"While it might seem too early to say how Americans view the intervention, it appears to have monumentally backfired. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted January 4–5 found that just 33% of Americans approve of the intervention. That figure is only slightly higher than approval of the Vietnam War in 1973, as U.S. troops were withdrawing from the country."

~ Andrew Wilson

#Trump #Venezuela #Greenland #Epstein #ApprovalRating
/2

"Heading into the fifth anniversary of January 6, there was pressure mounting on Donald Trump, including from Jack Smith’s recent testimony on Capitol Hill and DOJ’s failure to release the full Epstein files. Given that context, we’re forced to consider whether Trump’s attack on Venezuela is, at least in part, intended as a distraction."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #Venezuela #Greenland #Epstein #ApprovalRating
/3

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-sunday-morning-wrap-up-e9e

"When Trump asked ExxonMobil’s CEO Darren Woods [on Friday] how long it would take Exxon to restart operations there, Woods called Venezuela 'uninvestable,' suggesting it wasn’t a matter of Trump just snapping his fingers. First, 'significant changes have to be made.'”

~ Sabrina Haake

#Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites #Exxon
/4

https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/big-oil-is-big-skeptical-about-trumps

"Woods told Trump bluntly that, 'There are a number of legal and commercial frameworks that would have to be established to even understand what kind of returns we would get on the investment.'

To a failed businessman selling himself as a savvy one, that assessment must have come as a shock."

#Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites #Exxon
/5

"After violating international law, mocking in particular the UN Charter that has kept WWIII at bay for 80 years, Trump gave U.S. oil executives their marching orders: they must rebuild Venezuela’s fossil fuel industry.

But after bankrupting six businesses, killing small companies with illogical tariffs, and closing one failed business after another, Trump’s hyped business acumen is thin."

#Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites
/6

"As Friday’s meeting made embarrassingly clear, Trump has no clue what it will take to rebuild Venezuela’s rusted out oil infrastructure. ...

Given that the rule of law under Trump is already on life support, businesses are taking a wait and see approach, even here. Trump commanding his donors to rebuild Venezuela’s oil industry under these facts while he 'runs' the country sounds like delusional gibberish.

#Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites
/7

"Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, asserted Monday that Greenland 'rightfully' belongs to the United States and suggested the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it chose to."

~ Brian Daitzman

#Trump #StephenMiller #Venezuela #Greenland #Epstein #ApprovalRating
/8

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stephen-miller-says-us-could-take

"In a CNN interview with Jake Tapper, Miller declined to rule out using military force after repeated questioning. 'Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,' he said.

Miller framed the dispute as a question of power, not treaty restraint."

#Trump #StephenMiller #Venezuela #Greenland #Epstein #ApprovalRating
/9

Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina responds to Stephen Miller's statements about the US "taking" Greenland:

"I'm sick of stupid."

Thanks, Sen. Tillis. A whole lot of us are sick of stupid right along with you. The nation is awash in it right now — and when your party starts acknowledging its responsibility for bringing us to this point, we'll listen.

Thanks to Peter Brown for sharing this.

#Trump #StephenMiller #Venezuela #Greenland #Epstein
/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf9_KLRTzGs