Merged Peace President invades Venezuela,/U.S. Forces Capture Maduro

[Jack by the hedge]

Regarding whether the security detail killed in Maduro's abduction were any part of the Venezuelan army, BBC reports Cuba mourning "32 of its citizens" killed in the raid.

Venezuela latest updates: Trump issues warning to Rodríguez ahead of her swearing in

Venezuela's deposed president Nicolás Maduro is set to appear in a New York court on Monday.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Colombia is already a US ally. Its military already gets US training and US equipment to fight narcoterrorists within its borders. The Colombian government isn't the problem.

Greenland and Denmark are also allies. Greenland lets the US base whatever military forces and early warning systems there the US requires. Greenland has no "narcoterrorists".

Greenland isn't a problem, yet still, somehow, it's a problem.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Humpty Trumpty will have a great fall, so great that not even the Supremes can ignore it.

 

[Andy_Ross]

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

https://bsky.app/profile/ericumansky.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3mbnh6bn4v22v

 

[Andy_Ross]

FIFA must be so glad they gave Donald a fake peace prize and avoided getting invaded and kidnapped themselves.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Fix up the oil first.
No planning at all

Reporter: Are you going to demand that Delcy Rodriguez allow opposition figures to return or free any political prisoners?

Trump: We haven't gotten to that. Right now, we want to do is fix up the oil

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008004328674730265

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Trump says US is in charge of Venezuela.
If that means US troops on the ground...

I'm increasingly convinced it won't mean US troops on the ground. Security will be in the hands of Venezuelan troops.

I'm really unconvinced by those rumours that Machado would be in power now if only she had turned down "Trump's" Nobel peace prize. I think Trump doesn't greatly care who the figurehead is so long as they do as they're told, and if his new business partners, the Venezuelan army, think Rodriguez is the right choice for a smooth transition to their new arrangement, then she gets the job.

The idea that this all hinges on Trump's petulant whims sounds like an assumption that no other interests are involved here, when there's a lot at stake for US oil companies as well as for for Venezuela and its oil customers, like Cuba for example.

 

[Andy_Ross]

The oil companies were informed about an act of war before it happened, Congress was not.

Reporter: Did you speak with the oil companies before the operation? Did you tip them off?

Trump: Before and after. They want to go in and they’re going to do a great job.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008001198474076559

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Fix up the oil first.
No planning at all

Reporter: Are you going to demand that Delcy Rodriguez allow opposition figures to return or free any political prisoners?

Trump: We haven't gotten to that. Right now, we want to do is fix up the oil

No interest in that crap at all. Just the oil. Stop the country descending into chaos, sure, because that would get in the way of getting the oil. But it's the oil, stupid.

 

[Andy_Ross]

This is not interventionism, it's just taking back what they stole

Graham: This is not interventionism. We're going to be more prosperous because of the business deals.

Trump: The oil companies are going to go in… and we’re taking back what they stole. They took our oil

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008009785686508025

 

[Andy_Ross]

No interest in that crap at all. Just the oil. Stop the country descending into chaos, sure, because that would get in the way of getting the oil. But it's the oil, stupid.

The US military will protect the oil installations of course. They don't care about the rest of it

I disagree with you about American 'boots on the ground ' This isn't over by a long way, it's going to get messy.

Send lawyers, guns and money, the ◊◊◊◊ has hit the fan.

 

[Andy_Ross]

It's official, Cuba!

Graham: You just wait for Cuba. Their days are numbered.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008002803072106724

 

[Jack by the hedge]

It's like 130 years ago when America's mood was that what its national virility needed to perk it up was a good ol' war. And Cuba was in the crosshairs then too.

That's going to get horribly, horribly messy if they decide to invade and occupy it.

 

[Helen]

Clean, beautiful oil, grabbed with our grubby, ugly hands.

 

[Andy_Ross]

It's about peace on earth apparently

Reporter: Would you say that this was about oil or it was about regime change?

Trump: It's about peace on earth.

Reporter: How is it peace on earth?

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008009978431619252