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  1. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    Lithium is heavily controlled, it’s not banned. Sure, you can’t take a device with more than 100WH of lithium battery as hand luggage, but you can’t take a jerry can of AvGas in your hand luggage either for exactly the same reasons. And yet they run planes on AvGas? They have lithium battery...
  2. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    The truth is finally out, the real reason why Trump assembled an armada off the coast of Venezuela and sent in a special forces team to snatch their President. It’s not oil. It’s not drugs It’s not democracy It’s not China influence It’s not narco-terrorism … it’s that Trump felt Maduro was...
  3. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    Russia - Nobody knows, not even Russia. North Korea - Only the leader? They’d become a serious terrorist state. Leader + Sister? Probably not capable of much without leadership. It’s not just about what would happen next if they did that … … what would be more scary is what would happen...
  4. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    Dunno, but from the US point of view it’s moot because they do not recognise Maduro as being an “international leader”. They (under Biden) never recognized that he was the legitimate winner of the 2024 election.
  5. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    Russia would have seen the large buildup of US military assets off the coast of Venezuela so they could take an educated guess about what was going to happen next. Same happened with Ukraine. The US could see exactly what Russia were doing in the build up to the invasion.
  6. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    No. He’s so tired of his own meandering that he’s placed himself on ignore.
  7. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    I’m shocked … … Stephen Miller has a wife?
  8. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    So what are you going to do about it?
  9. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    You don’t think the Trump administration would have had a discussion about Venezuela with the oil companies? No way would they have bothered with this circus if Chevron, etc were simply going to say “Nah, we’re all good, we don’t need Venezuelan oil”.
  10. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    By “they” you mean the oil companies? Oil from different sources has different costs to extract and refine. And has different capital amortization schedules. So even with a low sell price, a low cost source may still be making heaps of profit. Oil has been 25% cheaper than it is today and...
  11. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    Think about it from the point of view of an American voter, what do they care about? It’s the forever wars. Wars are meant to be won. They’re not meant to go on forever and being expensive and spilling the blood of American sons and daughters. The voters don’t like that. What has happened...
  12. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    He got elected. That kept him out of prison. It would have been the easiest thing in the world for him to kick back and do SFA and spend his days playing golf? And yet he hasn’t? You really think he’d prefer the Ukraine war to continue?
  13. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    How would he have achieved that? Some ideas: Trying to bully the Fed Reserve Chairman to lower interest rates (didn’t work) Trying to lower the price of oil by taking over Venezuela (lowering the price of oil by $10 a barrel lowers inflation by around 0.2%). Jury is still out whether this...
  14. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    Are you suggesting he didn’t campaign on it?
  15. 76woodenspooners

    Play Nice 47th President of the United States: ████████████ - Part 23: Si buscan capitalismo, aquí está!!

    [ Not arguing anything. Only seeking to rationalise it / understand it. A politician’s campaign platform is surely relevant, even though they usually fall short?
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