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Uncle Joe

(64,146 posts)
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 10:59 AM 1 hr ago

Trump "Wants the Oil" as Venezuelans Resist "Economic Asphyxiation"



As the Trump administration escalates its military campaign against Venezuela, we speak to Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez about the latest developments. Responding to the U.S. military's drone strikes on small boats and seizures of oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela, Chávez says U.S. claims of pursuing fentanyl traffickers lack evidence and are "pretext" for an attempt "to asphyxiate the Venezuelan economy" and wrest control of the country's state-owned oil reserves. In the face of U.S. aggression, says Chávez, "Venezuelan communes and Venezuelan popular organizations in general have responded to Trump's claims that he owns the Venezuelan oil with a very strong response, saying that they're going to defend sovereignty, that they're going to defend Venezuela's self-determination."
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Trump "Wants the Oil" as Venezuelans Resist "Economic Asphyxiation" (Original Post) Uncle Joe 1 hr ago OP
OIL, Mohel. Trump doesn't know oil from Diet Coke. He's Mussolini and this is his Ethiopia to DISTRACT FROM EPSTEIN. usonian 1 hr ago #1

usonian

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1. OIL, Mohel. Trump doesn't know oil from Diet Coke. He's Mussolini and this is his Ethiopia to DISTRACT FROM EPSTEIN.
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 11:58 AM
1 hr ago

Don't fall for it. Oil is some chatbot excuse to control the news. So are drugs.

Chavez is his "Emmanuel Goldstein" strawman to start perpetual war and wrest total control.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220897407
Trump (2018): We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18 6:30 AM

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20729427

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385521-trump-we-dont-want-to-be-the-policemen-of-the-world/

President Trump on Monday said the U.S. should no longer serve as the “policemen of the world.”

“We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

“We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority,” he said.

Trump ran on the promise that he would extricate the U.S. from foreign wars.


Reason for the increasing acts of violence and state-sponsored terrorism?


He fears the sword of Damostein.
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