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A new U.S.-instigated foreign war is apparently imminent, incoming from the “Peace President” who promised to end such global adventurism.
The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to strike military installations in Venezuela, targeting facilities linked to alleged drug trafficking and the Soles cartel, with potential strikes expected within hours or days, according to multiple press reports.
This escalation aims to dismantle key infrastructure and leadership associated with the cartel, which is allegedly run by Nicolás Maduro’s government.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night that the administration is preparing to attack a variety of targets inside Venezuela, including “ports and airports controlled by the military that are allegedly used to traffic drugs, including naval facilities and airstrips.”
Reports from the US government and the United Nations have not identified Venezuela as a significant source of drugs that enter the United States, and the country plays virtually no role in the trafficking of fentanyl, the primary cause of drug overdoses in the US.
While the WSJ report said the administration had not yet decided to carry out the operations against Venezuela, the Miami Herald reported Friday morning that the administration “has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment.”
A source cited the Miami Herald didn’t explicitly say that Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro would be the target of these actions, but they nonetheless hinted that the goal was to weaken his grip on power.
It’s my opinion that invading Venezuela will turn out to be a big mistake, potentially resulting in another long, drawn-out military operation of the type America can no longer afford. It’s these types of foreign adventures and the idea that we must be the final arbiter of what leader is allowed to rule which country that has led to the buildup of an unsustainable $38 trillion national debt.
Good luck Trump. I hope it goes well and doesn’t result in another Vietnam or Afghanistan. But however it ends up, I know we didn’t vote for this. We voted for the Peace President and instead we got the neocon version of Trump. With war imminent against Venezuela and nuclear saber rattling ongoing with Russia, and another round of war with Iran rumored by year’s end, Lindsey Graham must be having wet dreams.
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The Washington Post published an article Thursday that the Pentagon has ordered thousands of specialized National Guard troops to complete training for how to curtail civil unrest, an indication that the Trump administration plans to normalize armed military forces in U.S. cities.
This is not new. We’ve been onto this for weeks, but it’s good to see the mainstream media is finally catching up. And the Post did fill in a few details.
The Defense Department’s newly established “quick reaction force” within the National Guard must be trained, equipped with riot-control gear and ready for deployment by January 1, according to internal documents reviewed by The Post.
The 200 troops will be drawn from National Guard personnel whose primary focus is responding to disasters like weather disasters, environmental accidents and terrorist attacks, the documents said.
The Post reports that an existing separate but similar structure, the National Guard Reaction Force, is expected to complete civil unrest training and be fully operational by April 1. The total size of the force will be 23,500 troops across all 50 states and three territories, excluding the District of Columbia, the documents say. Most states will supply 500 personnel for the reaction force, with the rest falling between 250 and 450.
The mandate, along with the growing presence of federal and immigration enforcement officers, suggests further militarization of American cities could take place by the end of the year.
The Post notes:
“The deployments, which President Trump has described as a bid to quell violence and crime, have infuriated Democratic governors in multiple states, who have fought the president’s deployments through litigation.”
A defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe military planning, said the Pentagon is “revising plans for the employment of [National Guard Reaction Forces] to guarantee their ability to assist federal, state and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances.”
Trump has mobilized thousands of National Guard members in D.C., Los Angeles and Memphis, with deployments to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, delayed by court decisions. That’s controversial by any standard, the Post noted, writing:
“He has claimed unfettered authority to deploy military personnel onto American soil, including active-duty troops, which by law are prohibited from performing law enforcement duties except in extreme cases or if the president invokes the Insurrection Act.”
Clearly, the administration is aware of something big coming down the pike. The government itself is likely involved. It could be a false flag attack of some type that will be blamed on some notorious boogeyman, either an Islamist cell or a state actor such as Russia or Iran, which would give Trump a pretext to launch a new war while cracking down on domestic dissidents.
We’ve been very aware of new totalitarian powers coming from the left in recent years, but America is about to get an education on what totalitarianism looks like from the right. The globalists know no such boundaries between “right” and “left.” They see the politicians from both “sides” as interchangeable parts to be used in an overall Hegelian dialectic that always ends with more power and control in the hands of government.
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King Charles III on Thursday stripped his disgraced brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicted him from his royal residence after weeks of pressure to act over his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Buckingham Palace said the king “initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honors of Prince Andrew.”
Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and not as a prince, and he will move from his Royal Lodge residence into private accommodations.
