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[–] rozodru@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Venezuela speed running propped up puppet government I guess. Usually took other countries a lot longer to get to this point. CIA is slacking.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

I think Trump assumed he'd already set up a puppet government. He made a deal with the VP, she got bumped up to president when Trump took out her boss. So, she's a puppet, right? But, it doesn't seem like she ever had any intention of becoming a puppet, and Trump has no leverage to force her.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Well here in the US we've been speedrunning Germany in the 1930s, so it tracks that the places we fuck up and try to control would also be speedrunning their own thing.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

We don’t need to speed run another country, the United States’ founding ideology is that the genocide of an entire continent is a good thing.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 23 hours ago

If my US intervention timetable is right, by the end of next month Venezuela will be controlled by ISIS