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Botany

(76,293 posts)
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 12:33 PM 3 hrs ago

The reason to attack Venezuela besides EPSTEIN

Trump:

"Well, it's about a lot of things," Trump said. "It's about that. It's about, you know, they took our oil,
they took it, …”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-land-strike-venezuela-facility-drug-boats-rcna251329

It is not our oil it is Venezuela’s oil. End of story.

I hope all Western Democracies recall their Ambassadors from America this was an act of war
by a mad man. For a man who had his father pay off a doctor and write a phony excuse in order
to stay out of combat Trump sure likes using the military to kill people.

For the love of Dog where is Congress? Where is our “liberal media?” He is so crazy that he
tore down > 25% of the White House including parts that were installed and or designed by
and for Thomas Jefferson, Theadore Roosevelt, and Jackie Kennedy and is using the rubble to
rebuild PUBLIC GOLF COURSES around D.C.. The White House is not his property.

He should not be in office.

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The reason to attack Venezuela besides EPSTEIN (Original Post) Botany 3 hrs ago OP
You think he would know by now that the oil belongs to the companies who drilled out of the ground and pay for the lease Walleye 3 hrs ago #1
II just saw today gab13by13 3 hrs ago #2
There is no reason for any destruction he has done since January except Epstein. usonian 3 hrs ago #3
Imperialists own everything everywhere malaise 3 hrs ago #4

Walleye

(43,755 posts)
1. You think he would know by now that the oil belongs to the companies who drilled out of the ground and pay for the lease
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 12:39 PM
3 hrs ago

The oil drilled out of our soil is not “our oil“ not unless things have changed a great deal. Certainly Venezuela’s oil is not ours. They will never forgive nationalizing any oil companies. That’s why they still won’t have relations with Cuba and why we blew up Saddam Hussein. Trump sees that they have a whole bunch of oil and as far as he’s concerned, oil is power so he wants it. He is so stupid and simplistic. this is why we wanted to go to alternative energy so we wouldn’t be held hostage by oil men

gab13by13

(31,092 posts)
2. II just saw today
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 12:54 PM
3 hrs ago

where Krasnov is giving over a billion acres of government land and water to gas, oil, and coal companies to drill and mine on.

This is why gasoline has stayed so low, quid pro quos.

usonian

(23,380 posts)
3. There is no reason for any destruction he has done since January except Epstein.
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 01:11 PM
3 hrs ago

" What about grift?," you say.

When the biggest sex, blackmail and money laundering scandal in the history of planet Earth goes down, so go his blackmail, money and power, and his entire supporting cast, possibly 5 men in black robes.

It's his everything.

What do you see in the mirror?



Oil, mohel. It's all wag the dog. All of it.

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