The Venezuelan government said Monday night that they had foiled a Trump administration-backed plot to stage a “false flag” attack on a U.S. warship currently stationed just off its shore, The Independent reported Tuesday.Yvan Gil Pinto, the Venezuelan minister of foreign affairs, said in a statemen...
  • Xerxos@lemmy.mlEnglish
    44·
    1 天前

    I think Trump would love to start a war: distraction from the Epstein files, a nice scapegoat for economic hardship, the possibility to grab even more power under the guise of wartime emergencies, …

    Hell, if it takes long enough he could postpone the next election.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      20 小时前

      Don’t be naive. Trump isn’t running anything.

      Trump struggled to name 20 animals in a row, dealer’s choice. Thought the dementia test was an IQ test, bragged that going past 10 animals was hard.

      “I took– Those are very hard– They’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump.”

      He continued, “Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don’t think Jasmine– The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.”