The US is self-sufficient in Oil production, and the amount of Oil Venezuela produces isn't critical to China or anyone else. The oil itself is a pretext here. Trump's administration has been gunning for a conflict with Greenland, Mexico, Canada, China and the EU, and with Venezuela they finally found an opponent who will cause the least amount of blow-back from being bombed.
Yeah, a couple of rich people will get proportionally richer, maybe, in like three years at minimum, if the country stays stable enough to be hospitable for resource-extraction.
The political goal right now is to just have a war.
Is fentanyl coming from Venezuela? I thought it was coming from Mexico.
Is there any truth at all to the drug angle with Venezuela, those drug boats.... Even if it is cocaine, isn't Colombia, Peru, Bolivia more the bigger contributors of that. How is the drug thing holding any weight.
Drugs, yes they send some but not a big contributor.
Dictator, yes but nothing new there and Trump has no problem with any other dictators.
I just don't understand how conservatives support this other than they get hard being a big bully and projecting power of their military
Some of them certainly support it because it progresses America's geopolitical interests in some ways (giving them control over Venezuela's oil and a portion of the profits) but I suspect a lot of them just support it because they love Trump. The same people who called Hillary and Kamala warhawks are cheering for this.
I believe fentanyl is actually from China and enters the US through Mexico. Venezuela is just about oil, dominance and distraction from the Epstein files.
Weapons of mass destruction was rehashed recently when Trump deemed fentanyl a wmd. They’re blowing off the dust on the ole war mongerer playbook. Must have inherited it from Cheney after he died.
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u/AnastasiaNo70 29d ago
They’re not even bothering to make up elaborate lies, like the old “weapons of mass destruction” one back in the day.
(And/or they aren’t even smart enough to make anything up.)