As noted by Breitbart News, it is almost unprecedented for a British prince or princess to be stripped of that title. It last happened in 1919, when Prince Ernest Augustus, who was a U.K. royal and also a prince of Hanover, had his British title removed for siding with Germany during World War I.
Demand had been growing on the palace to oust the prince from Royal Lodge after he surrendered his use of the title Duke of York earlier this month over new revelations about his friendship with Epstein and renewed sexual abuse allegations by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, whose posthumous memoir hit bookstores last week.
But the king went even further to punish him for serious lapses of judgment by removing the title of prince that he has held since birth as a child of a monarch, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
The palace said in a statement:
“These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him. Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.”
Giuffre’s brother, Skye Roberts, declared victory for his sister, who died by suicide in April at the age of 41.
Roberts stated:
“Today, an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family, brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage.”
Andrew faced a new round of public uproar after emails emerged earlier this month showing he had remained in contact with Epstein longer than he previously admitted.
That news was followed by publication of Nobody’s Girl, by Giuffre, who alleged she had sex with Andrew when she was 17. The book detailed three alleged sexual encounters with Andrew, who she said acted as if he believed “having sex with me was his birthright.”
Now, I don’t know about you, but this tells me that the allegations against Jeffrey Epstein are absolutely true. It tells me he did arrange nefarious connections between powerful elites and underage girls. It was likely one big influence-peddling scheme run by government intelligence agencies.
For the Trump administration to cover up the Epstein affair is flat out wrong. The files should be released immediately, in their entirety. And the attacks on Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, the two most vocal proponents of making the Epstein files public, need to stop. The president has said the whole sordid story surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is a hoax. The actions this week by the British Royal Family would not have been taken in response to a hoax.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin launched more tests of nuclear delivery systems, one on land, a cruise missile with unlimited range, and one under the sea, the unmanned Poseidon torpedo drone. There is no defense against either of these weapons should Putin decide to use them against America or other Western targets.
Putin is sending a message. Is Trump listening? Yes, but unfortunately, he’s chosen to further escalate tensions with Russia rather than just taking the message that he has already rattled Putin’s cage enough with all his talk of sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine for use against Russia.
Trump announced Thursday he will respond to Putin’s weapons’ tests by resuming testing of U.S. nuclear weapons for the first time since such tests were discontinued in 1992 by former President George H.W. Bush. Trump could have taken the Russian tests as a sign that perhaps things were getting out of control and in need of de-escalation. In typical Trump fashion, however, he chooses to engage in a tit-for-tat escalation game. Trying to prove who has the bigger, badder weapons arsenal is very unwise when dealing with nuclear warheads.
Russia did try to tamp down the situation by “clarifying” Thursday that it only tested the delivery systems for potential nuclear warheads. It did not explode any actual nuclear warheads during its tests. That didn’t faze Trump, as he is pushing forward with nuclear testing “immediately.”
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President Trump said he reached an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping on soybean purchases, fentanyl precursors, and rare earth exports, paving the way for a finalized trade deal to be signed that he said would last for at least a year and result in an immediate reduction in tariffs.
China will immediately begin purchasing “tremendous amounts” of soybeans and other agricultural products from the United States, the president told reporters flying with him on Air Force One.
A deal, Trump said, was also reached to keep China’s proposed export controls on rare-earth minerals from taking effect. He explained, “That roadblock is gone now. There’s no roadblock at all on rare earth.”
Trump added that:
“We have a deal. Now, every year, we’ll renegotiate the deal. But I think the deal will go on for a long time. Long beyond the year, we’ll negotiate at the end of a year.”
The agreement in principle was reached after Trump met with Xi for one hour and 40 minutes in South Korea.
Trump said he would immediately halve a fentanyl-related tariff that had been at 20 percent. It will be immediately reduced to 10 percent. A variety of other tariffs are still in place, leaving the rate at 45 to 47 percent on certain Chinese imports.
Trump said he would be visiting China in April, and Xi would visit him in the United States at some point afterwards.
In my opinion, this deal is more of a temporary draw-down of U.S.-China co-dependence than it is a long-term resolving of issues between the two superpowers. I see it as part of an organized divorce, not a full reproachment. Both countries know it would not behoove them to immediately decouple, as there are simply too many complicated and dire symptoms that would immediately surface were they to end all trade relations immediately.
