This just makes any opposition to China doing the same thing to Taiwanese leadership that much more flimsy and hypocritical. Semiconductor access is far more important than Venezuelan oil, and that’s setting aside the moral implications of this move. Really dumb.
Taiwans only saving grace is the US couldn’t care less about hypocrisy when protecting it’s interests. The bad side is Taiwan is their intetest. Not their ally, not their partner, an American interest. To be used and discarded as soon as they’re no longer interesting.
Taiwan is a colony.
Nobody gives a shit about oil anymore now that we have alternatives, which could save the world, but cheeto wants so we get war and an absolutely devastated planet after, instead.
Yay!
I’m 42 and this will be my 3rd-ish forever war to live through, can I redeem it for a free ice cream cone?
They’re taking away everything from the working class. You’ll get nothing and like it because if you simp hard enough you just might be a billionaire someday. Lol
That’s 90% of people I work with say. “If we give Donny and the billionaires everything they want then they will give us everything back too!” The only thing we are going to get back from them is a bullet to the brain.
No.
You need 5 holes punched out from living through forever wars, not just 3. You got 2 more to go, bud.
I just turned 43 a week ago and would also like to know.
Nah just more crippling debt and a few points on your credit score.
As someone who grew up in the Iraq war era, there’s some striking differences here, but disturbing similarities.
The biggest difference is, although I see the cult of all ages still slurping on Trump’s pedophile cream, I see most Gen X to Zoomed fascists I know of being against the war in Venezuela. We didn’t have 9/11 to convince the population this was necessary. Just Trump’s bullshit lies about drugs.
Here’s where things are disturbingly the same: The same old fucks who vehemently supported the Iraq war for years and decades after it came to light Bush and Cheney lied about WMDs, are now all still cheering on the war in Venezuela. Every old fuck I’ve observed online is acting exactly as they did during the Iraq war. These pieces of shit never learned. They never wanted to learn. They are perpetually mentally stuck in the 1950’s image of America that was programmed in their minds irreparably.
The overall dynamics are fundamentally comparable.
Framing Iraq and Saddam as stockpiling weapons and being linked to Al Queda is exactly analogous to framing Venezuela and Maduro as linked to Americans struggling with drug addiction. Further, both invasions are blood for oil. The mechanics of imperialism remains broadly consistent.
Flight them over there, etc
Yeah, Venezuela is just Iraq. Jon Stewart had a great segment about this
Whenever there’s a Western imperialist power and someone else, the lesser evil/actual good is always that someone else. This rule can be applied now, but it’s been valid since at least the days of Rome.
So I wasn’t the ONLY one telling Hector not to fight Achilles and being laughed out of my own family.
some of my people are clowns. halloween was the day they didn’t dress up and they let their real selves out.
halloween 2003 i lived in a very conservative area. most conservative place i’ve visited. i figured the scariest thing they could imagine was an anti-war protestor. so i went as a hippie. most people got the joke being made at their expense and laughed with me. a couple of guys learned that protest signs are nailed together. good time was had by all.
