Trump threatens military operation against Colombia, after Venezuela raid
Donald Trump on Sunday threatened military action against Colombia's government, telling reporters that such an operation "sounds good to me."
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-new-military-operation-focused-colombia-sounds-good-him-2026-01-05/Open linkView original on lemmy.world366
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Trump has gone made and Republicans sit on their hands. We need to try these people as traitors.
Is he mad?
Or is she showing the world the true state of its affairs?
Por que no los dos
Trump isn't doing anything the US government hasn't done since WWII. Chile had a democratic government so US brought in a dictator.
Imagine what Harris would be doing right now though.
I'm confused. Are you saying that Harris would be invading Venezuela in the first place?
I'm pretty sure that you completely fell Poe's law. Smcf is not a conservative as far as I can tell based on the last 2 years of reading their comments.
Sure, I didn't do that level of investigation. Even with that information, I'm still having some trouble parsing but I'm pretty fucked up right now.
Everything's pretty fucked up right now. Be safe & keep on keeping on.
People here on the fediverse were saying that a vote for Harris is a vote for genocide, but not really mentioning Trump at all. Well, people on the tankieverse anyway, idk if your instance has them defederated or not.
The comment you replied to was a reference to this. A reminder that people here told voters to stay home because Harris was so awful.
Which likely didn't have much an effect on the election result, but we're allowed to be bitter about the entire thing. Anyone with a brain knew Trump would be worse, but people in bad faith argued that Trump didn't support the genocide in Palestine so Harris was the worse, more violent option.
Even thought Trump very publicly supported the genocide in Palestine.
Not attacking Venezuela and destroying the relationships with our allies.
Well, shes not a genocidal Nazi so she'd probably be doing everything in her power to make the lives of US citizens a little better. And not just feeding propaganda to the fragile-ego-peaked-in-high-school-racist-mouth-breathers while moving the US deeper into another recession while selling her endless merchandise
You seem obsessed with her. Go buy a poster of her and start worshiping.
She is hiding like a coward after finishing the promotion of her book when aoc and bernie are fighting on the ground
Hey guy, I suspect that you tried to make a sarcastic comment, if that was the point, add a "/s" to it. Else just leave it for the downvotes
Troll
She'd be making a genocide happen in Gaza for sure and probably wouldn't have stopped the war in Ukraine yet.
What can the world do? Not one country is strong enough to enforce demand on the US and a coalition seems unlikely. How can one stop such a dictator?
I hear a lot of "sell us treasury bonds".
What effect does this have?
It would force the US to pay for the value of those bonds and either default on the bonds by not paying (and losing any negotiating power on the world financial stage), Or loose about 31 Trillion paying out bonds to countries.
Sell them to who?
To us
Why not? Who is going to stop him. Greenland next.
Full speed ahead and ignore the Epstein files.
We're under the rule of a deranged madman and the media is desperately trying to spin this as "business as usual".
It's not a lone madman. It's just such good propaganda that nobody is asking who the people are who came up with the plan of conquering Venezuela.
The media is captured, it's complicit, it's bought and controlled by people like Murdoch.
He heard they have little girls he could rape and traffic.
What's interesting for me is the last 20 or so years of hearing people talk about how Iran or NK or whoever should never have nuclear weapons because, you know, their leaders may just be crazy enough to use them. (When historically nukes have proven to be the best deterrent against the belligerent aggression of major world powers.)
And here in the US, we're on our third admin in a row run by someone with evident, public mental illness and travels with an arsenal of nukes at his fingertips.
The world has a breaking point where they won't put up with the US' shit anymore, and we may find out what that is in 2026.
No one will believe this:
20 years ago, eating lunch behind Taco Bell, George Bush is President, listening to Limbaugh (I know! It was a long time ago.)
Rush is going off about how it's none of America's business to police Iran's nuclear capability and that Iran has the right to develop not only power stations, but weapons, for the same reasons you outline. He argued for some time on the subject.
I'd kill for a recording of that because I'm pretty certain he flipped the script once Obama was in and trying to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Since nobody is going to mass shoot these motherfuckers, I am actually praying to a god that doesn't exist that like 80% of these pieces of shit drop dead of some kind of causes, natural or otherwise.
Well that's quite likely. The vast majority of people do die as a result of some sort of cause.
I think he meant it as his/her 2026 new years wish.
Probably also dancing around the 'a' word
He also threatened Cuba, Denmark/greenland, Mexico, Canada and Panama. The turd Reich just had its Austria moment so you can bet on more imperialist expansion.
And Colombia. He thinks the US owns the western hemisphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
It's not just Trump.
The demented fuck is just flailing around lashing out at other countries at this point...
I think he just wants to push the Epstein files out of the discussion.
Sure. Which country's leader would not bomb, invade and threaten other countries all around the world to distract from their scandal du jour.
IDK why this reminds me of the NK rhetoric, maybe in the end they weren't wrong.
The rhetoric, absolutely. The difference is that this idiot has a big, loaded gun that works.
Yeah but that gun didn't work when you have enough nukes to evaporate the whole USA with.
The moron in chief
I hope all these brave american "heroes" rot in hell. Thank you for your service,nazi scum
Gfdi i didn't put "ww3" on my 2026 bingo card
I hate the idea that nobody actually wants to fight but we might be forced to by some old men and billionaires.
I hope that there will be some kind of uprising before this actually happens.
yeah, thats how ukraine feels -- people like trump and putin bringing their wars to people who have to defend themselves
So, the list for president of peace is;
Venezuela
Mexico
Colombia
Cuba
Greenland/Denmark
Canada
Iran
Panama
Try the whole western hemisphere.
Do it! Do it! Your citizens will sit and watch, like the rest of the world.