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“As the world braces for a possible US war on Iran [,]and people in Venezuela, Nigeria, and Yemen still reel from recent US attacks, President Donald Trump—the self-proclaimed “peace president” who has bombed more countries than any other American administration—said Friday that the United States may launch a “friendly takeover” of Cuba.”

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Desperate rats are dangerous.

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A little friendly takeover of Cuba, a bit of a laugh with bombing Iran, just joshing around with some domestic concentration camps, annex Greenland and destroy NATO for the lolz, you know how it goes!

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They already have most of that at home.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What is so "friendly" about any takeover???

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a special ~~military~~ friendship operation.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Will THIS lower the price of cigars?

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The words that come out of the mouths of American politicians have absolutely no meaning.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh, they have meaning alright. It's typically the opposite of what they are saying.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

That's true if you know the code, you can often translate and get some meaning out of it.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

It's a financial disconnect. THEY cannot relate to US.

[–] YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Putin must be threatening to release the pee tape again.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Putin has Trump blowing Clinton tape

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Quit downplaying it. There are tapes of Trump raping children.

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

And it isn't Russia that has them.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Forty five! Forty seven!

Blew forty two!

Hut hut hike

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 1 week ago

Trump is in the Epsteinikof Files.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

You have to have something to have peace from after all.

Pox Trumpia.

I’d say pax, but with MAHA, pox will likely win out.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe his brain is so mushy that he meant a makeover of Cuba. Put up some flags, cut some grass, paint some buildings…

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If I didn't know better I'd swear he was just trolling to see how much and how badly he can apply his orange face paint before it becomes front page news as blackface. Everything his executive does seems like a troll. "Operation Midnight Hammer", the president who craves a nobel peace prize but starts a panel of dictators called "Bored of Peace", his insistence that bad bunny's dancing was to provocative for children when his own dance is a literal double jerk off dance and he's felated multiple microphones on live tv, I'm sure there's more ..

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Enslave Cubans to the pedofile parasites and take away their healthcare and schools

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 1 week ago

We will achieve peace, even if it means killing every single other person, and we had to kill them because they're violent.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Bruh if we take over Cuba then where do the ICE agents send them to? 🙄