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MrWowWow

(1,461 posts)
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 08:42 PM Sep 2025

Venezuela Going to Be Attacked and Invaded Like Grenada Was?

What reasons would be used here? What U.S. assets are in danger there...Venezuela's oil? It's all provocation to distract us from the tr💩mpstein ugliness. Just remember that Venezuela is a member of OPEC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_United_States_invasion_of_Venezuela&wprov=rarw1

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Venezuela Going to Be Attacked and Invaded Like Grenada Was? (Original Post) MrWowWow Sep 2025 OP
Oil n/t deRien Sep 2025 #1
You could fit Grenada into Rhode Island 8.65 times, while Venezuela equals 4.3 Utahs . . . hatrack Sep 2025 #2
They absolutely should have done something when Venezuela nationalized Melon Sep 2025 #3

hatrack

(65,149 posts)
2. You could fit Grenada into Rhode Island 8.65 times, while Venezuela equals 4.3 Utahs . . .
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 09:01 PM
Sep 2025

Last edited Tue Sep 9, 2025, 08:15 AM - Edit history (1)

So, yeah, good luck with the invasion, War Department drunk and Slobby McPedo.

Melon

(1,709 posts)
3. They absolutely should have done something when Venezuela nationalized
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 09:13 PM
Sep 2025

US company assets and seized production. But….that was almost 20 years ago. Too late now and the US companies don’t put steel in the ground there anymore. Nothing there that is ours.

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