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0 pointsmindcrash2mo ago0 comments

As a European:

His voters thought Trump would be different, he would bring the troops home, put the homeland first, and that he would fight the Deep State.

In reality, he's building out Imperium Americanum, he is fighting wars without Congressional approval and proper casus bellis, he's not bringing the troops home and it is clear he represents the fucking Deep State even more than any of his predecessors since JFK. Shame on him for renaming the Kennedy Center the Trump-Kennedy Center. Which is absolutely disgusting given the reality of things!

Prime example: Invading Venezuela to steal their oil, just like his predecessors did with Syria (if you do not believe me, look where the US Army is located in Syria, and the prime locations of their oil fields).

Additionally: Trump's United States now has given Putin's Russia and Xi's China precedent to do whatever they fucking want to whoever or whatever. Because who fucking cares about international law if even the United States government, home of freedom and democracy and the rule of law, currently doesn't even give a fuck?

So now fucking what?

(And yes, as you might have noticed I AM FURIOUS AS HELL.)

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andsoitis2mo ago

> His voters thought Trump would be different, he would bring the troops home, put the homeland first, and that he would fight the Deep State.

A journalist asked him in the press conference just now how capturing Maduro and running the country in iterim is "America First". His simple answer is that a more stable set of countries in the region is good for America.

mindcrashOP2mo ago

Just like outright stealing Greenland from Denmark "for national security" in his crazy narrative likely is.

And now I wonder what fucking insane manufactured casus belli he will create to invade and annex Canada.

So many people thought he was grand standing and just talking shit. But now it looks like he wasn't doing that at all, hasn't he?

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mytailorisrich2mo ago

Right now the US have not invaded Venezuela but in effect attempted to precipitate a "coup". We shall see what happens now. Note, too that Maduro is not widely recognised as President by Western countries because of accusation of election rigging.

This is classic US action South of the border since the 19th century so I think the outrage is excessive. Perhaps people think, wrongly, that this is new becaude of Trump. What is new is that this seems actually aimed against China.

Regarding international law, it seems that it's been invoked so much in recent years that people have "drunk the Kool Aid" and actually believe that this is something carved in stone that must be obeyed, or even just actual "law"...

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