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USA declares war on Venezuela

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by astros123, Oct 23, 2025.

  1. astros123

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    NATO ministers are now talking amongst themselves about NATO defending Greenland against the US given Trump's renewed agressive rhetoric surrounding the territory.

    I can't say Trump starting a US war against NATO and the EU was remotely something I thought I'd ever have to think about. But apparently serious people in Europe are now thinking about that very posibility. So that's another nice secondary effect here that I'm sure totally makes America safer.





    Anyway, nobody's talking about Trump's violation of the law requiring release of the Epstein files or his prominent placement therein anymore, so I guess mission accomplished!
     
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    Bro wants to go back to pre 1776.
     
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    We have one now so you better get used to it. Just think about it breh, nobody will shoot a king.
     
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    I'm in Denmark right now and its terrifying watching the public react. Everyone here thinks Trump will annex Greenland and all the TV stations are fear mongering. You even had a documentary be shown talking about the nazi occupation in Denmark the other day. Everyone here is freaking out.
     
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    Bullshiit. I just saw you at the local library using their free WI-FI to post your bullshiit. I reported you to the librarian already.
     
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    If trump invades the Kingdom of Denmark, of which Greenland is a part of, it's the end of NATO. In my opinion. Putin would be delighted.
     
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    You and your King can go eat a bag of dicks.

    A King is treason.
     
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    [Forbes] Why Big Oil Is Unlikely To Run Back To Venezuela

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    All the oil companies that left Venezuela went to Canada and invested half a trillion dollars to pump and refine the same quality of heavy sour oil from Canadian oil sands.

    Returning to Venezuela and rebuilding Venezuelaian oil would DIRECTLY COMPETE with that half a trillion dollar investment they made in Canada not that long ago, relatively speaking. All they can do by investing in producing Venezulean heavy sulfurous oil is to undercut their ability to get decent ROI and profitability on their monumental massive investment in the similar quality oil sands in Western Canada which they invested in in the first place specifically to replace Venezuela.
     
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    Show of hands for anyone who believes this admenstruation has any level of competence to handle this situation in a satisfactory manner?
     
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    Trump is now claiming Venezuela hacked into the 2020 election and CIA operatives worked with Venezuela to steal the election.

    What the **** happened to America. How are you MAGA @Astrodome not utterly embarrassed of your cult hero. Jesus what a joke hes making America
     
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    How do we explain to the woke knuckle heads in here that there is a reason why 8 million Venezuelans left their country when the communists took over the government?
     
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    Be careful breh, an extraction team is probably headed your way.
     
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    It's the end of the world as we know it [REM]

    In Europe, there has been speculation that Trump could attempt to acquire or even invade Greenland as a symbolic gesture marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.

    There is no panic, however. Still, this would constitute a clear red line: crossing it would make neither Europe nor the United States safer, and would only undermine the alliances meant to keep them secure.
     
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    This was never about anything other than Oil and to help his donors get wealthier. All the chest bumping from our folks who support this don't quite understand that this admin does not care about us, they care about the rich.

    Distract, Distract, distract...........................on deck is Cuba, Columbia and then on to Greenland and the spinless gop controlled congress will do NOTHING. Riddle me this, sure we pick on the little guy, why not go after the big boys who are bad? Maduro is EVIL but so is Putin and Xi and tubby over in NK

    We nothing more than a bully, and we want Venezuela's lunch money
     
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    What you mean theres no panic? Bruh its the only thing anyone is talking about right now in Denmark . Are you reading the newspaper? I'm literally here right now lol

    https://cphpost.dk/
     
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    The fact that he wasn't tells us something pretty big here:

    The military brass refused to do this mission if it was illegal... which it clearly was on its face.

    The emphasis Kegsbreth kept on making about this being a law enforcement mission is important (and my jaw hit the floor when Trump gave up the game and just admitted the true intent). FBI & DEA officials being part of the raid is important. Again.. I'm pretty sure Kegsbreath and Trump just get all of his strategy from the movie Sicario.

    The reason he wasn't killed on site, or sent to Gitmo seems pretty clear after looking at things in context. The military must have stood up at some point and said, this will be illegal, and the lawyers stepped in and found a legal loophole rationale they could not disobey.

    After the military did their bidding under false pretense, and Trump rubbed it in their faces, you have to wonder if General Raising Canes or whatever his name is, and the other military leaders who were lied to and used here will think twice next time about being pawns in Trump's illegal schemes.
     
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    As I noted earlier, I think the movie Sicario is a better template for their strategy they are inspired by.

    Also I wanted that Jack Ryan show to be good, but I could not keep interest to save my life. Not sure how many diet cokes Trump has to drink first to stay awake for that one.
     
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