this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2025
76 points (100.0% liked)

World News

844 readers
865 users here now

Rules:
Be a decent person, don't post hate.

Other Great Communities:

Rules

Be excellent to each other

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Deceptichum@quokk.au
Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com
PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au
76
Trump warns of ‘incalculable price’ if Venezuela won’t accept ‘prisoners’ (www.aljazeera.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social to c/world@quokk.au
13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Honestly that sounds like more work than Trump or the current crew of leadership wants to do. I think what they're planning is more likely to be just to keep blowing up fishing boats and blustering until (a) Venezuela caves or (b) they get distracted and just abandon the effort for some other equally pointless and violent activity.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Honestly, a good summary of the second Trump term will be simply "an equally pointless and violent activity."

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Venezuela cannot "cave".
It is completely dependent on oil revenue. When the US backed opposition in Venezuala said they would not give away the oil industry in the last election, the US abandoned them and had their supporters in the US deported.