The timetable for full-on World War III is, in my estimation, still set for 2027. This deal allows China and America to gradually draw down their dependence on each other leading up to that big confrontation.
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Bill Gates has changed his tune about “climate change,” claiming after years of fear-mongering that the climate is no longer such a big deal after all.
According to Breitbart News, Gates still believes that so-called climate change is a problem but it won’t be the end of humanity as we know it.
The billionaire con man relayed his change of heart in a 17-page memo released Tuesday.
Gates now thinks “scientific innovation” will curb any threats to the planet’s climate and it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” away from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease. This from a guy who’s been alleged to have caused a lot of disease in various countries around the world.
By referring to “scientific innovation,” was Gates talking about such oddities as his efforts to block out the sun by spraying chemicals into the upper atmosphere? We don’t know because he didn’t elaborate.
The 70-year-old technocrat said in the memo that the world’s primary goal should now work to prevent suffering, particularly in the Third World.
AP reports that, if given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, Gates told reporters, “I’ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria. People don’t understand the suffering that exists today.”
The Microsoft co-founder is urging world leaders to ask whether the money designated for climate is being spent on the right things, AP notes, in a complete reversal from his past warnings on the future of the planet.
It sounds to me like Gates has pivoted away from climate alarmism because it’s hurting his bottom line. Maybe he’s realized he can make more money on vaccines while also accomplishing the same goal as his climate agenda, which is depopulation.
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The New York Post reports that the rapid rollout of power-hungry AI data centers could be straining the U.S. energy grid and causing utility bills to spike, and prices could get worse in the coming months, according to economists.
Americans spent 3.6% more on electricity and gas in the third quarter of this year than they did during the same time last year, according to a study led by Bank of America economist David Tinsley.
And electricity prices rose 5.1% over the past 12 months through September, while gas service went up a whopping 11.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday.
That came as the feds and state governments have been offering financial incentives for companies to build data centers. There are an estimated more than 4,000 data centers currently in operation throughout the U.S., according to datacentermap.com, though there is no official count.
The Bank of America report, which was released last week, stated:
“The rising demand for electricity generation capacity and grid investments, due in part to the build-out of data centers, appears to be placing more upward pressure on bills.”
When electrical grids get enhanced to accommodate increased power demands from new data centers, at least some of the cost appears to get passed on to consumers, the report explained. On top of that, the increased use of electric vehicles has added to electricity demand, helping to keep prices high.
More electricity price hikes are expected this winter. The BofA report warned:
“Consumers may again feel the pressure on their utility bills in the coming months, particularly if the winter is a cold one.”
Meanwhile, expanding the U.S. power grid faces a number of barriers, with massive amounts of capital needed to build “more generation and transmission capacity,” the BofA report stated.
Regulatory hurdles and supply chain pressures also pose a roadblock, according to the analysis, who pointed to difficulties acquiring large turbines.
BofA warned that higher utility bills could hammer overall consumer spending.
Americans are already concerned about higher prices, sinking consumer sentiment to a five-month low in October, according to a University of Michigan report released Friday.
Higher utility bills also tend to disproportionately hit lower-income households, which are already dealing with slower wage growth, according to BofA’s report.
Despite intense pressure on the grid, tech giants have continued to announce massive investments in AI infrastructure.
Just last week, a group of investors including Nvidia, Microsoft, BlackRock and Elon Musk’s xAI agreed to purchase Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion.
Earlier this year, President Trump announced that SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle plan to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure over the next four years through the Stargate project.
In terms of energy usage, one question to OpenAI or Grok reportedly uses the equivalent of 40 Google searches.
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OilPrice.com reports that the U.S. administration of Donald Trump is applying pressure on Hungary to cut off its reliance on Russian oil imports and vows to work with Hungarian authorities and neighboring countries to help wean them off Russian oil supply, a senior U.S. diplomat says.
In a Fox News interview, Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, rejected suggestions from Hungarian politicians that the U.S. is giving Hungary a pass to continue importing Russian oil.
Whitaker told Fox, “Hungary, unlike many of their neighbors, has not made any plans or made any active steps. So we’re going to continue to work with them and we’re going to work with their neighbors like Croatia, and other countries that can help them wean themselves off.”
The U.S. official made clear that the United States expects Hungary to cut off Russian oil imports and come up with a plan to do so.
Hungary, whose top officials have remained in contact with Russia’s leadership including Putin, has continuously clashed with its fellow EU member states over plans to ditch Russian gas by 2027 and cut off oil supply from Moscow as soon as possible.
However, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban suffered diplomatic setbacks last week after the U.S. called off a Trump-Putin meeting in Hungary and then slapped Russia’s two biggest oil firms with sanctions.
Orban suggested that “The battle is not over yet” regarding Hungary’s choice of oil supply.
But the U.S. appears unfazed by the Hungarian pledges to find a way to work around the sanctions and is continuing to tighten the screws on the country until it capitulates and submits to American demands to boycott Russian energy products.
The U.S. is out of line here. Last I checked, Hungary was a sovereign nation. As such, it has the right to buy oil from whatever source it chooses, based on what makes sense for its people.
But the U.S. thinks it can order Hungary to stop buying cheap Russian oil and gas, forcing it to buy more expensive alternatives from the U.S. and its allies.
This is the same strategy employed against India. Trump tried it with China, but China refused to roll over, using its own leverage of threatening to withhold rare-earth minerals from the U.S.
The way I see it: This is hypocrisy coming from Washington and, at some point, the world is going to wake up and start asking the obvious question: Why is America the only nation that gets to put its strategic interests first?
If the United States gets to be AMERICA FIRST, then Hungary gets to be HUNGARY FIRST. And India gets to be INDIA FIRST. Anything less is hypocritical to the core and will end up hurting America’s standing in the world. Do as we say, not as we do, is no longer going to cut it.
That’s a recipe for more American resentment at a time when we need more friends in the world, not less.
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apparently, Tren de Aragua, MS 13, and any other “Venezuelan groups” are only here to take over apartment complexes…. because some outfit “the government trusts” hasn’t “identified Venezuela as a source of drugs” coming into America…. yeah, I guess we’re all idiots, right. MS13 and TdA and other gangs from Venezuela just want a place to live. The drug problem has nothing to do with them.
Anyway, it would seem reasonable to think that the revolt coming from the criminal illegals and the useful idiots “defending them” against being removed from our country would be enough to consider that perhaps there’s a link between that and the ships headed toward Venezuela.
And perhaps showing our abilities to accomplish this goal, should we be successful, might cause some of the other problem (from China) to correct itself.
Or, maybe sending ships to show our intention to win the battle against drugs in our country (er, I mean, removing people who just want apartment complexes to live in) might create a bigger uprising from those same people here illegally who just want nice places to live, and maybe ICE is just trying to remove them so Americans can stay in those apartments. “Because Venezuela wasn’t identified by the UN as a source of fentanyl,” so the assumption is, “therefore, they’re not a problem.” Who knew? Apparently, the war on drugs is only against fentanyl.
Maybe just sending the ships and making public the intentions will cause the cockroaches to be called home. Wouldn’t that be nice? Maybe it could free the spouses and families of ICE agents from the 8,000% increase in threats against them. Or, maybe Trump really is a war monger and he lied to us all.
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Some facts: MS-13 gang originated in Los Angeles, California in the 1980s and is made up of Salvadorans, not Venezuelans. Fentanyl and meth comes from Mexico, not Venezuela. Both drugs are manufactured in the deserts of Mexico and the American Southwest in clandestine labs.
There is only one Venezuelan drug gang—Tren de Aragua. This gang originated in Tocorón prison, which they turned into their fortress headquarters until they were raided by the Venezuelan military in 2023. A declassified US State Department memo said there is no evidence of widespread, organized cooperation between Maduro’s government and this gang. In September 2025, Maduro offered to assist the Trump administration to apprehend gang leaders of Tren de Aragua, but Trump refused the offer. In order to discredit his government, Maduro is accused by the US of being a Tren de Aragua collaborator, but there is no proof of this. Our beef with Maduro has really nothing to do with drug trafficking, but our coveting of their oil reserves.
We have an illegal migrant problem in the US because our local, state and fed government refused (under Biden) to enforce immigration laws for cynical political reasons. We should deal with our own officials for their willful negligence and force some of these subversive politicians to pay for the damages, thefts and violence some of these illegals have caused because of their policies.
Yes, Trump–and whoever controls him–is a warmonger and he lies to us all the time. Apparently, it’s his job and he seems happy to do it.
