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This is an absolutely terrible idea.

Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

I mean given that he is constitutionally barred from re-election what exactly can you call this other than legalized bribery?

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

In authoritarian regimes, underlings signal loyalty to the ruler by publicly attesting to obviously false claims

See, it’s not hard to denounce this and toe it into the larger pattern of criminality.

Time to reup the real National Security Strategy:

look at some point you gotta face the fact that not everything is a distraction from everything else and there’s just a lot of bad stuff going on all the time

again, every Democrat has not in fact done this by any stretch of the imagination, and there have been multiple statements - here's a few - www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/art... - that condemn this unequivocally but sure, if you just lie about it you can feel fine saying both sides are the same.

Just incredible meme potential #2: "You are barely smart enough to breathe"

Proud to present this pictorial thread of Jamelle Bouie insulting you #1: You're a dumbass

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weird how much power mitch mcconnell had when he had no power

The Trump regime repeatedly lied to Congress about their intention to pursue regime change in Venezuela. They didn’t get Congressional approval for regime change, but did it anyway. Demanding a briefing in response is both pathetic and nonsensical. Calling for impeachment is the obvious response.

I don’t know what moment Chuck Schumer is made for, but it sure as shit isn’t this one.

Chuck Schumer has got to go.

America is not going to be rescued from utter fascism by Democrats, at least not those currently in power.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

It's crystal clear: a pending criminal indictment does NOT cure the clear illegality of this attack under int'l law. It violated the UN Charter in just the same way Russia's attack on Ukraine did. And unlike our 1989 Panama invasion, there seems not even a pretense of a threat to Americans there.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

I think the key to this version of US imperialism is the interaction of 1 and 2 here

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Anything from Chuck and Hakeem yet?

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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

No Kings. No War.

This is illegal and unconstitutional. Congress should swiftly take action to rein in this regime but won’t because Republicans are cowards. So Dems should be loudly escalating opposition to the regime. No Kings, No Wars.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

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Good example of what every elected Dem and candidate should be saying loudly right now:

Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target

an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim

This is immoral, illegal, and insane.

(My credentials on this include leaving a good job at a media outlet whose owner was similarly attempting to curry favor and whose leaders pronounced that one priority would be to show love for America.)