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silence7@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

What the U.S. Is Really Doing in Venezuela: Suppressing democracy and extracting resources at the expense of its people

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What the U.S. Is Really Doing in Venezuela: Suppressing democracy and extracting resources at the expense of its people

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silence7@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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  • speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Soooooooo, the same thing the US has done all over the planet for decades. Still shitty after all these years.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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    What the U.S. Is Really Doing in South America/the Middle East/South East Asia: Suppressing democracy and extracting resources at the expense of its people

    There, that is more accurate I think.

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      what every empire throughout history has done

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    I work with some Venezuelan immigrants, they’re all unanimous that things back home are even worse now since the US invasion.

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      That’s really insane, given how people I know left Venezuela because of a lack of food

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        Now they have the freedom of no security, resources, or food.

  • droopy4096@lemmy.ca
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    rerun of Chile

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    not like maduro wanst doing the same thing before, plus the current regime hasnt change, just more aligned to trump.

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      Yeah, but you make sure not to shit where you sleep

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    He saw someone exploiting people and thought: I can do better.

  • AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world
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    This is what they always have done after WW2

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    Was there ever any doubt about trump’s intention?

    Of course he is doing this, he’s a monster.

    • speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      It ain’t Trump. It’s the country’s history continuing unabated.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    Fellow U.S. citizens…we are the bad guys.

    • treadful@lemmy.zip
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      Most of us don’t want to be the bad guys.

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        I don’t think we get to choose that.

        Look at Russians.

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        Most of you didn’t care enough to vote at all.

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          https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voter-turnout-2020-2024/

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            66% attendance being a record high is so disappointing.

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        All your presisents are war criminals

        • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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          Jimmy Carter was alright. The rest were awful.

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            He was an alright war criminal, he still was ok with sending weapons and aid to Israel, he allowed coups to happen, he gave aid to the junta of el Salvador who murdered ton of people

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              All shitty things, but none of them a war crime.

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                An accomplice is a criminal too. Someone giving weapons to war criminals are themselves was criminals

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    I think that is the common understanding. The reason it’s not bandied about publicly is the amazing power of the billionaire owned media. We need to change those rules about media ownership before everything merges into one big ball of goo.

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      We need to change the rules about billionaires.

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        I still think the tee shirt that you get at 1 billion of “congrats you won capitalism” and then get to earn no more money ever - is the best idea.

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    I remember a fool here supporting the kidnapping, he is nowhere to be found right now

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    Great, the Americans have re-invented colonialism again!

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      https://www.rsn.org/001/erik-prince-calls-for-us-to-colonize-africa-and-latin-america.html

  • Randelung@lemmy.world
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    So the same thing it’s doing to its own people, too.

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    US gonna US.

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    Yep. Locked that puppet state into a price of $65 per barrel while market price is nearly $100 and will only go up.

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