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Trump’s ‘Law Of The Strongest’
Just before noon on Monday, which is to say just before Nicolas Maduro was arraigned in a Manhattan
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If “This is OUR hemisphere”, then we better feed OUR people. Because they don’t have enough food down there and that is leading to complete chaos, no rule of law, stealing, and utter desperation.
By some reports, over 90% of the country lives in poverty without adequate food or medical care. GDP per capita is about $3,300. It has been in that range for over a decade. Down from a high of $12,700 in 2012.
Now our Generalissimo in Charge is saying US taxpayers may have to subsidize any oil companies foolish enough to reenter Venezuela and rehabilitate their oil industry. Left unsaid but understood is who will provide security. Viva la Revolution
You break it, you own it.
Trump is making America, a once great International superpower (1944-2024), and making it into a Regional superpower (pre-1944). I guess that’s what he meant by MAGA.
Trump has an 80’s fixation: trade wars, tariffs, the Mar-a-Lago Accord (the Plaza Accord), tax cuts for the wealthy, Iran, oil, cocaine trafficking, and now Maduro (Noriega and/or Grenada). Even “(Let’s) Make America Great Again” was an old Ronald Reagan political slogan. It is a shame he has not studied the Gipper’s approach on Russia much more closely.
Stephen Miller is a scary, unhinged Imperialist now, too.