ah! combatants

i like it

sounds strong

LOL... liked the NPC meme @Broo TulsiGang 2024 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

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Speaking of coups.
It's worth watching the whole thing, but I'm linking at the most relevant part.
https://youtu.be/jZq6UOiBu_Y?t=104

so..

why is the US doing a regime change in soon-to-be-"independent" venezuela?

no

The US isn't the only one who backs the Interm President...The world Minus China, Russia, Turkey, and some random socialist/Islamist nations have all backed it.

Oh and the Holy See, cause the Pope is a Socialist.

so the US and its allies/client states back the regime change

Mexico

not unlike libya, iraq, etc.

syria

Bit different there. Many nations were against it.

Mexico hasn't backed him... could be interesting how this reflects on US mexico relations

Didn't mexico do what the Holy See did?

And chose neither side?

Mexico has not backed Guiadó as they side more with Maduro, just not publically

Wait no, they did publically. Apparently his predicessor was Pro Guaido, but wanted Peaceful Resolution. But Amlo went full ham for Maduro.

Also Tero "Turkey" is supposedly one of our allies.

But the ones against just want clearly wanted a satellite state.

But tbh, Venuzueala was an inevitable. The nation has been in gradually worse shambles for a very long time. Unlike Syria and others that were decent economically and then insurgency.

It was an inevitable steamroll from when Madero began seizing production.

while i'm not defending venezuela's economic performance or government
the list of oil rich nations the US has "regime changed" grows ever longer

it's called democracy <:pepe_smug:560207654207750154>

Syria, Libya, and afganistan don't have major oil markets

And we didn't hold the oil in Iraq, that was lost rather quickly to others.

Nor was there a regime change in Syria, last I checked Al-Assad was still in charge.

Just because a people rise up, and the US goes "Hey you all have had shit lives, let us support you." doesn't mean "US INSTIGATED COUP!"

Especially when the world minus those who either share Madero's ideology, or want them as a satellite state, all come out in support.

Friendly reminder the US is a net oil *exporter*.

Also Syria, Libya, and others we got pulled into because of ISIS/SAUD.
At this moment even in shambles Ven is the number 2 OPEC supplier, if they get their shit together and be stable and productive, they can overtake Saud. Then that chain all you "MURICA IS IMPERIALIST" cucks cry about is severed, because SAUD wouldn't own the largest export anymore.

Venuzuela becomes a true democratic free people who don't have to starve, and the world gets freed from Saud chains...win win?

@Jym We arn't quite a Net Exporter of "Oil" in general, we still consume more crude and 'other' than export, but we are a Net exporter of 'finished products'. The thing is tho, our consumption and production are so close it isn't a dire need.

but if trends continue, we will be a net exporter of both within 5 to 10 years

Completely unrelated, yet somehow still interesting:

Markets in which American full sized trucks are sold:
* North America
* Gulf States

Isn't that the same thing? Gulf states are in North America

Huh, seems europe Pickup market is growing.

For American Pickups

I just had a idea. Like you know how the media uses guilt of association if you platform or talk to people on the far right, right or whatever is deemed far right by the far lefts definition. Like what if it’s from a underlying premise that the left has a preference for people with similar preferences to for their narrative and which is why people like Sargon, dank, Tommy, ect don’t get platformed because the narrative agrees that their opinions are wrong think and there by inconceivable in the lefts view, despite platforming actual white nationalists to fit their narrative

two or three things
libya has a ton of oil, and was producing nearly 2 million barrels of oil per day before being regime changed
syria hasn't been regime changed _yet_, bc russia stepped in to prevent it but you're right about them not having oil
>And we didn't hold the oil in Iraq, that was lost rather quickly to others.
this doesn't really matter, it's more about ensuring that the oil-having countries are under US control than anything