Trump has been hinting for several weeks at carrying out attacks in Venezuela. In October, he acknowledged that he had given the foreign intelligence agency, the CIA, secret orders to plan attacks in the country.
And for months, the United States has been attacking boats it claims are linked to drug trafficking from Venezuela, but it has not provided evidence that these “narcoterrorists” actually pose a direct threat to the U.S. The government argues that this threat justifies military force. However, many critics and legal experts point out that there is no proof of a direct threat to the US, thus no formal armed conflict, meaning these operations amount to illegally killings in international waters. At least 105 people have already been killed.
In fact, relatively few drugs come from Venezuela into the U.S. The synthetic opioid fentanyl causes the most fatalities in the US, but is mainly produced by Mexican cartels from Chinese raw materials, NOT Venezuelan cartels. The US seems to want to see leftist authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro leave. Wth? So Trump is just like Putin attacking Ukraine?
Alcohol and tobacco are by far the worst of any drugs ever created.
Uh there’s Krokodil (actually it turns out most of what you read is the production not the literal chemical desomorphine causing most of the issues you hear about)
No.
In terms of mortality it’s not even close. Alcohol alone kills nearly twice as many people as all other drugs combined.
Tobacco, 5x as many.
Sure, but isn’t that just because anyone can buy them in the supermarket? Start selling opioids in the same way and I’m pretty sure those stats would change.
Is the AK-47 the worst weapon we’ve created just because it’s killed the most people? I don’t think that’s how those stats are supposed to be used, imo.
There are several countries that basically did this and no, the stats don’t change. In fact, de-criminalizing those drugs has lead to a decrease in usage and associated deaths in all cases I’m aware of.
Decriminalization isn’t anywhere near the same as legalization. One means you wont go to jail when you get caught with it despite it being illegal to sell, while the other means it’s legal to possess, buy, and sell.
I’m also curious about the rates of users to deaths and not just total number of deaths as most adults use alcohol at some point while only a tiny percent use stuff like meth or heroin.
Also “relatively few drugs come from Venezuela into the U.S. The synthetic opioid fentanyl causes the most fatalities in the US, but is mainly produced by Mexican cartels from Chinese raw materials.”
Yes, Trump is exactly like Putin attacking Ukrain
Putins wants Ukraine for resources and to have Zelensky out and is bombing them, America wants to bully Maduro out AND for the largest oil reservoir in the world in Venezuela so they also bomb them… Ok?
The only reason trump hasn’t attacked Canada is because we are demographically uncooperative with standard US bombing campaigns…
Trump is like Bush Jr attacking Iraq over some nonexistent “WMDs.”
Imo Maduro should cut a security deal with china and fuck up trump’s whole game. I’m tired of this forever war bullshit over oil.
Many yankistanis are already gushing over this, if china gets involved, they would be signing up in droves to kill “communists” escalating things even more.
The rest of the west should be putting pressure against this, but they are proving themselves to be spineless once again.
Can you name a time “the west” wasn’t spineless cowards?
… Asking for a Polish friend in 1939
Yes, before the illegal immigrants in the big wooden boats showed up.
The ones with guns looking to pay off debts?
Here is a source from a media company that isn’t the mouthpiece for DJT. That source has on the ground video footage in Venezuela. Fuck Trump, and fuck his entire administration.
A dock? Such a rapey “just the tip,” approach. “Hey Venezuela, if you don’t fight back, it’ll hurt less.”
It’s all he knows.
I loved the part where he said he knows nothing about it then says afterwards he just found out about it lmao
I start a war, I ended that war. Where is my noble peace prize?! 🫲🍊🫱
You get: mass strikes until the dissolution of the whole government. 🥳
Rape some children then start a war to distract.
About as obvious as it gets.
I hope he seriously overextends the military, and needs a draft. We will get to see how big and tough the MAGAs really are.
I think it’d be a while before they did a draft. Money would be pumped into Palantir/Oracle/Lockheed/Raytheon first
