The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set
Also, too, largest known oil reserves in the world and right-wing exiles in Miami pushing regime change like they're developing exploding cigars for Castro
The last time these right wingers took control of any part of Venezuela they funneled $30 billion out of the Treasury and immiserated the country. prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...

The $30 Billion Identity Theft...
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela

How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault

The American Prospect
@ddayen.bsky.social the difference is: Venezuela has oil, Felon 47 wants that urgently & is willing to go to war for this, generating any crazy narrative, in this case he chose "war against drugs", because it didn't work on Canadians, might as well recycle the story. The person he pardonned, Juan Orlando Hernandez, is helpful to him personally to cover his drug needs, it positions him right at the source. No hypocracy, just a net of lies, he sometimes gets too entagled in.

@Ilka4You
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#Venezuela has oil, #felon47 wants (it)

US #fossilfuelindustry gets #taxbreaks and #oilsubsidies while making billions of profit from everybody

@ddayen.bsky.social
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stop #fentanyl trafficking from a country that does _not_ traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking ⭕drugs himsel

Sounds like the #russianpropaganda that #zelenskyy is taking drugs. I heard this misguided BS from an eastern #Ukrainian teenager and BBC

@KimPerales
Thx 4 orig David boost

@ddayen.bsky.social a perfectly cromulent action by God Emperor Trump. What's the problem?