So Trump DOES Want Venezuela's Oil. I Thought It Was Only A War On Drugs!

[toobfreak]

The ordeal is really about China and Russia. If I cannot make a deal with you, I will tamper with your interest. Unfortunately, Maduro is the current whipping boy for the US just like when Saddam Hussein was the whipping boy for the US. Billions of dollars in contracts belonging to China and Russia were nullified after the invasion of Iraq.

In other words, it really is all about survival of the fittest, isn't it? I do not seeing a single other country out there sacrificing looking out for our interests! That is the job of a president. We look out for ourselves and they look out for themselves. When there is a conflict of interest, the stronger survives.

That is the way it has always been for every country these past 5,000 years, that is the way it is throughout the animal kingdom, the insect kingdom, even the plant kingdom.

That is life. All these years the USA has been getting screwed over the coals in trade with other countries getting nailed with steep tariffs, I did not hear a single person in another country ever once complain that they were not being fair to the USA.

Our politicians are globalist traitors and idiots who have sold us out for ages while letting opportunity after opportunity pass through their fingers. They have allowed the USA to get boxed into a corner in many key, strategic areas. Finally, we have a real man in the office not some trembling, shaking fool, with some gravitas who will re-balance the world order and put America back on top in the center of things.

That is our president's job.

But I understand your confusion--- it is probably the first president in our lives to really do his job since maybe Eisenhower, so I understand your never seeing a real president with stones before.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Why cant we want both?

Who is we? Not Trump.

 

[Godboy]

But we were all told that bombing Venezuelan boats was part of the "war on drugs."

It is a war on drugs. If it was only about oil, they wouldnt even bother going after drug boats, let alone conduct large scale investigations and operations to get intel on these traffickers.

 

[Norm Paperman]

It is a war on drugs. If it was only about oil, they wouldnt even bother going after drug boats, let alone conduct large scale investigations and operations to get intel on these traffickers.

The murder of the people on the high seas was just cover for the real objective.

Plus the people in the current administration really just hate brown people

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It is a war on drugs.

As gullible as the day is long....

 

[cnm]

They did a lot of that to themselves. Our ideas of nation building may have caused more problems.

I suppose that's the 'not guilty guilty'.

 

[SaxonJackson]

Why cant we want both?

We can want a lot of things. But I'm that old school type who still believes in doing what's right. Looking for the easiest target and taking their resources doesn't align with my standards. I still like the vision of the Founding Fathers. I know that's no longer a popular belief but it is what it is.

 

[Godboy]

The murder of the people on the high seas was just cover for the real objective.

"Cover"?!!! Cover from what, super happy Trump voters who like cheap oil?

The moment they brought a carrier group there, it was obviously about oil. Carrier groups are for toppling nations, not hunting little drug boats.

 

[cnm]

I just told you, he doesn't want them to have a foothold in this hemisphere

That's why he got China to buy Argentine soy.

 

[Norm Paperman]

It is a war on drugs. If it was only about oil, they wouldnt even bother going after drug boats, let alone conduct large scale investigations and operations to get intel on these traffickers.

Why did Trump pardon a convicted drug lord if it is about drugs?

Why did Trump pardon the founder of a dark web drug site if was about drugs?

 

[SaxonJackson]

It is a war on drugs. If it was only about oil, they wouldnt even bother going after drug boats, let alone conduct large scale investigations and operations to get intel on these traffickers.

Then we should bomb Mexico immediately. Then, we need to drive down the streets and Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, St. Louis, and a ton more drug-infested American cities and start tossing grenades left and right.

 

[Godboy]

Why did Trump pardon a convicted drug lord if it is about drugs?

I dont know, but one would have to assume that the US is getting something really good in return for that pardon. Trump wouldnt have heard a thing about this guy if word didnt get to him that he had something major to offer.

 

[SaxonJackson]

I dont know, but one would have to assume that the US is getting something really good in return for that pardon. Trump wouldnt have heard a thing about this guy if word didnt get to him that he had something major to offer.

A free pound of Coke?

 

[cnm]

When he first told us America Firsters that he "no longer needed our support" my jaw dropped in disbelief.

Would you link to that instance, just so I can fill in my score card?

 

[drudge X]

By getting China to buy Argentine soy.

Yeah, only an idiot believe buying soy is more important than national interest. I am sure you believe China when the CCP said the giant antenna built in Argentina is for radio astronomy.

 

[Norm Paperman]

I dont know, but one would have to assume that the US is getting something really good in return for that pardon. Trump wouldnt have heard a thing about this guy if word didnt get to him that he had something major to offer.

You have far more faith in Trump and the US than I do. I would never make such a assumption given the history of the US and of Trump.

 

[Godboy]

Then we should bomb Mexico immediately. Then, we need to drive down the streets and Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, St. Louis, and a ton more drug-infested American cities and start tossing grenades left and right.

We can talk about Mexico, but i hardly see how the rest of that would be good for the US. Nah, we use our bombs to hurt other nations, not our own.

 

[Norm Paperman]

We can talk about Mexico, but i hardly see how the rest of that would be good for the US. Nah, we use our bombs to hurt other nations, not our own.

Then it is not about drugs at all.

 

[Godboy]

You have far more faith in Trump and the US than I do. I would never make such a assumption given the history of the US and of Trump.

Explain how news of this guy gets anywhere near the presidents desk without a shitload of scrutiny from a million middle men first. Trump isnt handing out pardons for random strangers just cuz. That isnt a thing.

 

[SaxonJackson]

We can talk about Mexico, but i hardly see how the rest of that would be good for the US. Nah, we use our bombs to hurt other nations, not our own.

Are you saying that the USA is now Mexico? I guess you sorta have a point. Nevertheless ... if the new "war on drugs" depends on how many bombs we drop ... we have a LONG way to go.