Foreign Policy

[ColoradoIrish]

Silly Colorado, it's not a war, it's a law enforcement operation. 🙄

Silly me

 

[RDU Irish]

Team America World Police - now paying in our hemisphere! I don't like it just like I didn't like the bombing of Iran last year. Really DGAF about the void left in Venezuela as it was a disaster from the start. Seems like a low cost way to unseat some Russian, Chinese, Iranian influences close to home.

Venezuelan oil production is 30% off their peak - bringing that even halfway back over the next few years will make a lot of money and pressure middle east/Russia as oil prices struggle to stay over $50/barrel, IMO. Heavy crude displacing Canadian in our Gulf refineries - yeah middle finger to them too. High ROI maneuver - whatever despot takes Maduro's place will be our despot. Really don't like it but makes a lot more sense than playing in the hills of Shitcanistan.

 

[NDVirginia19]

Everyone but the radical left, China, Russia, and Cuba seems pretty happy about it.


Congress doesn't want to be accountable or go on the record for things. We've neutered on of our checks and balances and have unelected people who are not accountable to the public making policy decisions. They delegated the legislative branch to the alphabet agencies and President long-ago. Congress has been reduced to appropriations bills, post offices, and judges.

And they can't even get fucking appropriations bills passed

 

[drayer54]

So your perfectly ok with whoever the president is unilaterally declaring war against other nations?

Not what I said. I said there’s a threshold for where I think it is necessary. Short operations are not war. 20 years in Afghanistan? Sure. 2.5 hours in Caracas? No

 

[ColoradoIrish]

Not what I said. I said there’s a threshold for where I think it is necessary. Short operations are not war. 20 years in Afghanistan? Sure. 2.5 hours in Caracas? No

I was asking a follow up question for clarity on your stance. And it's not 2.5 hours in Caracas. If that was the case we wouldn't be running the country.

 

[Fbolt]

But what does "running their country" actually look like? I'll be watching and hold on a stance.

Regardless, the narco-terror shift to oil is such BS. However, the influences of Russia/China/Iran/and Cuba being thwarted in this hemisphere is a positive.

 

[Irish#1]

 

[Old Man Mike]

... without putting us in an Iraq nation-administrating problem.

 

[drayer54]

But what does "running their country" actually look like? I'll be watching and hold on a stance.

Regardless, the narco-terror shift to oil is such BS. However, the influences of Russia/China/Iran/and Cuba being thwarted in this hemisphere is a positive.

This. If we wind up with troops there in perpetuity, sure. Otherwise, whatever.

 

[Bishop2b5]

MSN

The View's Ana Navarro is catching hell from the left for calling Madurro a sadistic son of a bitch and celebrating his removal. How DARE she go off script and be happy about anything Trump did! That heretic needs to remember that her side DOES NOT tolerate any differences of opinion or even the slightest failure to toe the party line. Orange Man BAAAD!

 

[dublinirish]

 

[Bishop2b5]

 

[Bishop2b5]

 

[drayer54]

 

[calvegas04]

 

[calvegas04]

 

[drayer54]

Hoping they clear this awful regime. Feels like it is closer than ever.

 

[Irish#1]

Iran cut off contact with the rest of the world.

Iran shut off from the world as regime struggles to contain escalating unrest

Protesters were "ruining their own streets" to please President Donald Trump, who has threatened intervention, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[drayer54]

Iran cut off contact with the rest of the world.

Iran shut off from the world as regime struggles to contain escalating unrest

Protesters were "ruining their own streets" to please President Donald Trump, who has threatened intervention, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday.

www.nbcnews.com

This should be the biggest story in the world right now.

 

[calvegas04]

This should be the biggest story in the world right now.

After the Epstein files

 

[Irish#1]

I have a feeling Trump is going to send a message.

Trump says Iran wants to negotiate, weighs 'strong options' to respond to deadly protest crackdown

At least 544 people have been killed as security forces try to quash the unrest, activists say, with the true scale of the crackdown yet to become clear amid an internet blackout.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Irish#1]

Rodriguez feeling some pressure?

Multiple Americans detained in Venezuela have been released, State Department says

The move was welcomed by an official, who said it was “an important step in the right direction by the interim authorities.”

www.nbcnews.com

 

[ulukinatme]

Rodriguez feeling some pressure?

Multiple Americans detained in Venezuela have been released, State Department says

The move was welcomed by an official, who said it was “an important step in the right direction by the interim authorities.”

www.nbcnews.com

"Peace through strength." Strongly worded letters don't work if you don't follow through from time to time.

 

[GATTACA!]

Trump says 8 European countries will face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland

President Donald Trump says he'll impose a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland.

apnews.com

So we get to pay 10% extra because Denmark doesn’t want to sell us a territory that doesn’t want to be sold to us?

What a deal!

 

[Blazers46]

Trump says 8 European countries will face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland

President Donald Trump says he'll impose a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland.

apnews.com

So we get to pay 10% extra because Denmark doesn’t want to sell us a territory that doesn’t want to be sold to us?

What a deal!

National security comes with a price. Pay the cost of admission you freeloader… half joking.

 

[Sea Turtle]

Nothing ever happens.

 

[calvegas04]

Trump at it again, must have gotten more orders from his handlers

 

[Bluto]

Trump says 8 European countries will face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland

President Donald Trump says he'll impose a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland.

apnews.com

So we get to pay 10% extra because Denmark doesn’t want to sell us a territory that doesn’t want to be sold to us?

What a deal!

Gonna need a place to relocate all those Floridians who will be displaced due to Florida being under water because of sea level rise caused by the melting of Greenland's glaciers due to the burning of fossil fuels for data centers to allow for AI to make deep fake porn and bitcoin mining.

Would be very on brand for this administration.

 

[ulukinatme]

Gonna need a place to relocate all those Floridians who will be displaced due to Florida being under water because of sea level rise caused by the melting of Greenland's glaciers due to the burning of fossil fuels for data centers to allow for AI to make deep fake porn and bitcoin mining.

Would be very on brand for this administration.

I applaud their foresight to make the Greenland purchase then. It's good to see an administration thinking to the future and not the present!

That said, it looks like I need to make new arrangements for retirement...and maybe I need to quit with the deep fake porn for a brighter tomorrow.

 

[drayer54]

Trump at it again, must have gotten more orders from his handlers

Perhaps the handlers thought 22T over the super amazing allies was too lopsided.