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The Truth Behind Maduro's Capture | It's Not What They're Telling You (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 days ago by ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to c/politics@beehaw.org

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he United States carried out a special-operations strike in Caracas, Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores who are reportedly being taken to Manhattan to face criminal charges for drug trafficking. In this video, Max breaks down what’s really behind this stunning intervention, perhaps the most brazen and illegal action undertaken by the U.S. since Kissinger’s secret bombing of Cambodia. He talks about all the angles portrayed in the media from narcoterrorism to oil, reveals what’s more likely behind our actions and how Marco Rubio is intimately involved.

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[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I naturally agree with the basic premise that the issue is oil not drugs.

I question that deficit spending is either threatening or threatened within the US. Further, I find it a tenuous case that US companies are not eager to restore the control of Venezuelan oil that they maintained preceding nationalization, such eagerness being more than sufficient to account for the motives of US action against Venezuela.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 days ago

For real. The US Government has pulled worse shit for banana companies. The idea that we'd do this for oil is utterly unsurprising. I mean, just look at Iraq

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 points 3 days ago

Excellent analysis. I wish some of it were surprising.