• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    The US military doesn’t need to step foot in Venezuela in order to cause unimaginable death and destruction. This is by no means a boast. People need to understand the implications of a deranged and senile narcissist having access to the most powerful armed forces the planet has ever known. That is not hyperbole.

    • Jhex@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      The US also cannot steal the oil remotely… they’ll need to invade if they plan to take more than the tankers at sea

      Having said that, this absurd, ill conceived plan, is more intended to hide the fact trump is a pedophile a likely a child sex trafficker, than anything concrete about taking oil

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        12 hours ago

        The US can bomb Venezuela into submission if there are truly no guard rails in place like right now. I do not put it past trump to nuke the Capitol to get an immediate surrender consequences be damned. He seems like he really wants to push that big red button.

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          11 hours ago

          Agreed… but again, how are you going to steal the oil in a radiated, toxic wasteland?

          The infrastructure for the oil industry in Venezuela is falling apart (turned out to be a saving grace now), you can bomb the crap out of the rest of the country but, at the very least, Venezuelans will destroy whatever little infra is left.

          With the Orange Pedo being 79, he won’t see a drop of oil going down that way

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            10 hours ago

            Because from a bomb it’s not really radioactive that long from my understanding. Less than 2 years until an area is habitable again, but it would need to be monitored. Add to that the distance between the capital and where the oil reserves are is a few hundred km. Bomb the capital, get the surrender, steal the reserves. No need to send your people where the radiation is.

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                8 hours ago

                I don’t play a lot of video games that involve that. But I did work on nuclear reactors in the Navy. To be fair that was a long time ago so I may not remember the specifics.

                And to be clear I don’t condone the actions (I think it’s fucking abominable). They just don’t seem to be far fetched from my armchair.

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                  7 hours ago

                  Oh shit EOOW or xxN? And yeah you’re right modern nukes don’t actually leave a ton of radiation long term. People think nukes are dirty bombs not understanding the difference.

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                    3 hours ago

                    ETN. Then I went on to get a BS in Nuclear Science and Engineering, but to be fair ACE let me skip a whole lot of shit. So my knowledge is a couple of decades old, slightly obscured by years of alcohol abuse (that didn’t start but kicked into high gear at NTPU Ballston Spa), and not focused on bombs. As I recall there’s a way to make a nuclear weapon that leaves everything a nuclear wasteland rather than just a bombed out husk that involves carbon or cobalt or something. But the best I could do is try to remember formulae while someone is getting bombed to hell by it.