US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.

  • El Barto@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Organize against what, exactly?

    The way I see it, it’s two assholes fighting. Both suck and are responsible of crisis and death of their own country people. Let them fight, then. Though I know Venezuela doesn’t stand a chance, unfortunately.

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      35 minutes ago

      Whatever the situation is in Venezula, it’s not going to be a good thing for America to get entangled.

      Hussein was a pretty bad dude, but our intervention in Iraq ultimately was bad for America and didn’t exactly make things in Iraq better.

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      12 hours ago

      Ah yes you are displaying the kind of intelligence the US military favours in its recruits. Non at all.

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        11 hours ago

        I won’t say my grammar is perfect, but I do try not to misspell things and insult other people’s intelligence at the same time.

    • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.ml
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      14 hours ago

      would there a marxist revolution against both maduro and trump in venezuela? NOT repeating any US state department talking points (looking at you, hexbear!), just asking. seriously!

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        9 hours ago

        Why would there be a Marxist revolution in Venezuela if they already have a Bolivarian revolution going on? Venezuela is an extremely grassroots country, more than 10% of the state budget is allocated to local committees to spend however they democratically desire from what I gather. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans are actually enlisting as volunteers this past month to the country’s militias to defend the country from possible American invasion.