• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    If my history serves me correct … America is about to tell everyone that Venezuela fired first or attacked them in some way and killed American service men … and now the US has no choice but to defend itself -> by attacking and invading the country.

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      5 hours ago

      We would not invade, they would blow shit up, blow up their infrastructure, bomb them. Even they are not stupid enough to do an invasion at this point in time.

      What they would do is try to seduce a faction of the army to initiate a coup, maybe in that case we might contribute some troops to a specific action to help. I don’t think these guys are capable enough to pull that off though.

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      10 hours ago

      …only to lose the subsequent war 10 years down the road but never admit they lost because they only withdrew their army since the country is safe again (AKA they already taken as much oil as they possibly can so they are no longer interested in waging a war).

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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        I have to wonder, are you and people like you just making a common joke? Or do you really think the US extracted oil from Afghanistan? Because they didn’t. They used the invasion to strong arm OPEC; but they themselves didn’t take oil. It wasn’t about increasing oil supply.

        The US grew heroin there instead. And only left when stronger synthetics (fentanyl) made heroin unprofitable.

        • hector@lemmy.today
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          The government and taxpayers did not receive a single benefit from Iraq or Afghanistan despite paying for it all.

          And yes true to form the CIA used money from the drug trade to pay for Black Ops we can presume.

          But that does not mean that our political leaders and their donor Pals did not get oil from Iraq. All gains are privatized and kicked back to the polits.

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          I was under the impression that the point was to decrease the oil supply to force people to buy more American oil.

      • hector@lemmy.today
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        Too long that poor oil has been held down, segregated, just because it is heavy crude with a high sulfur content It suffers rampant bigotry.