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Not sure why my comment isn’t posting on your website, but I’ll paste it here. I appreciate your work, but I think you are quite mistaken about President Trump. Leo, do you believe the boats blown up so far belong to some happy unfortunate innocents out for a midnight ride? Like it or hate it, we’re in the middle of world war 3, and we have been since 1945. I’m sure you’ve read “Unrestricted Warfare”, the PLA strategy for total war against the US. We don’t have the luxury of not fighting back on every front. How many years and how many tons of fentanyl, cocaine etc have come through on those fast boats? Venezuela is a Chicom/Russian/Iranian ally. Should Trump do nothing? When Tucker Carlson was shouting to the sky about Trump starting a world war in the ME as he prepared to bomb Iran, did you agree with him? Of course, the President wants peace; sadly, if at times, he doesn’t use the big stick, he/we will get more war. You make a big mistake equating the President’s actions with those of the neocons. Too easy to be a Monday morning quarterback.
Sincerely, Kevin Topalian
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Where’s the proof that those boats Trump had vaporized and the people he ordered murdered were actually drug cartel operatives? Neither our Navy or Coast Guard made any effort to board those boats and search for drugs or question the crew and passengers. This is standard rules of engagement according to international rule of law and the high seas. Are we not a nation of laws anymore? Or have we descended into lawless barbarism? Seems more and more we resort to assassination, theft, violent color revolutions and indiscriminate bombing to get our way rather than deal civilly and rationally with other countries. Are we so ruled by fear now that we should jettison all law and sense? Trump and the neocons’ excuse for all this mayhem is supposedly to “protect America”. How often in the last 60-70 years have we been told to shake in fear of little countries and bomb them into the Stone Age? Like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. What’s really happening is we’re out to destroy yet another 3rd world country so we can plunder it. It is we who threatens world peace more than anyone. Nobody in the world believes our BS about Venezuela, our excuses to bomb their people and kill their president. We are fed lies and propaganda 24/7. Just like the lies we were fed about WMDs in Iraq. We are led by the nose into wars.
Those little boats were 1500 miles from our shores—far from being any threat, no matter what they carried. Venezuela is not an important drug hub, Maduro is not a head honcho of a drug cartel, despite the slander from our neocons. If we really were serious about stopping the drugs in this country, then we should be working very much harder to deal with drug addiction, to upend the culture of illicit drug use that we allowed to dominate our culture for decades. Remove the market that buys illicit drugs. We must take responsibility for ourselves and not solely blame the problem on someone else.
Our hostility of Venezuela is because we want their oil fields. So what if Venezuela is friends with and trading with Russia, China or Iran–that’s their business. They are a sovereign nation. We have no right to dictate their friends or alliances, no more than Russia, China or Iran dictate what our friends or alliances should be. If Trump is stupid and vicious enough to attack Venezuela, then the whole of Latin America will become our enemy. Soon we will be friendless in this world if we continue down this path of mindless destruction.
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I don’t sense in your reply any confidence that our sovereign Lord, Jesus Christ is in control. But that’s beside the point. You can’t actually believe that innocent citizens are running boats that cost hundreds of thousands and outrun anything the Coast Guard has. Who but cartels would dare keep running suicide missions like this? Submarines? Where are the distraught family members crying out to the world’s leftist media and the UN on behalf of their dear ones, who just happened to be out cruising toward the United States at 150 mph all hours of the day or night? You actually put Russia, Iran, and Venezuela in the category of sovereign nations? Putin who murders journalists and former pals like the Wagner group? Xi, whose ‘nation’ harvests the organs of political prisoners? Who has devoured Tibet and will wipe out the Taiwanese when the coast is clear? Let’s include Cuba and North Korea too. I hate what the traitors in American society, in every institution to rot this country from within. It seems that you think the world will just leave us alone if we would just stay home.
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Kevin–
You said I didn’t evidence any belief that Jesus was in control. But it’s clear from your original comment that you put “your trust in princes and the son of man” (that is, Trump), when the Bible says “put NOT your trust in princes and the son of man, in whom there is no help” (Ps 146:3). And that’s not beside the point.
There is still NO proof who was on those boats and what they were carrying that justified our murderous attacks. Until that question is answered truthfully, no amount of guessing or assuming that those we killed were “guilty before proven innocent” is sufficient or just. And yes, there are reports of distraught family members grieving over their relatives killed by us. A Trinidad family was very upset about the death of their relative, Chad Joseph, as reported by the 10/16/2025 article in the NY Times. CBS News reported on 10/22/2025 that the wife of slain fisherman, Alejandro Carrazza asked “why did they (the US) take his life like that? Fishermen have the right to live. Why didn’t they just detain him? She swears her husband was not a part of the drug trade. Likely there are more such stories reported in the Spanish press. The American press is mostly following the government narrative that whoever our military kills is guilty as sin of whatever it accuses the victim of, which is why you don’t see too many stories about the grieving families. We’re supposed to believe that all the victims deserved to die at our hand.
