I used to think that the Iraq War was the stupidest war in history.
I was wrong.It will be the Venezuela War that Trump is going to declare on Wednesday.
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And here is a Reuters article that describes how Trump has been increasing pressure on Venezuela this year.Four days to go to release Epstein files. Which means he’ll go to war with Venezuela in the next three days.
— Mr. Spock đź–– (@spockresists.bsky.social) December 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Do people realize this legally implies a state of war between the United States and Venezuela?
— Paul Nadeau (@pauljnadeau.bsky.social) December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Silverman posted a series on Blue Sky about what the Trump administration is doingVenezuela is not completely surrounded by an armada, because Venezuela is not an island. Also, Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in 1976, when Hugo Chávez was 21 and Nicolás Maduro was 13.
— Adam Isacson (@adamisacson.com) December 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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It terrified me to see the reference to Canada too.
Back in March of 2003, in Salon magazine, co-founder Gary Kamiya wrote a brilliant piece called Sleepwalking Toward Baghdad, about America's hysterical dash into war with Iraq. His words ring true again today:
...we have gone from being in a political moment to a historical one.But, like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Trump actually wants to go down in history.
I use the words somewhat eccentrically, to distinguish between events that are simple enough to be fully explicable (“political”) and those that are too complex to be defined (“historical”). The war against Afghanistan took place in what I am calling the political realm: It had a clear, limited and achievable goal, one understood by all — and widely supported around the world. The impending war against Iraq, on the other hand, is a historical event. It cannot be explained or defined. When it comes, it will simply exist, with the opacity of history. Its outcome is not foreseeable.
The distinction also has a moral dimension. To exist in history is to have passed beyond the pieties and slogans of the political. History is tragic: politics is not. History is glorious. It is also fatal.
....The lesson every government should have learned from the bloody 20th century, one written in blood across the tortured soil of old, very old Europe, is very simple: Avoid history at all costs. History is too big, too abstract, too dangerous. Avoid men with Big Ideas — especially stupid men with Big Ideas. Take care of politics: let history take care of itself. In a word, don’t play God.
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War Bob Marley
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another inferior
Is finally and permanently
Discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war
Me say war
That until there no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
Me say war
That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all
Without regard to race
Dis a war
That until that day, dream of lasting peace, world citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained
Now everywhere is war
War
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola
In Mozambique, South Africa
Sub-human bondage have been toppled, utterly destroyed
Well, everywhere is war
Me say war
It's weirdly impressive in a way. I mean, the US has been making wars to grab other people's resources for a long time. And informally, the sarcastic idea that the Americans consider those resources somehow inherently "theirs" has been around for a while; "How did our oil end up under their sand?" and all that.
But only Trump would officially claim that as a casus belli. Like he's literally saying that he's going to war because US-owned resources somehow ended up in Venezuelan soil. He's making official the old Noam Chomsky point that US foreign policy all makes sense if you start from the assumption that the United States owns the world.
FFS, PLG.
They already own Christianity , why not ?
What I cannot understand , maybe not, is how the world economy has not totally collapsed under Trumps derangement ?
It is , perhaps, a signal that deceit, greed and immorality are the preferred choices of mankind??
TB
The WORLD economy is influenced more by the Chinese than the Americans at this point, and the Chinese are doing fine.
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