Dr.NickFor the second time this year, the US military has been sent into a foreign country to remove its leader.
It's February.
There have been nine weekends this year.
22% of this year's weekends have had U.S. invasions.
From a President wanting the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who formed a council for peace.
Make no mistake. These two invasions are about oil.
Venezuela holds 17% of the world's oil reserves.
30% of the world's oil travels via Iranian territory.
Western oil supply is already constrained by the Ukraine war.
Oil sets the price for everything. Not just the petrol for your car, but the food on your table.
Inflation is going to go even more insane.
Ciarán (mc)@devxvda This framing is fine but you also need to mention who they are taking oil away from, most of Iran and Venezuela's oil goes to China. Strategically that is who they see as their biggest enemy and they are planning on winning a nuclear war against them.
Steve Hersey@devxvda
I think there are several different motivations pursued by different actors in the administration.
I think there are several different motivations pursued by different actors in the administration.
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Jamie@devxvda ... and yet he'll be even more apoplectically angry if he doesn't win the Nobel prize next time and will, once again, blame the Norwegian government for not awarding it to him. He just assumes the whole world works the way he works (or doesn't). In his mind there are no longer any independent agencies or committees in America - they do what he tells them to do, or they are threatened/fired/blackmailed. Ipso facto all heads of state do the same.
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Michael WestergaardMaybe you don’t know, but it has been documented that war is peace.
Dan HattonThere has always been a route to the Nobel Peace Prize via doing something appallingly violent for a long while, then stopping doing that something. The Rabin-de Klerk method, one might call it. Trump has got the "doing something appallingly violent" part down.
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craignicol@devxvda who are they targeting next month?
V'ger@craignicol @devxvda North Korea
The Boxing Kangaroo@craignicol @devxvda for oil? Greenland in March, Canada in April?
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Xenotar@devxvda With the support of US parliamentarians, NATO, all European leaders, and the majority of Europeans. This was the case with Venezuela and continues to be the case with the genocide in Gaza. The support of "Western civilization" for the fascists in the US and the fascists in Israel is a disgrace. I will never forgive this support.
DNKrupinski 🧡🏴☠️@devxvda … and it's 2026.
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Nicole ParsonsTrump deludes himself that he can cancel elections if he starts a world war, if he is paid enough to do so.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/28/politics/iran-strikes-congress-war-powers-trump
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@devxvda And the Orange Turnip is miffed he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize? What a dangerous buffoon.
Army of the 12 Muskrats@devxvda
Maybe we can send it to a domestic country and remove our leader.
Maybe we can send it to a domestic country and remove our leader.
Mark Asser@OrdRadical @devxvda We're all waiting for them to get on with that.
Lstn2urmama 🇨🇦@devxvda HEY OTHER COUNTRIES REMOVE THE ONE DOING THE REMOVING OF OTHERS... 😉
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Rupert V/@SuperMoosie @devxvda Bet you'll reconsider giving me the Peace Prize when American tanks are rolling down the streets of Oslo, Olaf.
Wintergreen29% of the world's crude oil reserves have had their heads of state forcibly removed.
Granted, Iranians are justifiably happy (for the moment), but this isn't about freeing people from oppression.
Myanmar has festered through every invasion this century, but it doesn't have any oil. As such, that corrupt oppression is acceptable.
GeraintLlanfrancheta@devxvda well, both were allies of #fuckrussia, so, whatever the reasons, i'll take it. Thanks.
Maria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️@devxvda
Regime Change Of The Month Club
I wonder who October will be?