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Lynne's avatar

In reality the U.S is at war with itself!

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

The elites are at war with the rest of us. Warren Buffett said, "There is a class war and we are winning."

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Lynne's avatar

However, from the vantage point of U.S corporate oligarchs (the real rulers of America) Venezuela does have an awful lot of OIL!

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Rosemary Van Dongen's avatar

It's all about the oil.

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Spunty's avatar

It's ALWAYS about the oil.

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Tachi's avatar

"poisoning people"

Yeah sure, you could just block this and another supplier is gonna take their place. Drug dealers are not holding people at a gunpoint and forcing them to buy and use narcotics

People are living under conditions where they're seeking any escape, or they've been addicted to opiates by careless prescriptions, or they're in a profession where using cocaine to stay awake is a standard, or they took up the habit because of peer pressure, or for whatever other reason they sought out these substances

But of course, those wouldn't be handy excuses for the obese draft dodger to put up a display of power

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Helge's avatar

ummmm I would just like to state a little known fact: FREUD (and at times JUNG) were COKE ADDICTS. Here in South Africa FREUD is the 'go to' psychologist and can do no wrong....and JUNG is basically BANNED (well he was under Apartheid)......and I became a member of the Jungian Society which held monthly meetings in the lecture rooms at the Technikon...after 2 years and then they were 'stopped'.

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Tachi's avatar

You reminded me of something I read recently, the name escapes me but the doctor who came up with the idea of long shifts in hospitals and generally argued that medical professionals should be pulling long hours especially during residency was a serious coke addict

The guy argued that people should be just working in a system similar to his... kinda neglecting to mention that even he himself needed drugs for it. And yet it's still the basis for how we run hospitals, with the predictable effects on the personel

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Jenye Monckton's avatar

And Israel does the same. Murdering and assassinating people, on foreign soil, enabled and financed by the USA . It’s a land and resources grab. It’s theft and the new world order,under a Trump / billionaire buddies,regime🤦‍♀️💔🤬🆘

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Helge's avatar

Exactly who writes his scripts for him? Or does he just have a natural inclination to bastardise language and meaning? It is just that power has gone to his head and has D. E. R. A. N. G. E. D. him. Either way he needs to be certified or arrested. dtRUM-P is a deadly lunatic.

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Peter: of Family Forrest's avatar

It would appear that the demonic mindset is bent on extending ''the genocidal solution'' incre-mentally as their final strategy for assembling their NWO

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Ron Stockton's avatar

Actually, Ricky, it appears that if you are Israel or the USA, you can kill civilians on foreign soil and get away with it. A law unto themselves - God made them do it!

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OneHundredThousandNedKellys's avatar

Trump is nothing more than the public face of a Zionist criminal cartel whose members include Pfizer. Check out Bobby's take down and expose of them 2020-2023. Why the change of heart, Bobby?

Any doubt of this was put to rest by the public shaming ritual featuring Bourla.

The US Administration. A subsidiary of Pfizer.

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Dan Bluemore's avatar

Impressive getting a Paul Daniels gag in there.

Good piece though, cheers.

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damien flinter's avatar

The CIA and their mob$ter buddies have been running the coke trade for generations, just as the Brits ran most of the opium trade, the raw material for heroin. Like alcohol, these substances are useful for keeping us divided and conquered. religion is similarly weaponised, as are our media.

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Edward Homson's avatar

This is part of the continuation of the US capitalist and neoliberal attacks on all states that dare to have left leaning government. You can guarantee that once they have destroyed Venezuela they will fo after Cuba.

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Win's avatar

I’m not sure if I can believe this, particularly as it is allegedly coming from the mind of someone who is not 100% reliable, given other (often dubious) claims, comments, declarations and statements that have been made repeatedly and regularly.

An Observation: When the power of the Head of State of a country, appears to be under threat or is in decline or his popularity is waning, he/they usually declare War. There is recent evidence of this.

This action often serves to draw on the attention of citizens, to protect and defend against an enemy- perceived or real.

A nation called to arms, is a nation that focuses on the Enemy (usually at the ‘gates’ or borders) and this has a way of diverting attention away from all the other contentious issues within the country.

Words like patriotism, loyalty and defence become high on the agenda. Notions such as Us and Them and Other are bandied about….

This ‘war’ however, on drug trafficking, on the cartels and agents (and even on the human trafficking trade) has legitimacy and is not before time.

HOWEVER, cynics might say that it is a good ‘move’ on the part of the president to make a declaration of ‘war’ as it draws citizens into a different way of thinking about him or any other political ‘circus’.

In certain circumstances, declarations of War are often political acts of self interest and the preservation of position and power.

Nations come together against a ‘common foe’. Any ‘war’ will do…..

History observes this to be a particular type of strategy in politics, when other things including rhetoric and manoeuvres, are not working effectively anymore and the popularity and power of individual political leaders, is seemingly diminishing or diminished.

Presidents, Emperors and other potentates throughout history, have used this strategy, with varying degrees of success. Declare a war on the enemy at the ‘gates’.

If Venezuelan drug cartels are the perceived enemy here, it may be wise to consider that they will have their US counterparts too…who are often wealthy, highly organised and powerful and unidentifiable.

Win some and lose some….part of the ‘deal’.

The boats are the small fry.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

I don't think that the people of the United States are going to fall for the ploy of starting another war to raise the popularity of a president. We have seen what has been going on and we're not going to unsee it.

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Win's avatar

Absolutely hope so….things are changing….never mind ‘woke’ and other pathetic labels, there has to be this Seeing. Let’s hope it becomes a reality and a common trend……

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Alex Cioranic's avatar

Trumpty-Dumpty wants oil and minerals...as does Mr. Xi himself. Birds of the same tyranical feather 🪶.

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Desmondo's avatar

Hardly. China buys its oil and minerals, makes things with them, and sells it to the world. The US does what those genocidal maniacs in Israel tells it to do, which is kill people and steal their stuff.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

I disagree that the Zionists taught the US to kill and steal. The British colonists, and later the American colonists, killed millions of Native American people in order to steal their stuff long before Israel was even an idea.

It's the MO of any settler-colonial entity to do this.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

I'm sorry that you have fallen for the US narrative about China. It has blocked you from thinking clearly. That's too bad.

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Liz Thompson's avatar

I've lost words. Again. If I wasn't a pacifist, I'd use the word 'assassination'. But do that once, and it starts a landslide. And the prospect of a war that might (would?) spread, suggests far worse in terms of deaths. Jokes, satire, cannot control this. War will not control this. As already proven. I will stand until I fall into the ground.

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Rock Cousteau's avatar

No, we are not at war. The idiot in the WH says a lot of things. He is trying to SOW the seeds for discord, but it doesn't exist. People need to see this and reject the invitation to be part of the hate. Just take a moment to consider if the actions you take will be good for Democracy or bad for Democracy. Do the right thing and reject the action that may not be good for Democracy.

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Paul Jackson's avatar

Not just oil but lithium too. Chavez and Maduro both did a terrible thing by claiming that Venezuela’s resources belong to the Venezuelan people.

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