Well, yeah, it was pretty obvious that Trump did not control Venezuela since he has no troops on the ground.
He’s just been threathening the current Venezuelan leadership with personally getting the same fate as Maduro, but that’s not at all the same as controlling the actual country.
No amount of struting like some prized rooster by Trump on this (like he does for just about everything just before he TACOes) alters the reality that a special ops kidnapping isn’t anywhere near the same level of military commitment as an invasion and at most will deliver chaos rather than control.
Not to mention, Trump essentially has to keep that military force ready at all times to keep the pressure, or pull it away from other places he’s threatening, like Iran. By the time the fleet is back on it’s way Rodríguez just has to play nice for a while again and eventually mother nature, midterms, or whatever form it will take, will take care of Trump.
I know who’s getting kidnapped next!
Gosh I hope it’s me >:3
There seems to be some confusion among the commenters here. Delcy Rodríguez is not María Machado. Machado is the one who got the Nobel Peace Prize and is not acting president of Venezuela. Delcy Rodríguez is the former Vice President who took over.
And is also, according to Trump at least, also not the acting president. The acting president according to Trump is… Trump
Tbf the onion is a more credible news network than that guy.
I haven’t known this woman long but all I have seen so far is her saying one thing and doing another.
She says she isn’t going to just be a US lackey, but her actions sure show she is.
Best thing she can do is tell Trump to F off, and follow up actions with it.
The conflict is rather between different narratives being pushed. What are actual actions that she took cintrary to what she says? Trump and a lot of the media wants to push the narrative that she is cooperating with the us… so we have to look at actual actions rather than misquoted words here and there.
What an incredibly absurd and unpredictable situation. It’s hard to say who is in the more precarious position, her or Trump.
Her. It’s her head that might go off next. For Trump is just Monday.
History has a way of dealing with fascist.
It’s Monday until it’s their last Monday.
It took a string of military failures, a famine, and a lot of dead Italians before that picture could be taken.
And 23 years of tyranny.
This is America. We dont do accountability here, tyvm
Considering she’s in charge because the USA simply kidnapped her boss, I’d say her.
One of them has the world’s largest economy and military at their command and the other is literally in a room that the last guy guy kidnapped from.
Here come the bombs again then…
Never, ever accept help from MAGA. That is your lesson.
She didn’t. You’re confusing the acting president with the woman that won the Nobel prize. They’re different people.
may or may not be true. the source is ‘four sources involved at high levels’, which does not inspire confidence, especially if those are americans with a vested interest in the Venezuelan people turning on Rodriguez so that they can easily install their own person if need be.
Puppet government forgot how 2 puppet already?
Not really. This is as basic as governments get. She says this for her base and people but also is doing what America wants behind the scene. Come on guys. Is this your first government or what?
Wannabee dictator does not like taking orders. Applies to both Donny and Delcy.
I think we can drop the “wannabe” at this point
as she works to unite the country
LMAO
Venezuela speed running propped up puppet government I guess. Usually took other countries a lot longer to get to this point. CIA is slacking.
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.
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.
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.
If my US intervention timetable is right, by the end of next month Venezuela will be controlled by ISIS
Wait, I thought Trump was their president now. He must have realized he can’t kidnap himself.
It was a brilliant, tremendous kidnapping, I aced it! That’s why they left me in my place.
Strong mission accomplished vibes
What is she complaining about? All the countries in the world have been taking and following orders from the US for the last 75 years and have been happy about it. They don’t like offensive comments from the current president. But orders? Just give us more!
“This is totally unacceptable. Venezuela would never take threats and orders from the United States. We maintain our sovereignty against such an audacious adversary. Anyway in unrelated news, we are opening up the oil industry to privatization to help stir the economy. I can assure you this idea was 100% of our own making and has absolutely nothing to do with American demands.”
Have they actually opened up to privatizations? Or is it just talk here and there?
lololololol
These dumb bastards always, always think ‘he’ll never turn on me!’ despite literal decades of evidence to the contrary.
But she gave him the Nobel prize! Shouldn’t they be frens?
Edit: I haven’t had coffee yet my b
Wrong person
Thanks for catching that I’m not awake yet
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Bye, Del-cy-sha.
Ok, I don’t wish her harm or any ill will. I just know that, in this meat grinder of international diplomacy, theres a cost if she tries to push back on Lord Farquaad’s wishes. He’s already promised he would harm her — like every other woman he’s ever encountered.
Beneath the politics, almost certainly, Delcy Rodriguez and María Corina Machado both want what will benefit Venezuelans. Or, perhaps, they only want to serve their own supporters. Regardless, neither of these women will gain from participating in the Game of Thrones that Washington has engaged.
Also, Angela Means’s quest to vindicate Felisha has merit. Much is assumed about her. Few, if any, care for her. These are the stories we promote. This is the world we promote.
