the election in 2024
for pragmatic reasons, Trump/Rubio prefer the Bolivarean technocrat to the democratic resistance
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...core-ios-shareWeeks earlier, U.S. officials had already settled on an acceptable candidate to replace Mr. Maduro, at least for the time being: Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who had impressed Trump officials with her management of Venezuela’s crucial oil industry.
The people involved in the discussions said intermediaries persuaded the administration that she would protect and champion future American energy investments in the country.
“I’ve been watching her career for a long time, so I have some sense of who she is and what she’s about,” said one senior U.S. official, referring to Ms. Rodríguez.
“I’m not claiming that she’s the permanent solution to the country’s problems, but she’s certainly someone we think we can work at a much more professional level than we were able to do with him,” the official added, referring to Mr. Maduro.
It was an easy choice, the people said. Mr. Trump had never warmed up to the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who had organized a winning presidential campaign in 2024, earning her the Nobel Peace Prize this year. Since Mr. Trump’s re-election, Ms. Machado has gone out of her way to please him, calling him a “champion of freedom,” mimicking his talking points on election fraud in the United States and even dedicating her Peace Prize to him.
It was in vain. On Saturday, Mr. Trump said he would accept Ms. Rodríguez, saying that Ms. Machado lacked the “respect” needed to govern Venezuela.
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the media and oil companies knew about the raid beforehand, but the US Congress didn't
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/0...venezuela-raidThe New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops, two people familiar with the communications between the administration and the news organizations said.
"strategic results through jawboning and air power will happen this time"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ezuela-maduro/A former staffer said that U.S. officials would not be performing a formal occupation like in Iraq. “We’re going to tell them: ‘Hey, this is what you have to do in order for there not to be another strike. That’s what [Trump] sees as running the country.”
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