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Gaugamela

(3,253 posts)
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 11:54 AM Jan 3

Trump just now: We will run their country and take their oil.

The legacy press is going to eat this up. They can push this with patriotic gusto for months, like they did the invasion of Iraq. They’ll act like the Epstein files don’t matter anymore because we’re a nation at war and it’s time to rally around the flag and the commander in chief. This will probably work as a distraction and help his poll numbers.

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Attilatheblond

(8,321 posts)
3. So, precident set? Bad leader & oil OK to invade, kidnap and take over oil fields?
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 11:57 AM
Jan 3

Trump better pack his jammies and orange makeup before somebody comes for him. And Texas, Oklahoma, Alaska, and other states better beef up their security before some nation decides on taking their oil.

GreenWave

(12,371 posts)
6. Panama taught the world, we foment a fake revolution
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 12:53 PM
Jan 3

and a new sovereign nation carved away from Colombia.

Attilatheblond

(8,321 posts)
10. And US policy towards several other Latin American countries created the violence that led to migration to the US
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 02:29 PM
Jan 3

Refugees are often the result of US foreign policy, but since so many here eschew learning history, we refuse to recognize refugees and call desperate people criminals.

Attilatheblond

(8,321 posts)
7. Wondering if it might be one more of his business plans; take over cocain imports
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 12:58 PM
Jan 3

Seems to be a sure bet in today's global market

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/473845/cocaine-fentanyl-mexico-drug-trends]

The Trump administration has been telling Americans that fentanyl is so widespread, it’s a “weapon of mass destruction.“ But according to the Washington Post’s Mexico City bureau chief Samantha Schmidt, fentanyl isn’t the drug the administration should be paying attention to — it’s cocaine.

Globally, supply and demand for the drug are surging, according to Schmidt. And that’s happening amid a changed cocaine landscape, one that’s evolved from the kingpin-run trade of the ’80s. The drug might conjure images of Pablo Escobar and Al Pacino’s Scarface, but today’s reality is less the big bad coke boss and more like a proliferation of smaller outfits trafficking in cocaine.

As Schmidt told Today, Explained cohost Jonquilyn Hill, “It is a much more globalized business than before, and it works in an entirely new way that makes it much more difficult to combat.”

underpants

(195,024 posts)
9. Interesting. A second thought, let him run Venezuela
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 01:13 PM
Jan 3

like GO THERE and run it and don’t come back.

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