• tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Don’t know if it’s true, but if it is, kinda funny that Trump’s CIA has been outsmarted by Venezuela.

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      2 months ago

      South Americans broadly have been dealing with the CIA for a long time. Even the Romans knew not to fight the same people too many times because they’ll get hip to your fighting style and they’ll eventually beat you at your own game.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah it’s a big claim, would be cool to eventually see evidence it was true but I’m not sure how they’d ever be able to prove it. I doubt anyone gets a wire transfer that just says it’s from the CIA

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    2 months ago

    I think Trump would love to start a war: distraction from the Epstein files, a nice scapegoat for economic hardship, the possibility to grab even more power under the guise of wartime emergencies, …

    Hell, if it takes long enough he could postpone the next election.

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      2 months ago

      Don’t be naive. Trump isn’t running anything.

      Trump struggled to name 20 animals in a row, dealer’s choice. Thought the dementia test was an IQ test, bragged that going past 10 animals was hard.

      “I took– Those are very hard– They’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump.”

      He continued, “Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don’t think Jasmine– The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.”

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    2 months ago

    It’s okay and responsible to be skeptical of the Venezuela’s governments claims but given past evidence this is hardly an extraordinary claim and would be hardly surprising.

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    2 months ago

    Staging a false flag attack on our own troops in order to manufacture consent for a war with the country holding the world’s largest oil reserves?

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    2 months ago

    “It is the same imperial script as the Maine ship and the Gulf of Tonkin: fabricating a conflict to impose interests alien to our region,” Pinto wrote in an online post on Telegram, according to Google Translate. “Venezuela is acting firmly and responsibly: a CIA-funded criminal cell linked to this covert operation is being dismantled on our territory."

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    2 months ago

    And hopefully treating the detainees as human beings rather than as third-rate beasts.