• Bilb!@lemmy.ml
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    There seems to be some confusion among the commenters here. Delcy Rodríguez is not María Machado. Machado is the one who got the Nobel Peace Prize and is not acting president of Venezuela. Delcy Rodríguez is the former Vice President who took over.

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      And is also, according to Trump at least, also not the acting president. The acting president according to Trump is… Trump

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    8 hours ago

    Here come the bombs again then…

    Never, ever accept help from MAGA. That is your lesson.

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    What is she complaining about? All the countries in the world have been taking and following orders from the US for the last 75 years and have been happy about it. They don’t like offensive comments from the current president. But orders? Just give us more!

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      “This is totally unacceptable. Venezuela would never take threats and orders from the United States. We maintain our sovereignty against such an audacious adversary. Anyway in unrelated news, we are opening up the oil industry to privatization to help stir the economy. I can assure you this idea was 100% of our own making and has absolutely nothing to do with American demands.”

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    11 hours ago

    What an incredibly absurd and unpredictable situation. It’s hard to say who is in the more precarious position, her or Trump.

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      She is a hardcore Communist. Her father was a guerilla leader in the Venezuelan jungle. It was obvious to anybody, that she would betray Trump at the first oppurtunity. However being able to sell oil to the US and pay some money to Trump directly via some Qatari payment scheme is still much better then having full blown sanctions on Venezuela. Rodriguez is also a realists and understands that this is actually an oppurtunity to strengthen the country, if it is played smartly.

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      Not really. This is as basic as governments get. She says this for her base and people but also is doing what America wants behind the scene. Come on guys. Is this your first government or what?

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    Trumplestiltskin probably wants her to pay for his Gaza hotel scheme. So the money won’t go to him directly it’ll go to his satanic son-in-law Jared the Antichrist kushner. So it’ll never touch Trump’s hands it’ll just touch by proxy. As long as he gets a penthouse with a view of the Mediterranean and a view of whatever golf course he puts there he’ll be as happy as a fat pig

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      Trump is the antichirst in this. After all he has all these people wearing those hats with his mark of the beast on them that they voluntarily wear on their foreheads.

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      8 hours ago

      and convert their foreign currency exchanges to $TRUMP, build a few TRUMP hotel and resort complexes and lease all of the mayor ports and pipelines to the US…

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    11 hours ago

    Wannabee dictator does not like taking orders. Applies to both Donny and Delcy.

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    11 hours ago

    Looks like Miss Nobel prize might have another crack at the office

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    Venezuela speed running propped up puppet government I guess. Usually took other countries a lot longer to get to this point. CIA is slacking.

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      Well here in the US we’ve been speedrunning Germany in the 1930s, so it tracks that the places we fuck up and try to control would also be speedrunning their own thing.

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        We don’t need to speed run another country, the United States’ founding ideology is that the genocide of an entire continent is a good thing.

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      If my US intervention timetable is right, by the end of next month Venezuela will be controlled by ISIS

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    lololololol

    These dumb bastards always, always think ‘he’ll never turn on me!’ despite literal decades of evidence to the contrary.

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    But she gave him the Nobel prize! Shouldn’t they be frens?

    Edit: I haven’t had coffee yet my b

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    Bye, Del-cy-sha.

    Ok, I don’t wish her harm or any ill will. I just know that, in this meat grinder of international diplomacy, theres a cost if she tries to push back on Lord Farquaad’s wishes. He’s already promised he would harm her — like every other woman he’s ever encountered.

    Beneath the politics, almost certainly, Delcy Rodriguez and María Corina Machado both want what will benefit Venezuelans. Or, perhaps, they only want to serve their own supporters. Regardless, neither of these women will gain from participating in the Game of Thrones that Washington has engaged.

    Also, Angela Means’s quest to vindicate Felisha has merit. Much is assumed about her. Few, if any, care for her. These are the stories we promote. This is the world we promote.

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      No, she was the second in the regime.

      The Trump admin felt it was probably more effective to give the current regime a slap to let them know who is calling the shots, but otherwise leave the regime largely intact. If they can just get the same Venezuela as it already existed, just as a vassal state, mission accomplished.

      Versus Machado, who was the opposition leader trying to ingratiate herself with Trump up to giving him her peace prize in hopes of having the US implement her indirect electoral victory in 2024. Trump administration has shown zero interest in making that happen.