Trump said that Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, would help the United States run Venezuela. She quickly said the opposite.
Trump said Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and would act as a partner in letting the United States run the country.
“She’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” he said.
Less than two hours later, Ms. Rodríguez — who was Nicolás Maduro’s vice president — delivered a televised address to Venezuela that made clear she viewed the United States as an illegal invader that must be rejected.
I’m an American and believe the nations of the world should sanction us into economic ruin over this (and everything else from the last year).
Nah. Just a targeted police action to arrest the rogue elements who purport to be the lawfully elected government.
They’d be justified in sanctions, but I don’t think that it would actually accomplish anything. The people doing this shit don’t give a flying fuck about them because it would hurt you and me, not them.
I support bombing both DC and Mar a Lago. Or, just bomb one of the golf courses he’s at. He’s such an easy target for anyone that wants to kill him.
If only he took less stimulants so that he stood still enough for that nice young man from Pennsylvania
Such a nice young man. A little more training was all he needed.
I’m not a fan of anyone killing him but what if a country captures him and puts him on trial?
He’s already proven he’s okay with that.
They already have that covered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act
As far as I know the US is charging Maduro domestically so what’s stopping another country from doing the same with Trump?
The US military.
That’s 50% of the electorate.
Not really, although they want you to believe that. In reality, over a third of registered voters abstained from voting in 2024.
More people didn’t vote than voted for either candidate.
That was a vote for Trump.
I got bad news for you about that dumb ass third that wouldn’t turn out for democrats anymore than republicans. You’d likely get the same numbers. They didn’t vote for a reason. They either didn’t like either that much or they ate dumb as shit on a brick. The former may vote dem slightly more but the latter would be influenced in the election line by the dumb shits passing out flyers, and they are more often republicans from what I’ve seen.
People that checked out will not vote the way you fucking think.
The only way to get to them is to make them fucking uncomfortable. That’s it.
A lot of them are self-proclaimed leftists who have no practical sense of realpolitik, and are so focused on their purity tests that they’ll never put forward a viable candidate.
A lot of them bought into the tiktok propaganda that Biden and Harris were responsible for Gaza, while ignoring how much worse it would get under trump. They simply (and rabidly) accused anyone who supported the Democrats of being complicit in genocide.
This time there’s not an incumbent democrat, so hopefully the same people will blame the current administration and vote accordingly. That is, if the entire hype wasn’t socially engineered by the US’s adversaries to get trump elected so he could weaken the country…
A robust Democratic primary will also help reduce boycott voters, although some will likely always complain that the nominee isn’t perfect enough for their liking. That can’t be helped.
But at least some of the fence-sitting centrists will come out in force against trump, since it’s so obvious how shitty everything is.
So I think there’s still hope. As long as states maintain control of their own elections and keep them free and fair…
They voted for “whoever the other guys want.”
50% of the electorate wouldn’t be hurt by sanctions, or 50% of the electorate would be arrested?
In either case, I’m referring to the president, his staff and cabinet. People actually directly making decisions who won’t see any consequences from sanctions.
Dictators around the world are getting too comfortable. They’re seeing too many examples of other dictators getting away with war crimes, illegal invasions, and other atrocities.
Putin emboldened Netanyahu, Netanyahu emboldened trump, and I don’t even want to think about who’s going to feel emboldened by trump.
Rules based order, multilateralism, and international law seem to be crumbling with no enforcement. Arguably the greatest achievements of the twentieth century, disappearing like vapor…
Xi Jinping. Taiwan is next, especially if this goes south and fixes the US naval assets in place for a prolonged period.
There is only one China. How can China invade itself lmao
There’s a bandit regime in Beijing that want’s to attack the Chinese people living on Formosa Island.
There is only one China and Taiwan isn’t a part of it.
There’s only one China and the Mainland isn’t a part of it
I think the Taiwanese government would disagree.
If they are part of one China why do they have a separate government?
