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Because our president is a dumbass and didn’t get the Nobel prize.
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Submitted 1 day ago by notreallyhere@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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BingBong@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Pechente@feddit.org 1 day ago
Toddler destroys someone’s sand castle because you didn’t buy him the ice cream he wanted.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
While the >70 million who voted for him twice are geniuses. But sure, Trump is the dumbass.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Oil
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
There’s probably more than one reason, but an important reason I want to outline is the war that’s predicted to happen in 2027 or 2028: China vs. USA, sparked by Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Venezuela is allied with China, has weapons, and is within range of the Panama Canal. The canal will be very important during the war, as it will be the route that Atlantic naval ships take to get to the war zone. China would lean on Venezuela to target, damage, and possibly shut-down the canal, dramatically increasing US supply lines and down-time for ship repairs & updates. Most of our ship capacity is on the east coast.
Everything the US does now is with an eye on this possible war. It is the reason why the Biden administration didn’t get more involved in the defense of Ukraine. The US fears getting bogged down in a second war when the war against China starts. Here, with Venezuela, we took out a significant threat quickly and made the canal more secure. Yes, there’s oil, ego, distractions, and other reasons … but don’t discount the role this future conflict plays.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Any War With China is fearmongering and a way to siphon even more funds to the military industrial complex.
There will be no war between the US and China. Neither country has the resources or staging ground to do any meaningful damage to the other. And in the (increasingly likely) event China attacks Taiwan or Japan? Russia invaded Ukraine how many times? And we STILL didn’t care until it looked like Ukraine could hold out for a bit. There will be tutting and calls for sanctions and that is it.
And if things DO escalate to the point of actual conflict between nations? That is when the nukes get launched.
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They both have the capability of dealing immense damage to each other. There won’t be a war between China and the US because both have nukes and orbital class rockets.
Steve@communick.news 1 day ago
Lots of people say oil. Even Trump himself says it’s about the oil. Since Trump says oil it’s a good bet, it’s got nothing to do with oil. Remember Trump just says what he wants people to think, he doesn’t care about the truth. And Maduro already promised Trump all the oil he wants at whatever price he wants. So it’s not oil.
I’ve heard a hypothesis suggesting that it’s being pushed by Marko Rubio and a contingent of Cuban Americans (mostly in Florida), who’ve wanted to take down the Cuban government for decades. They view Venezuela as a stepping stone, proof of concept in that direction. It’s a test. A test of both what we can do, and how the world will react. If it goes well, Cuba will be next soon.
That idea sounds actually plausible to me.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
why do cuban americans want to take down the cuban government
BrambinagStoneboots@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They are cuban americans because of the cuban government.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Does Cuba have oil? Do they export illegal drugs? There really don’t seem to be any similarities
I’d buy Ukraine more as a prelude to regime change in Cuba. Russia may be falling apart but they still have nuclear weapons and historically defended Cuba. Drimp beeded to return to his master saying Ukraine agreed to cede territory in return for peace, so his master gives the go ahead to attack cuba
zabadoh@ani.social 1 day ago
Or Mexico, or China, for supplying drug precursor chemicals.
Nope, it’s desperation by Trump to distract from his low popularity polling, by using the “Wag The Dog” “wartime president” strategy.
That, combined with his Republican American corporate backers taking over Venezuelan oil to boost their declining profits.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Why do Americans blame supply and never the crazy high demand?
You could eliminate 100% of narcotics and America will just drink pain thinner, or worse, Jack Daniels.
zabadoh@ani.social 1 day ago
Helping people not be corporate wage slaves would be socialism.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Big animal beats small animal
Big country beats small country
Same tale as always
Why that small country specifially? Some heritage foundation guys whispered it in the emperor’s ears so the emperer then repeated what was said.
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 1 day ago
OK but why does that foundation care?
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
the heritage foundation penned the “project 2025” document, which is what donny boy has been following to the letter since day one in power.
aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some heritage foundation guys whispered it in the emperor’s ears
I believe it was Marco Rubio specifically. He believes that toppling Venezuela will lead to a reverse domino effect that somehow magically ends up toppling the Communist regime in Cuba.
msokiovt@lemmy.today 1 day ago
It’s a distraction because the CIA is the world’s biggest drug trafficking cartel in the world, and he isn’t touching that. It’s another contrived enemy of the American people created by the Trump Administration, but someone higher up (not Netanyahu, by the way) called for it.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s what the USA does. Trump is just keeping it old school by having the army do it. During Obama, three Latin American presidents were removed by US-sponsored coups, one was carried out by the military, but they have a strategy of funneling money to USA-aligned parties through “think tanks”, then gaining control of Congress. So if people elect a president the USA doesn’t like, Congress takes power on bogus claims and changes the policies for what the USA wants. If this fails the USA sponsor the military to take power. They carried out a congressional coup during Biden as well, along with a failed military coup.
