Venezuela has accused Donald Trump of making a “colonialist threat” after he said the airspace around the country should be considered closed.
The country’s foreign ministry called Trump’s comments “another extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people”.
The US does not legally have the authority to close another country’s airspace, but Trump’s online post could lead to travel uncertainty and deter airlines from operating there.
Oh, Mr Nobel peace prize is just grouchy.
Mrs. Nobel peace prize is inviting him in with open arms, so he might as well get the next one
Sooo… Venezuela might be the 51st state in the USA soon?
Don’t worry everyone. Some democrat will post a very safe and polite tweet soon.
They write a sternly worded letter.
I mean it’s basically just declaring war. It’s the US acting unilaterally to attack a foreign nation for no reason at all. Granted that’s nothing new, but at least with Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush got permission from Congress through the Iraq Resolution (and the AUMF Against Terrorists Act in Afghanistan’s case) before he actually invaded. I get the feeling Trump isn’t even going to ask, he’s just going to attack Venezuela, get dragged into a war, and die.
Then again, Obama attacked Libya without congressional approval, and while Congress could have done something about it, they didn’t.
They have oil. That’s the reason.
It’s not even good oil though! It’s hard to refine.
Baby don’t care. Baby, drill!
But the US has a lot of refineries on the Texan coast, which are designed to refine Venezuelan oil. Canadian crude can not be easily supplied, due to KeystoneXL having been blocked and Mexican crude is just not enough to run those refineries at capacity.
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why not do something useful like ATTACK RUSSIA!
fucking traitors.
He’s desperate to use anything he can to declare martial law, either by triggering mass anti-war protests or simply using the war as an excuse to suspend elections.
It’s not a colonialist threat. It’s effectively an act of war.
Thr anti-war candidate, according to the nyt and wapo opinion sections
War = Peace
Fuck this nazi shit country of the united christofascist goat fucking america
Just wait 'til Trump sets his eyes on Colombia and Panama. There’s a reason he’s unilaterally renamed that gulf…
It Is a colonialist threat
Every single fucking MAGAt, including Barron, should be lining up at the US Army recruiting offices signing up for 11 Bravo.
And every single liberal should be protesting this in all the ways they’ve been saying Russian civilians ought to.
If I were you, I would get out of Venezuela! - Our President.
Then shuts down their airspace and starts blowing up boats.
No escape from the christofascist murderers.
Russia conducts special military operations, while the US is fighting terrorism. It’s all the same. Except our media outlets - in the case of my country, mostly American - will only speak about one of the two. Let’s do our best to spread the word more or less evenly.
All empires will fall. They have to. Otherwise there’s no future for humanity.
Well, this is the new world order now. This is what Russia drove the world into: it’s now ok for larger countries to just annex (parts of) smaller countries.
If other nations don’t like it, just hang on to it until enough people forget that you didn’t own it in the first place.
Pretty much what is happening in the Middle East right now too. And mind you if Venezuela didn’t have oil, the US wouldn’t care at all.
Russia has oil. Why not fucking conquer them and save Ukraine while he’s at it? he’d be a world hero.
Yeah, and also that one (at least the latest escalation) happened after Russia normalized it. Also a possibility that Russia made it happen to make people get distracted from Ukraine.
Except that’s only true if you just ignore history. Which is something you seem pretty hell-bent on doing so.
Please tell me you are younger than the TSA
Russia is a genocidal gangster petro-state, led by a criminal wanted by the ICC, that should be kicked out of Ukraine, but credit where credit is due: the most recent era of great power military adventurism started when the US ignored the UN and international law to invade Iraq in 2003. So if we want to talk about who drove the world in this shit, the answer is clearly the USA.
Imagine a world where the USA, after 9/11, took up Iran’s offer to negotiate with Afghanistan in order to extradite Osama bin Laden and dismantle al Qaeda. (Iran together with Pakistan were positioned to succeed at this, and practically begged the USA to let them do so.)
Imagine Osama bin Laden goes to the Hague and is tried for his crimes. He goes to prison, no death penalty and no martyrdom, to rot away while the world gets on without him.
Imagine no black sites, no Guantanamo Bay. No Iraq war, and therefore no Daesh. No Afghanistan war, and therefore no opiates epidemic.
Imagine how Russia and the Middle East might have evolved in such a climate. Where would Europe be today, in that timeline? Would democracies across the globe have progressed, instead of backslide?
Back when this kicked off, Putin even cited a bunch of laws the UN drafted to justify the Iraq invasion.
Israel is a fan of this method as well.
