Message from @mattforney
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HAHAHAH
A FUCKING PEDO, A DRUG ADDICT FIGHTING
And the fat dude sounds like cookie monster
lmao
Matt, I've got a question about the US embassies
Who staffs them and who appoints the people who work there? Are the staff American? Who chooses the staff in the US embassies?
I believe it’s the civil service who staffs them
Because they have to be apolitical
The ambassadors are Presidential appointments
@Trunksüchtig what @balaclavaman said
Thanks guys
What would prevent parts of the staff from approving visas like crazy in the case a wall is built? Assuming the appointment is apolithical, the staff does have their own bias anyways.
border control can still turn away people even if they have visas
if they are suspicious of you they can detain or turn you away for whatever reason they please
you basically have no rights until your passport is stamped
Yes, that is usually the case with people who are trying funny stuff, I've seen it. But would it filter people just trying to get in and overstay their visa with their cousins?
yes, if they're coming from countries where people have a history of doing that
people from third-world countries generally get scrutinized harder than those from wealthier countries
Good. Hopefully they get this down right if a border wall is built.
Insane theory: Russia only supports them to fuck with America.
@Tiamatfleisch Russia has billions of dollars in loans invested in Venezuela. If Maduro goes, all that money goes with him.
Why betting so much money on Maduro in the first place?`
they want access to his oil fields
and Maduro needed the loans badly given how he fucked his country's economy
First this then that
I know, its Russia Insider, one of the places where you can find REAL Russian Propaganda.
I think this is their real intention besides the cheap Oil. Maduro is piss weak which makes it easy for Putin to do such crazy crap. I have no idea whether Russia actually needs Venezuelan oil or not.
The antics from the Article I have linked make all 4 of your tweets automatically correct by the way. If America cucks out on Maduro, you can wipe your ass with the Monroe Doctrine, because even Mama Russia has Bombers that can reach the US from Venezuela.
Nobody NEEDS the venezuelan oil. But its a lucrative foothold to have for every geopolitical actor. Pretty much just Cuba 2.0, except not really as dangerous.
The oil is just a perk, a byproduct.
yes, a lot of geopolitics is not about GETTING stuff, but KEEPING the other guy from getting that stuff
that's why Montenegro is in NATO: it's strategically useless to the U.S., but they wanted to deny Russia a port on the Mediterranean
For a begining understanding of geopolitcs I would recommend becoming familiar with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History of course don't just stop with LaWiki...
Enjoy:
WTF?