It doesn’t matter if democrats or republicans are in power, the USA steals the resources from poor countries.PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
My country, for example, became energy self-sufficient in 2015, the next year the congress removed the president just because they had the majority. We used to have cheap gas because our internal price was linked to production cost and not international markets, the new government thought it was unfair to the free market competition because our own gas was so cheap here, so it started to subsidize American oil companies so they could sell it cheaper and compete with our own oil… yeah, you read that right, we were literally funneling tax payer money to foreign companies just so they could take our companies out of the market so the government could claim they weren’t profitable and should be sold to American investors… thanks Obama.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Capitalism as/is a suppression power.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He’s live on air right now talking about how “we’re going to run the country” and all the oil that’s gonna get pumped and how his buddies are gonna get rich
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
There are a lot of oil-related reasons his handlers have convinced him to do it. But I’d wager the reason Trump is doing it is to take focus off of the Epstein files. With the new evidence that Trump sent underage girls to Epstein, it seems very likely we’ll find out Trump was actively part of organized trafficking.
Trump is not a smart person, but he knows what works. Whenever things aren’t going his way, he will escalate and distract, delay reckoning until everyone has moved on.
chocrates@piefed.world 1 day ago
Oil companies want to rape the land of resources.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Cheap oil to fuck over Texas.
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He admitted it was about oil. Which is hilarious because venezuelan oil is DOGSHIT and they live off exporting it to other countries so they can refine it, and modernizing their equipment to refine it on-site would take 20 years. So he pretty much just overthrew a nation for no reason.
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The villages are mined the contract’s been signed
We’ll tell you one more time WE WANT YOUR OIL
Supply no longer guaranteed we demand security
Running out of Texas tea WE WANT YOUR OIL
Children of the CIA we want somewhere new to play
Better get right out the way WE WANT YOUR OIL– Asian Dun Foundation - Oil
tomiant@piefed.social 1 day ago
BigBenis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
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lpyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 1 day ago
I don't fucking know.
I just put it into the ever-growing pile that says "Because it is fucking Trump". Because that insecure piece of shit will do anything - anything, he feels he wants. And until we have a government with a spine that will actually impeach his ass and mean it, what else can we say?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Because for a variety of reasons the oil and gas markets are way oversupplied and Trump is trying to at least temporarily kick Venezuela out of the supply side to keep prices high.
Allero@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Oil
Also an easy win to boost reputation among MAGA folks
mossberg590@lemmy.world 1 day ago
- Distraction from Epstein and failing policies
- So he can be a bully and play act as a soldier. A “uniform” for the President will probably be next complete with medals
- Personal gain. That oil will need a company to manage it. His suggestion will be a chefs 💋
- No repercussions. Venezuela didn’t have any real allies. No religious fervor that will spawn terrorism.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Imperialism for reasons of targeting a China ally, Oil, Rare earth minerals, to better strangle Cuba, to protect the dollar, Marco Rubio’s sudo religious fear of left wing Latin American countries and so many more.
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This sums it up nicely: youtube.com/shorts/hQN98kIwgAk
Strocker89@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Multiple reasons: Oil profits in the US Trump is in the Epstein field as a pedophile and accomplice to infant murder Trump has terrible poll ratings.
He wants to increase the first and distract from the other two.
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Take your pick: oil, trumps feeling were hurt by the Peace Prize committee, oil, trump trying to shore up support, oil, trump seeing just how much he can get away with, trumps ego, and maybe oil.
kboos1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t forget Epstein distraction
CountVon@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This, and also maybe oil.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
There is nothing to distract from. They just hope you’ll keep talking about that to fill the space and distract form ACTUAL WAR.
What tf do you even expect the files to do? It’s not like people don’t know everything in them already.
Mothra@mander.xyz 1 day ago
All this sounds plausible, but, have you considered oil?
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
An interesting thought but there’s also oil.
ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I think you all are confused. It’s not oil. I mean, it’s not just any oil. It’s the most beautiful, cleanest and perfect American oil, that just happens to reside under Venezuelan soil.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also possibly oil.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ah, oil, the Black Gold. Also consider the other resource, the gold gold.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Trumps gutting of the little environmental progress that the US made only helps to make oil even more expensive and in demand for his brazen thefts. That may be a coincidence to him but to his handlers it’s not.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 day ago
You forgot: normalize Russians Indian of Ukraine and place Europe in a difficult diplomatic position that threatens to isolate them from the US.