I think you’re showing your lack of knowledge on the subject with this comment.
It’s well-known that both governments claim sovereignty over all of China, and both include Taiwan as part of that. Just this is claimed less strongly when the KMT aren’t in power.
Many people on the island want the status quo, or independence, but others also want some form of reunification. Opinions are varied.
The official position still is that there is one China. (The government in Taiwan even claims the 9 dash line in the south China sea lol)
They still use an 11 dash line IIRC
Yeah but everyone knows the official position is bullshit.
Do you understand the difference between De Jure and De Facto? Maybe look up what those means because you’re showing a lack of knowledge of how anything works in the world.
Taiwan is de jure a part of China but it is a de facto an independent country. China has an authoritarian government that gets butt hurt over every little thing. So the One China policy is all about them “saving face”.
Maybe read up on strategic ambiguity as well if you want to be more knowledgeable about the subject.
TLDR, Taiwan is a country. A lot of diplomacy is about piling on layers upon layers of bullshit, because bullshit is preferable to war. But unless you’re working for a country as a diplomat, there’s no need for bullshit… Taiwan is a country.
They say they don’t - the rest of China does.
There are many Special Administrative regions of China like Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. They are still China.
I’m pretty sure Taiwan doesn’t think they’re the same China as the mainland.
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If they don’t, Greenland will be next.
This is starting to smell like appeasement real fast.
It’s impossible for any western country to sanction the US, we are 100% dependent on US payment processing, trade in USD and US security guarantees (which even if questionable are better than nothing).
It is possible for China to start selling US government bonds, essentially refusing to lend the US money and hold its debt. But I don’t think they’ll do it as a sanction for this event. They’ll do it when they think it’s optimal for their own plans. When a US president needs punishment from their perspective. The current president, from their perspective, doesn’t need punishment because he’s making enemies all over South America and shouldn’t be disturbed while doing that.
As for European countries, I am fairly confident that US defense industry is already frustrated by inability to sell long-term projects. Ukraine will buy what it can right away, but others will think twice. By the way, I’ve got an F-35 to sell you… but you’re only allowed to use it for US-approved conflicts. ;)
Having access to an additional 20% of global oil reserves will likely increase demand for US debt.
Probably after the upcoming ‘Democracy for Cuba’ campaign.
Not for very much longer.
Use China’s CIPS system for payment processing, trade in Euro or Yuan, buy gold instead of US treasuries.
Won’t happen. NATO/Europe still depends on the US .
In the short term, yes. In the long term, everyone is moving away from the US. The US has declined significantly in the last year, and that decline will continue because while everyone is still saying the US is an ally, we all know the US is really an adversary now. It’s not going to be a big event that will register for brain rotted Americans that have no attention span. It’s something that will change year over year.
It’s just not in our best interests to openly antagonize Trump at the moment. Trump is an old man and he won’t live forever, but the impact of the things he’s done and the inaction of the American people means the US will not be trusted by any country for generations.
So, the thing is… all the nations that care will be financially ruined trying that.
Which would strengthen their enemies…
And they know that.
Geopolitics has consequences. What some see as endless wars others see as opportunity to practice a long held human tradition. War.
It’s a skill you lose if you don’t practice.
Today we were told once again the west is dead. Long live America, and the west… is the western hemisphere. It belongs to the USA. America owns everything on this continent. They keep telling us that. Who is going to stop them when Russia tells Europe… guess who provides you the oil that runs your great nations. Sure would be a shame to leave you in the dark. China gets the rest. Unified, finally.
The new world order.
“The revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it to be”
Can’t believe this is the history we got.
As an American, I believe that we need to come together ASAP and form a police task force to remove the regime by legitimate, democratic means. It’s called its shots: The regime has said that it intends to eliminate 100 million Americans.
By deportation for now. Let’s not wait for its final solution.
Afraid we’re too far gone, Biden blew our last chance at holding these people accountable. At this point it’s going to take internal economic collapse and likely external war to end this.
