• acab_means_cop_Dva [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    It has to be this lady and ‘comedian’ Matt Rife who take the number 1 and number 2 spots of people who have introduced themselves to worldwide public consciousness and scrutiny and then immediately and permanently disgraced themselves and their credibility the quickest. Fine company.

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    I just imagine Trump regifting various knick-knacks he doesn’t care about. Here’s a plaque that says “congratulations Mr. President” that JD got me for inaguration, a #1 dad mug Eric got me, and some commemorative FIFA towels from the FIFA prize ceremony.

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    Venezuela was a military coup, the generals gave up maduro and stood down, and are now the de facto rulers to oversee civilian rulers signing over assets to connected groups. Like pakistan’s military junta.

    As such machado will go down in infamy, as resistance will appear as they are taking oil, the military will quash resistance, and utilize paramilitaries to death squad villages in collective punishments, paid for with black market cia connected drug and weapons markets.

    Ignorance is no excuse, machado betrayed her people, to the worst people in the world. Bad before or no, helping a us backed military coup is worse, as will become clear.

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      What are you talking about? The entire venezuelan government is still in place. It’s like if someone came in and extradited trump for sex pestilence, inshallah, Vance would just take over.

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        What did I already say? Military real ruler, politicians puppets now. Like pakistan.

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            You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Well you and the flock do I suppose.

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              No typically your source for which way the wind blows would be a device which tells you, or you’re standing outside in the wind. Are you in Venezuela or do you have a real source? If not you’re just making it up

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                You need an influencer to hand feed you information, it’s getting kind of pathetic. Can’t even see what is right in front of you, can’t even recognize indisputable fact. On this one I would start to suspect your sincerity in not recognizing what I say is true. It is indisputably true, asking for a source for helicoptors being vulnerable to weapons systems venezuela had on the ground in spades is next level ignorant.

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                  That is speculations, not “indisputable facts”. Speculations can be fine, sometimes it is the best we have access to, but the reasoning of some guy on the internet is not a source about facts on the ground in Venezuela.

                  Your theory on the US terrorist attack and abduction of Maduro is one among several. There are other theories with some level of credibility out there, such as:

                  • Venezuelan defenses were disabled by American electronic warfare
                  • Venezuela fucked up and was taken by surprise
                  • The Venezuelan government made a Faustian bargain with Washington, offering Maduro as a symbolic victory to Trump
                  • Venezuela stood down, fearing retaliation against civilians if US American terrorists were hurt
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                  yeah, we should just take your arrogant word for it. Seems a lot more likely to me that the Venezuelan military got caught with their pants down and bungled the defense, the Amerikkkan military has plenty of stealth and jamming technology to disrupt air defense for an operation like this

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              Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You’re alleging that an entire military command collaborated with their enemy. You’ll have to provide some proof for that.

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                Ha ha, yeah, a military coup sponsored by the US, it’s unheard of! Why would I give a shit what some bootlicker thinks though?

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                  Yes, it could be a military coup. It could also be the US using classified alien technology they found in the Bermuda Triangle.

                  But the simplest explanation is that Trump / Rubio were angry at Venezuela, their generals told them a ground war would be Vietnam 2.0, and that it would be safer to kill / kidnap one of their leaders and declare victory. The US can do this - Venezuela has one modern Russian-made air-defence battery (see MarmiteLover’s posts in the news threads) and that can’t cover the entire country. (Older systems won’t work against the modern US military.)