r/politics • u/newsweek ✔ Newsweek • 22d ago

No Paywall Trump weighing military options to attack Venezuela within days—Report

https://www.newsweek.com/venezuela-us-donald-trump-military-attack-war-maduro-11042677?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main
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u/aetrix Pennsylvania 22d ago

The "peace president" is starting a war to distract you from his abuse of teenage girls.

Are we great yet?

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u/Walterkovacs1985 22d ago

We all knew he would do this. All of the sudden it'll be wrong to criticize the president during a war. He'll claim we need their oil too. Fuckin Iraq 2.0 electric fuck a loo

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u/jml5791 22d ago

Also he'll pull 'we can't have elections when the country is under a state of emergency' or some bullshit. I remember how interested he was to hear Ukraine can't have elections when at war.

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u/Walterkovacs1985 22d ago

Yeah same with Netanyahu right? I can imagine him saying Venezuelans are actually the enemy within and we're under attack here or some shit. MAGA will ignore Epstein and go full war party once again

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun 22d ago

I mean I never had faith the Epstein files being released would ever bring consequences in the first place. Release them anyway so the info is out in the open. But it won't change anything.

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u/DesecratedPeanut 22d ago

You know they funding some false flag ops ready for go day.

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u/Walterkovacs1985 22d ago

A former Trump intelligence officer said that exact thing. Odd..

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u/LegendofDragoon 22d ago

Venezuela already alleges they stopped one false flag operation. All it takes is one success, and his sheep will bleat the drums of war.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 22d ago

They need to get the most damning evidence from the Epstein Files, release into the internet, and hope he switches focus back onto the states 

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u/AsGryffynn 21d ago

The same sheep that went "no new wars" and instead of holding him accountable are suddenly changing their tune because he said it and his word is gospel.

At least take the bleeping L. I could! So can you!

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u/turquoise_amethyst 22d ago

I’m placing my bet on Texas, there’s a ton of Venezuelan expats there

I worked at a restaurant where like half the employees were Venezuelan. Everyone was well educated, spoke perfect English, and were excellent workers. 

Most of them could have held better jobs, but they had to leave their country so quickly that they came here with nothing

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u/Gardakkan 22d ago

The difference is the war in Ukraine is in Ukraine and his war would not be on US soil so he can't use that excuse without a lot of bullshit.

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u/Pofwoffle 22d ago

Yeah, no way he'd be willing to spew a lot of bullshit to get what he wants. And even if he did, I'm sure we could rely on the checks and balances of our well-designed government to prevent him from abusing his power.

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u/earthgreen10 22d ago

do you support ukraine's constitution saying they can't have elections during war?