Not being cynical! But that’s my take from modern history.
I think that you are correct, as building a coalition outside of the now-thoroughly-broken system is a heavy lift. But dammit, what would we be if we don’t at least try?
What? Could you link me the quote for that. 100 million? Surely this can’t be a number they said.
There is no way 1/3 of the population are there illegally (their justification for removing them), right?
May the multiverse gods have mercy on our timeline…
Here’s a link to an article. As the reporter here points out, 100 million is suspiciously close to the number of nonwhite people in the U.S.
Holy balls.
Really hoping the Americans realise they need to rise up like yesterday. The world is so screwed. The US is far, FAR more militarily powerful than Nazi Germany ever was.
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Fine. What do YOU, as a citizen of a rogue state, do to stop all this?
I march, I vote, I speak out, I financially support the opposition and legal causes trying to stop this shit, and I ask for help. There’s not much else I can do short of violence, and even that’s not a viable option since the non-GOP party decided guns were bad and convinced their supporters to disarm themselves.
Stfu yankee
Fix your own fucking country.
Brother, a South African Billionaire poured all the money he could into the last election until it was broken. An Australian media mogul set the stage for this with 30 years of propaganda and Europe themselves built a system of reliance on America, all of which were necessary steps to getting here. This doesn’t happen without Fox news, without Elon Musk, or without Europe being so entangled in the US they can barely enact any sanctions without destroying their own countries.
And we let them do it
I don’t remember having a say in Citizens United, or the defense contracts of other countries. I can say I’ve voted for every politician on my ballot that promised to challenge CU and/or reduce military spending though. But those votes aren’t always democrats so half the time people tell me I waste my vote for it.
Yea, they keep lying to us about how ” The other “ is to blame if you don’t vote a certain way.
And i mean, at this point the damned outcome doesn’t feel much different in the end.
Voting isn’t the only say you have in your nation. I heard so much about how the second amendment is to prevent tyranny. Tyranny is here.
How do you imagine the second amendment being used going? Tell me specifically what you’re asking for because training and organizing takes time, so do plans against a military your country is deathly afraid of, but if what you want is random people shooting in the streets just say so, because that’s easy but leads to Trump declaring Martial Law. So I really want to know what exactly do you want to see?
What I really want to see is Americans forming resistance communities, educating themselves, organizing, and preparing for a revolution in the United States. As non-violent of a revolution as is possible. I want to see class consciousness, solidarity and compassion spreading and community building. I want to see worker and housing co-operatives starting up to build an alternative to the state and capitalism. I want to see those resistance communities work together to establish an alternative currency.
My second choice would be a civil war.
Poor powerless stupid Americans, but responsible for anything they country does.
Grow the fuck up.
All I’ve said is we’re not the only ones who need to change which is pretty unarguable. It’s so strange seeing people misinterpret that the second they feel called out. Why is it controversial for the top level commentor to ask for sanctions, aka ask for other people to aslo not support a war mongering country? Is that not what we all agreed was best to do to Russia? Or would sanctioning the US inconvenience you too much?
Your country was founded on stolen land and has a history of doing this throughout your history. The nazis were inspired by your nation.
Stop blaming everyone else, take accountability, and accept that your country has to change itself.
Edit: So it seems this touched a nerve. I just wanted to edit to add that, of course, America isn’t the only evil empire, it’s just, at present, the worst evil empire.
Americans are, in my experience, very firmly in denial about the history of their nation, wanting to act like Trump is acting in some unprecedented way. He isn’t, at all. This won’t end when Trump is deposed. You need to change the spirit of your people.
You are not alone in that, of course, but we all need to admit it.
The US needs to change and so does much of the rest of the world. The two aren’t mutually exclusive and much of the problem as it now exists can only take this current visage because of both national and international groundwork laid before. Whether or not this country is capable of positive change, that change alone would not be enough to prevent this from happening again. We know this because, in different ways and at varying levels of effectiveness, what is happening in the US is also happening in a plethora of places all around the world, right this moment, for basically all of the same reasons and purposes.