That’s strange that you said Russia, China and Iran are not sovereign nations. Compared to what—us?? Next year we will be 250 years old as a sovereign nation. But Russia is over 1000 years old as a nation; China and Iran are over 5000 years as sovereign nations. They are indeed sovereign no matter how their leaders behave. And you should have no illusions about the lawlessness practiced in our nation in high places. For instance, the assassination of JFK and the coup d’etat that followed and its decades-long cover up. Ditto for RFK. Those were tremendous examples of criminality in our government and the story doesn’t stop there. Don’t forget our lawlessness in foreign relations—our many assassinations or violent deposing of foreign leaders since 1945. And also our wholesale robbery of whole nations through our debt institutions like the IMF. That’s why we’re hated around the world. In practice, we don’t stand by our high-minded principles stated in our founding documents. Instead, we are increasingly ruled by devils. That’s what it’s like to be ruled by “princes” and the son of man” anywhere in this fallen world.
As Americans, we’re taught to think we can do no wrong. That our police actions or military operations and invasions of the 3rd world are always righteous. But these all were massively and uselessly destructive, costing millions of lives over the decades we’ve been on this imperialistic tear. Our military even protected and traded with drug lords as in Vietnam and Afghanistan, allowing the heroin trade to grow massively and their product to enter the US, causing heroin epidemics in those years of our occupation. Or how the US was flooded with cocaine through the Iran-Contra operation that our government clandestinely conducted. Don’t you know that the drug trade has long financed CIA operations in Latin American and Asia—and how those drugs then gets dumped upon the American public for their consumption?
Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela etc, are not angelic, but then we sure as hell aren’t either. In fact, we’re quite nasty–just hypocritical about it. The US is slowly dying from massive and deep corruption. Our cities are becoming filthy, lawless dumps and too many inhabitants non-functional dope fiends. It’s not Russia, China, Iran or Venezuela causing this. We must face the evil within ourselves and quit projecting it overseas. We must face facts about what we’ve done and do serious repentance before we’re ruined. Otherwise we’ll continue to be duped by evil leaders into deeper evils and more wretchedness while we fight more forever wars—forever. Yes, we should stay home and clean our own house.
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You are insane. Latin America hates Venezuela. You are insane.
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Yes, right-wing Latin American governments hate socialist Venezuela. But that’s not all of Latin America. However, it doesn’t matter who hates whom or how much or for what reason. If the US starts bombing and/or invading Venezuela, causing mass casualties and another mass refugee crisis that spills over into neighboring Latin American countries, Latin America will indeed hate and further distrust the US. After all, we have a long history of abusing nations south of our border.
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@ktopalian
“I don’t sense in your reply any confidence that our sovereign Lord, Jesus Christ is in control.“
Hello ktopalian, you seem to be bordering on ‘fatalism’.
The truth is that there are consequences for stupid / bad, behaviour, America must take responsibility for it’s actions. America is the world’s greatest bully and recent history shows this to be the case . They make war in the guise of ‘peace’ and ‘defence’.
Having said that, I think you make a good point about the ‘go fast boats’ which can reach up to 80 mph.
But I think Trump’s motives for carrying out attacks inside Venezuela are more about bringing about ‘regime change’. This is a favourite tool of the American government. They bring down a government and then set up a puppet government which will act in America’s interests.
Here are some examples;
Iran (1953)
Chile (1973)
Iraq (2003)
BTW, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela are all sovereign nations.
If you think that “Trump wants peace” then your critical thinking is not functioning properly, as is the case with many Trump supporters.
Trump is actively supporting the genocide being carried out in Gaza and the West Bank by the Satanic , Zionist State of Israel.
I take your point about Putin and Xi. I believe that they are Satan’s puppets, in the same way that I think Trump is a puppet of Satan.
let’s not forget how Satan offered Christ all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, which Christ refused.
Some people are easily fooled. They think that when Trump or Putin claim to be Christians that they are genuine.
Just some of my opinions for what they are worth.
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