During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

#Peace 🙄🙄🙄 #dementia

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

This would require attacking a member of NATO, of course. Which makes Vance’s comments about France and Britain being potential threats to the U.S. all the more alarming.

US President Donald Trump threatens to invade and attack other countries: “We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us." #VenezuelaInvasion

1) Venezuela has a government. 2) This is being thrown together at the last minute by people who—amazing as it sounds—are even less intelligent, qualified, and competent than the GWBush-era dunces who tried to make imperialism happen in Iraq & Afghanistan and failed miserably. What could go wrong?

FLASHBACK — ELON: “With the new administration there’s less interest interfering with the affairs of other countries… America should mind its own business.”

Aging like gas station sushi in the blazing hot summer sun.

Big Oil spent millions and millions to get Trump elected. They’re getting a great return on their investment.

“Audacious” is a weird way to say “wildly illegal under both domestic and international law”

U.S. Senate Will Vote To Block Military Action Against Venezuela Next Week — HuffPost

🧵Hope everyone realizes that China invading Taiwan would be far worse than Trump seizing Venezuela. Venezuela only produces like 2% of world oil output, and there's plenty of idle capacity elsewhere. So it's pretty much irrelevant otherwise to the rest of the world's economy. But Taiwan...

what’s way more egregious imo is every major news outlet in the country putting out blatant propaganda about the success of the “surprise” operation

Several U.S. Air Force C-17 transport aircraft arrived in the UK. The purpose of the flights has not been confirmed. One of C-17A arrived at RAF Fairford from Campbell Army Airfield in Kentucky earlier tonight, and departed Fairford and is now on approach to land at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

At the end of Saturday, once I had some time to read and think, here was my first look at where we’re at and where we could go: www.lawdork.com/p/venezuela-...

How are Congressional Republicans allowing this pathetic man to supersede their power?

When the United States fucks around and later finds out, it's called "blowback" It would behoove those in the Trump administration to learn about their predecessors who, in their arrogance, thought their actions would have no costs but ended up prompting significant blowback they did not foresee.

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Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?

#Memphis #Venezuela

"The United States has now given Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to give it a try a road map for invading countries and capturing leaders who displease them, with a lawlessness that by comparison makes the 2003 invasion of Iraq seem as lawyered up as a bank merger."

They better take kids from MAGA families first for the draft.

Couldn’t make it to the big city so we did this in Hernando Mississippi.

#GVerse Massive march in NYC against #Shit4Brain's war on Venezuela

Happening now: several hundred people are pouring into Chicago's downtown Federal Plaza. It's 25 degrees outside. Organizers are leading the crowd in a chant of, "no boots on the ground, no bombs in the air!" Two protesters hold a large banner reading, "no war for Venezuela oil."

So the US will sell another country's oil and keep all the profits for its billionaires and expect Venezuelans to just sit there and accept it? Ok! Good luck! Oh BTW, I wonder what China, the number one buyer of Venezuelan oil, thinks about all this...

In 1973 the War Powers Act was passed with bipartisan support, further clarifying that the President of the United States may not enter into armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress, giving them at least 48 hours’ notice to make their decision. open.substack.com/pub/ellieleo...

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Great job y’all!!

Some of us are old enough to remember 1991. Same as it ever was.

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A lot of the people who said Trump wasn’t going to start a war and that’s why we should vote for him are now gonna say it’s good Trump started a war because he did it in a manly strong way

Yeah, it's bad that Trump's secure war room is just some curtains at his golf club, but he was going to reveal anything classified at some upcoming podcast interview anyway

And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

Q: Maduro refused to leave office when Venezuelans elected Eduardo González in 2024, so shouldn’t the U.S. allow him to assume the Presidency now? A: Yes, but Trump won’t want to relinquish control of the country until he’s profited from every barrel of oil that can be stolen.

The chief requirement to be a Republican lawmaker is a willingness to deny reality. Here's Rep. Darrell Issa saying Trump won't run Venezuela a couple hours after Trump explicitly said he would run Venezuela.

Trump, right after stealing Venezuela, and admitting he did it to reinstate US oil interests. "Cuba is a failing nation and we want to help the people." So, Cuba next, for the casino trade. The USA is being run by a gangster.

Thousands rally in Havana, Cuba, chanting “Down with imperialism” and declaring solidarity with Venezuela and President Maduro. Cuba’s president stood at the front of the rally. Next target?

Any other US president would talk about restoring freedom and democracy in Venezuela. Trump just comes right out and says, "I only care about the oil." This military operation wasn't done to free Venezuela. It was done so that Trump could turn it into a resource colony.

They legit threw up some curtains at MAL and are pretending this is secure. Jesus this is embarrassing.

Honest question. At what point did Venezuelan oil reserves cease belonging to the citizens of Venezuela and become the property of U.S. oil companies?

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

My full statement on Trump’s unconstitutional military operations in Venezuela:

This is definitely not a SCIF and, among many other things, this alone is a major national security breach. Random third rate intelligence agencies would have known about this attack before Congressional leaders did.

WAIT. HOLD UP WTF? Trump says American wants to run Venezuela with a transitional government until safe elections. Him and what army? He left the dictators senior commanders in charge. This ain’t going to happen. He changed leadership, not the regime

More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”

He's mad she won the Nobel Peace Prize and he didn't. That's it. That's what it's all about. Best part is she idiotically and sycophantically dedicated her prize to him and he still won't back her and prefers to publicly denigrate on a day like today.

While Donald Trump vastly expanded the CIA’s ability to act independently, they still do not have the authority to carry out land strikes in Venezuela. trib.al/KpnbH8K