Dr.NickFeb 28

For the second time this year, the US military has been sent into a foreign country to remove its leader.

It's February.

SMillerNLMar 1
Show threadDr.Nick

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.

Feb 28 at 9:12pmWeb
Show threadDr.NickFeb 28

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.

Show threadCiarán (mc)Mar 1
@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.
Show threadSteve HerseyMar 1
@devxvda
I think there are several different motivations pursued by different actors in the administration.
Show threadSean MurthyMar 1

@n1xnx this. Self enrichment of the POTUS being a/the key motivation.

@devxvda

Show threadDźwiedziuMar 1
@devxvda
I'll “yes, and” that by saying that both Venezuela and Iran have a possibility of insurgencies that will hit 'murica where it hurts. In the pipes.
Show threadzxmFeb 28
@devxvda fifa will be wanting their peace prize back! :-P
Show threadJeremyJupiterJones Feb 28

@zxm @devxvda

#FIFA should take their ball back and refuse to play with the Americans.

Show threadJamieFeb 28
@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.
Show threadLes LoreFeb 28
@devxvda Not to mention the invasions of states within US borders
Show threadideaPDishMar 1

@devxvda

Sir Prize

Show threadMichael WestergaardMar 1
Maybe you don’t know, but it has been documented that war is peace.
Show threadDan HattonMar 1

@devxvda

There 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.

Show threadamaliaMar 11
@devxvda Pathetic.