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04.12.25 - 18:48
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What Trump′s Saber Rattling Means for Venezuela′s Oil (Bloomberg)
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On Nov. 11, the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, arrived in the Caribbean Sea as part of a military deployment that President Donald Trump says is intended to counter narco-traffickers from Venezuela. It's the biggest US military mobilization in Latin America since 1989....
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04.12.25 - 06:51
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How Obama Paved The Way For Trump′s Venezuelan Killings (ZeroHedge)
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How Obama Paved The Way For Trump's Venezuelan Killings
Authored by Jim Bovard
The Trump administration's killings of scores of Venezuelans are justifiably provoking outrage. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, "We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists." Donald Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama.
In his 2017 farewell address, Obama boasted, "We have taken out tens of thousands of terrorists." Drone strikes increased tenfold under Obama, helping fuel anti-US backlashes in several nations.
As he campaigned for the presidency in 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama declared, "We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers." Many Americans who voted for Obama in 2008 expected a seachange in Washington. However, from his first weeks in office, Obama authorized widespread secret attacks against foreign suspects, some...
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03.12.25 - 16:15
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Maduro Could Be Exiled To Qatar As Trump Warns Land Strikes On Venezuela Coming "Very Soon" (ZeroHedge)
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Maduro Could Be Exiled To Qatar As Trump Warns Land Strikes On Venezuela Coming "Very Soon"
President Trump reportedly issued Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro a deadline of last Friday to of his own volition step down as president and accomplish a peaceful transition of power, or else face possible direct military action.
The New York Post is freshly reporting that the White House has offered that Maduro could be exiled to Qatar, where he would live out his days in luxury in one of the world's wealthiest countries.
"A senior Trump administration source said Secretary of State Marco Rubio has floated allowing Maduro, 63, to relocate to Qatar as the gas-rich emirate helps mediate the conflict," NY Post writes Wednesday. "Three current and two former administration officials described the scenario as plausible."
Qatar, image via Remote Lands
A source close to the administration described that "Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE love to do stuff like this. It ...
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