As the person you responded to already illustrated, the problem is larger than any one country, and looking away from that is just as in the way of progress as the countless shitheads among my own countrymen who refuse to stand up against what cruelties this nation is currently enacting.
So, yes. US citizens definitely do need to do their part. We have a lot of shit to sort over here. But that doesn’t make it helpful to pretend that we are the only number in this elaborate equation. The wealthy dirtbags who’ve put us all in this position benefit off of treating it as such, as this allows them the same freedom to keep at it, but this certainly does not make it true. If the US were to properly fall and the current administration was erased along with it, do you really think this problem would be over? Don’t you think the stateside billionaires pushing for all of this would just leave and continue on elsewhere? And what of those who ar not and never were based here?Us dipshit US rednecks aren’t stopping all of them from all of that, no matter how this all ends up going down. Not on our own, at the very least. Because, in spite of our outsized effect on the globe, the problem is much larger than just us.
Fucking hot take from someone that doesn’t think about the stupid shit they say.
So my family is here literally because both grandparents escaped the Nazis. I’m not fucking here because of genocide in america, im here because of genocide in europe!
A genocide EUROPEANS didn’t handle let alone Germany!
Your words are meaningless. You don’t think about what America IS. Who really lives here!
That’s BEFORE the fact everyone took advantage of our military might while telling their citizens how much better they were because look at the cheap healthcare and education!
While they peep on the data of millions for the eyes of the surveillance state that is the USA in secret. For shame on everyone.
America is a fucking joke. Every American is at fault for all of the ills of the world. So fucking easy to be you, isn’t it? Offload all that bandwidth to people you don’t know, to think you’re above over a hundred million people. More people than most countries have in the usa and are against this. They vote in people who lied to them about leading them through this. All of our fucking allies helped in this charade!
Everyone is to fucking blame.
You are jumping to so many conclusions, I haven’t claimed any of those things you seem to think I have.
The USA isn’t alone and pretty much every country sucks. But the USA is the ruling country of the American Empire and it has been for nearly a century.
Honestly, I think you’re just getting angry from the cognitive dissonance.
Just accept that your nation is the bad guys and that you need to change it. Yes, other people need to change too.
Honestly though, it’s probably not going to matter, the US is in decline and pretty much is going to collapse soon.
There were only Native Americans before America was ‘founded’, so who exactly stole it, remind me?
I’m not trying to defend Europe. I am just pointing out that US Americans are responsible for the actions of the US, and that you should take responsibility for those actions.
Your argument is kind of like trying to blame any crimes I commit on my great great grandfather. You have agency.
You can be proud of your history, or ashamed of it. I am ashamed of my European nation for what it has done in the past. I believe that my country is a terrible place and has done terrible things. I would rejoice to see it dissolved and the rulers held accountable. I would cheer to see our entire government put on trial.
That was not my argument, that was the argument of the person I replied to when they decided the US being stolen was relevant. I literally only asked who stole it, that’s is. There were no Americans until the American revolution. Just Natives and European colonists.
The implication is obvious: Americans didn’t steal land, Europeans did! Then those Europeans became Americans so you can wash your hands of it.
It’s your ancestors. It’s your legacy. You benefitted from it.
Take accountability. I am not blaming you for it, but you are living in the consequences of it. In much the same way that the Japanese want to deny their WWII atrocities, US Americans want to deny their atrocities.
Global problems need global solutions, and the current American government is absolutely a global problem.
The whole world is sick of America trying to fix the world because we fuck up everything we touch. You really want us fixing this shit ourselves?
They don’t have the stomach for it. They can’t inconvenience themselves enough to stop it, either. All that American hate is projection.
Germany didn’t.
Sorry according to our Supreme Court money is more important than people in the usa… And the president is allowed to do anything which only gop ones seem to care about