news

373 readers

777 users here now

A lightweight news hub to help decentralize the fediverse load: mirror and discuss headlines here so the giant instance communities aren’t a single choke-point.

Rules:

Recent news articles only (past 30 days)
Title must match the headline or neutrally describe the content
Avoid duplicates & spam (search before posting; batch minor updates).
Be civil; no hate or personal attacks.
No link shorteners
No entire article in the post body

founded 4 months ago

MODERATORS

dude@lemmings.world

CIA carries out first drone strike on Venezuelan soil in latest escalation of Trump admin’s attacks on ‘narco terrorists’ (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by dude@lemmings.world to c/news@lemmings.world

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah.

It's been apparent from the start that we weren't getting the full story about what's really going on with Venezuela, but I had a few theories about it.

The CIA's involvement makes it likely that the correct one is that this war against drug traffickers is actually a turf war - that the US is not attacking Venezuelans in an attempt to stop the flow of narcotics (which is a fool's errand anyway) but in order to seize control.

Just as the CIA did in the past with heroin in southeast Asia and cocaine in central America...

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you spelled oil wrong

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The CIA deals in narcotics

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

not like that

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 1 points 1 week ago

aren't they trying to reschedule marijuana in the US?