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US has made 'more than $13bn' from Venezuelan oil - but no one knows where it's gone
(www.thelondoneconomic.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2026
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One upside is that the normies wont be able to pretend things are okay any longer.
These actions are a festering wound on our chest. There is no hope for amputation, a cure must be found.
Why are things so blatant now a days? No subtlety. I dont believe the fully automated army is complete... so why show your hand this way?
Just like all the Germans who snapped out of it and stopped pretending things weren't normal in 1933, right before things got out of control!
I would argue that this blatant corruption was started by Dick Cheney when he was vice president. Before Cheney began openly defying precedent and the rules set in place, politicians did their best to hide their contempt for the rule of law and did their dirty deal making in the dark. Not ol’ Dick, though. He didn’t give two shits about what was legal or ethical and now here we are. The world is better off with that fucker dead.
i'm pretty sure kissinger started doing it decades before cheney.
And others before kissinger...
United States od America Marines with the captured flag of Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua in 1932
Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars
In many ways the blatancy has been a good thing, it's the level of corruption now by Trump, his family and cohorts that's way beyond 'out of control'.
But at least the rest of the world are watching and hopefully noticing similarities with any of their own politicians antics to compare.
Thanks to Trump, there are at least some telltale signs to be looking out for.
Hopefully Venezuela gets their oil money back and his filthy dirty rancid hands away from all of their assets.
His term already seems incredibly long.
Colombia just elected its own Trump. You can't make this shit up.
It's mostly that we let rich people buy up all media though.
What else do you expect.
If you give people the power to manipulate the way we relate to each other and to the world.
the normies are pretending just fine. they don't even know this is happening. they don't even remember where Venezuela is. Things are this blatant because they know they can be, because if people were serious about doing something about it the powers that be would be worrying about catching a bullet.
Because fuck you, that's why.
Honestly that's probably the only motivation trump needs.