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Voltaire2

(15,377 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 10:20 AM Feb 2025

Venezuela.

First, I’m against US military and economic interventions in the internal affairs of other countries. If there is a manifest ethical crisis, for example a genocide, then intervention should be through international cooperation, not unilateral action.

That said, our policies with respect to Venezuela have been decades of economic sanctions and assorted interventions by our intelligence services in our efforts to destabilize and destroy the socialist government that has controlled that country for that time.

The felonious idiot in chief rescinding refugee status for Venezuelans, and then using these refugees as test cases for the gitmo concentration camps is a huge gift to the authoritarian Maduro regime.

WTAF are they thinking? Is anyone actually thinking? Are they just acting out like toddlers? Are these questions rhetorical?

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Venezuela. (Original Post) Voltaire2 Feb 2025 OP
It seems like all of our serious questions about this Whyisthisstillclose Feb 2025 #1
It would have been more absurdly appropriate Voltaire2 Feb 2025 #4
I think it's a test to see how well it can work on American citizens. Autumn Feb 2025 #2
Oh that absolutely. Voltaire2 Feb 2025 #3
They want all of the oil Comrade Citizen Feb 2025 #5
Sure but this will have the opposite effect. Voltaire2 Feb 2025 #6
Yes! MineralMan Feb 2025 #7
The point is to collectively harm all Venezuelans worldwide Comrade Citizen Feb 2025 #8
1. It seems like all of our serious questions about this
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 10:28 AM
Feb 2025

"new normal" are rhetorical. Not a lot of serious answers coming, just 99-0 votes for the likes of Marco Rubio.

Comrade Citizen

(344 posts)
5. They want all of the oil
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:43 AM
Feb 2025

Big oil is upset at losing control of the oil.
They will hurt all Venezuelans worldwide until they gain control of all of Venezuela's oil reserves, and they will continue to hurt Venezuelans out of spite for taking "their" oil.

Voltaire2

(15,377 posts)
6. Sure but this will have the opposite effect.
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 12:03 PM
Feb 2025

"Big oil is upset at losing control of the oil." - that was the interventionist policy rational that dominated our approach t Venezuela since the Chavez regime was elected.

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