• mehquestion@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Just a reminder the Trump tried to organize a coup against Venezuela the last time he was in office (John Bolton, the national security advisor, said so in an interview)

    It was a soft coup in the guise of that guy: Juan Guido.

    He popped out of nowhere, months (maybe even a year) after Venezuela’s elections, with the US supporting him as the legitimate winner. And because the US does it, so do all the puppet European states.

    It was really confusing episode to me at the time. Only when Bolton’s interview came out did it make sense to me.

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      16 days ago

      Maduro was impeached and refused to step down. They didn’t need a coup, just to support the constitutional government.

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      16 days ago

      Getting added is easy with signal’s new userbame featuresJust change yours to Jack Daniels or Presidente and you’ll get added eventually by Pete Opsec

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    16 days ago

    There’s also oil in Guyana that America wants and Venezuela wants from Guyana, so Venezuela is bringing up an old claim to the Essiquibo region of Guyana to have access to the coast for oil. It’s always about oil. America already owned the politicians in Guyana and it’s a little harder to control Venezuela.

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    16 days ago

    The lesson we learned from the korean war and the vietnam war was that sticking our nose too far into other peoples business is always a great decision. Civilian casualties and traumatized youth give the military industrial conplex a chubby, and the federal government loves its war buddy.

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        16 days ago

        I thought there was something in the constitution that let the president suspend elections if the US is at war? If not, my bad, I must have misunderstood.

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          16 days ago

          We’ve had lots of elections in time of war. The major conflicts of the 20th century that resulted in a military draft century (WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam) all had Presidential election. Hell, there was an election during the US Civil War.

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          14 days ago

          You may be thinking of Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War?

          Constitution, Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2:

          The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

          Lincoln signed off on a law saying that the President could suspend the right under the same conditions.

  • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    It’s frankly shocking to learn how many weak, servile cowards there are among the US’s top generals.

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    16 days ago

    Them or Cuba are the easy, ideologically popular pickings, right? Instead, he’s been looking north, but that’s typical of his level of competence, I guess.

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      14 days ago

      Why do you think he wants Greenland??

      So that he can, with Alaska, Greenland, & the US Navy, extinguish all trade with Canada, so that he can convert us to his carrion, quicker ( he is getting older )…

      Once he’s “King of North America”, then between Putin & him, they can DESTROY the hated-by-both woke EU.

      Their temporary tiffs & difficulties ( Putin, Trump, Musk, Netanyahu, etc ), are only temporary, & the far-right will become coherent as they realize how fundamentally they hate their common-enemy: civil-rights.

      Then the world will turn, & their currently unconscious game will fully-deploy.

      Wait & see.


      Unconscious-strategy’s significant, in our world…

      Hamas’s unconscious-strategy’s going to work, too…

      They offered that Israel could genocide the Palestinians…

      …but the reaction against that, which will take a few years more to happen,

      will be when Israel’s “deterrent” no-longer deters Muslim anybody,

      because they’ll be surrounded by countries willing to risk EVERYthing for sake of annihilating Israel.

      Israel took the bait, & its psychopathy is carving its mark into the regional-population.

      They’re going to be annihilated, … late this-decade, from the looks of it.

      ( there is an unfulfilled Christian prophecy, Matt 24, about it, btw, if you consider there to be any significance in a Jew, benJoseph himself, prophecying the annihilation of Israel, in a way that no assault on Israel in history matches, but … now is guaranteed to happen, in only a few more years )

      & that is how unconscious-strategy can be playing its game, while surfacemind is scrambling helter-skelter, willy-nilly, in all directions, chaotically, mindlessly…


      Unconscious-mind’s reasoning is dangerous-as-hell to our world…

      All the national-identity which intends to “apocalypse” our world, because G-D’s going to exempt only-them from consequences, & glorify them, yet…

      that’s actually enacting, underlying our world’s current unfolding…

      The rip-current of socio-political tides…


      The key to seeing/understanding unconscious-strategy was given by “John Braddock” in his trilogy on thinking/strategy/risk…

      Solve which category-of-GAME each player is playing…

      Postive-sum, win-win-alliance, game, is healthiest…

      Zero-sum, competitive-narcissism, game, is presumed to be the ONLY game, among moneyarchy & concentration-of-wealth-archy, authority-archy, institution/legalism-archy, class-system-archy, etc.

      Negative-sum, competitive-nihilism, game, is mass-shooters, accelerationism, etc: ruling a portion of the world while enforcing the butchering of all others, is how one “wins” in that category-of-game. The greater the “importance”/“authority” & the greater of destruction-of-others, make one’s “score” in this category of game…

      Trump’s enforcing that there won’t every be any ruler of the US who tops him, & that means negative-sum game.

      He’s not firing individual-bullets-into-others, in his “mass-shooting”, he is firing legislations, destroying the lives of entire populations, in his “mass-shooting” of the US of A’s constitution & principles.

      He keeps escalating… has been for decades, … so why bother pretending surprise, as the “journalists” do, with their cultivated-and-pushed- incredulity at every escalation, helping to normalize them all…

      So, extrapolate the trend, & see what happens, keeping-in-mind that the vertical-scale ( cost of his mission’s action ) is logarithmic…

      He’ll declare war against Canada in 3y or less?

      Something like that.

      He’ll convert Canada to the Ukraine of the Americas.

      What’re we going to do about it?

      ( fight like hell! : )


      There’s 1 thing which “levels the playing-field”, though:

      He’ll be waging multiple wars, simultaneously: Southward, into other countries, internally, US Civil War Part2, AND with Canada…

      That gives us chance, if we are acting coherently, systematically, ruthlessly-effectively, now…

      I hope our leaders understand that…

      _ /\ _

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    15 days ago

    TBH I think he’s just sending ships all over the world so nobody forgets that they’re his, like big toys. I wonder what it costs to run all of these fleets like this?

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    15 days ago

    Bringing peace, freedom, and democracy to a bunch of stinky people! U! S! A!