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Related: About this forumHuge Pentagon Scandal🚨 Is Hegseth is funneling money to Trump???
Just a quick 3 minute video....food for thought....
This Texan reports a reasonable rationale for the Venezuela attacks...it's not oil but money laundering??? Also some special ore can be minded from there too...
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Huge Pentagon Scandal🚨 Is Hegseth is funneling money to Trump??? (Original Post)
FarPoint
Dec 7
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Gaugamela
(3,363 posts)1. Actually, there's nothing new about using American foreign policy (military/CIA) to
advance the interests of American companies. The 1954 coup in Guatemala for the United Fruit Company, for example. Most of our invasions and coups are followed by an infestation of carpetbagger US companies looking for an easy buck. This will get swept under the rug as business as usual.
enough
(13,711 posts)2. Unfortunately every generation has to "discover" this again.
Be Leave On
(411 posts)3. This has been going on for a long time.
As Gen. Butler said about the gangsters he worked for starting in 1898.
https://jonathanmkatz.com/gangsters
