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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Pornographic Memory posted:

at some point the number of countries the us sanctions are going to reach a critical mass and just inadvertently create a viable segment of the world economy independent of the us right?

when the US withdrew from the Iran deal and reimposed sanctions that prevented Iran from using SWIFT for bank transfers, the EU started work on an alternative to SWIFT, called INSTEX, so that they could continue conducting "legitimate" trade with Iran within the confines of the JCPOA

that process was accelerated when the US said that it wanted to sanction even transactions going through INSTEX, and the first transaction using it was completed in March this year, in order to facilitate the procurement of medical equipment and supplies to Iran to assist them with COVID-19

INSTEX began as a pact between France, Germany, and the UK, and later expanded to Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden

one big milestone is when Iranian oil becomes included in the system, something that the US State Dept is pushing against

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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1273751525060423681

Ah heck the people at USAID might be racists???

Trump's people aren't as good as keeping the kayfabe up

Echo Chamber
Oct 16, 2008

best username/post combo
I only just saw the story.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

guaido, getting a cavity filled, talking shop about his coup plans on his instagram

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1274910217508196352?s=20

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod



remember the bad photo-op for maduro? when his troops burned those aid trucks? the news exposed how vicious and malicious maduro was!

oh, but then people worked out that the opposition burned their own trucks, and the media started talking about how mistakes happen, but maduro is still very certainly bad

i guess the point of my post is that I'm more certain now than I was before that the opposition burned the trucks on purpose

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011


I supported Trump im 2016 for anti imperialist reasons and hell I'll support him again now

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Plutonis posted:

I supported Trump im 2016 for anti imperialist reasons and hell I'll support him again now

Lmao you idiot

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out
Trump is an anti-imperialist because he feels embarrassed when the coups he supports fail

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Plutonis posted:

I supported Trump im 2016 for anti imperialist reasons and hell I'll support him again now

Thank goodness you don't get a vote

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Plutonis posted:

I supported Trump im 2016 for anti imperialist reasons and hell I'll support him again now

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1275072468709859328?s=21

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006


Plutonis posted:

I supported Trump im 2016 for anti imperialist reasons and hell I'll support him again now

:thunk:

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1089178211387359232?s=20

galenanorth
May 19, 2016

I don't think anyone is stupid enough to believe a "hashtag propaganda-spreading challenge" marketing campaign, like the "make the Golden Arches out of granular household objects challenge" or whatever, would work on anyone, except for politicians

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

what is this

what does this mean

is Marco Rubio just tweeting out terrible selfies and adding nonsense text to them?

I'm scared

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-video/under-pressure-over-video-venezuelas-guaido-says-met-officials-idUSKCN1PL00L

i'm pretty sure guaido was caught on security cam in a grey hoodie heading to these meetings, and rubio is pulling an 8 mile in that tweet by jumping out ahead of it

he's pretty stupid so i don't think it actually works like that

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

repost that in italian pride groups and say "ey you sees what he's callin' us??"

Prince Myshkin
Jun 17, 2018

Condiv posted:

remember the bad photo-op for maduro? when his troops burned those aid trucks? the news exposed how vicious and malicious maduro was!

oh, but then people worked out that the opposition burned their own trucks, and the media started talking about how mistakes happen, but maduro is still very certainly bad

i guess the point of my post is that I'm more certain now than I was before that the opposition burned the trucks on purpose

Before one truck was set on fire an opposition person was seen hurling a Molotov at another one.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

that tweet's from 2019

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
https://twitter.com/dinosaurthe3rd/status/1275432089677160448?s=21

Optimus Subprime
Mar 26, 2005

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/pol...xon-ap-reports/

this entire article is a roller coaster

learned that pdvsa gave $500k to the trump inauguration committee

pdvsa contracted a Venezuelan dissident former house rep $50 million to lobby for Venezuela to trump on sanctions

former rep Pete sessions took a secret trip to Caracas to meet Maduro and then tried to make a deal between pdvsa and Exxon where Venezuela would give them part of the Chavez oil belt

the board of citgo is appointed by Juan Guaidó and is now suing Rivera, the former congressman now Venezuelan lobbyist (also a alleged domestic abuser)

poo poo is wild

cool dance moves
Aug 27, 2018


Ha sido un placer postear con ustedes o7

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1275555026526703616

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/Southcom/status/1275476615657590786?s=20
https://twitter.com/mfox_us/status/1275941340807933952?s=20

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
I should try to conduct a freedom of navigation operation at my local bank vault

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



did they just fully cancel elections? last i saw they were postponed but i thought courts or something said they had to happen within a month, and all polls showed MAS leading

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

did they just fully cancel elections? last i saw they were postponed but i thought courts or something said they had to happen within a month, and all polls showed MAS leading

Sorry, can't because of covid. We'll get back to you on that.

uninterrupted
Jun 20, 2011
https://twitter.com/business/status/1278322496337580032?s=21

quote:

The Americans were dressed in beach gear with their wallets on them, which he speculates might be because they tried to escape by boat, perhaps to nearby Aruba, when the raid plans fell apart. “Look, I fully expect to call my brother an idiot when I see him again,” he says. “But he knows how to run a combat operation. And it involves having a firearm. And pants.”

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1278382032788369409?s=20

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1278636495641993217

quote:

The UK High Court has ruled against Venezuela's government in a legal battle over access to $1bn (£820m) of gold stored in the Bank of England.

It said the UK had "unequivocally recognised opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president", rather than President Nicolás Maduro.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 19 minutes!
so can they just hand the money over to guaido and let him use it to raise an army if he asks for it then

Corky Romanovsky
Oct 1, 2006

Soiled Meat
Gonna be a run on the bank?

Some Guy TT posted:

so can they just hand the money over to guaido and let him use it to raise an army if he asks for it then

I think creditors will siphon off most or all of it before that could happen.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

$800 million can buy a lot of cocaine and Colombian hotel reservations

https://twitter.com/CIJ_ICJ/status/1278047381263659015?s=20
https://twitter.com/JebSprague/status/1278913335958704128?s=20

I don't particularly care about Venezuela's claims against like half of Guyana, it's just wild how Guaido can go around pretending to be in charge of Venezuela still.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
Interim President For Life Juan Guaido

somehow simultaneously not yet the president because his interim term was only supposed to be like a month long so clearly it must not have started yet, but also the president forever in his ability to make decisions like bargaining away land claims and spending gold reserves

guaido declared himself president literally eighteen months ago and this charade is still going on

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 19 minutes!
wait so the president of venezuela sold away territory rights to get a guy in london to put his countrys money in a dragon vault where noone can use it

i dont think hes very good at being a president

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
you assume the putting it in the vault wasn’t the point tobegin with

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


https://twitter.com/SamAdlerBell/status/1279106029108768783

OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo!

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
to be honest the fact people are recognizing sanctions hurt people is some sort of progress

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brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


vyelkin posted:

Interim President For Life Juan Guaido

somehow simultaneously not yet the president because his interim term was only supposed to be like a month long so clearly it must not have started yet, but also the president forever in his ability to make decisions like bargaining away land claims and spending gold reserves

guaido declared himself president literally eighteen months ago and this charade is still going on

Whatever you want to say about Maduro's legitimacy, there is no way Guaido has any at all.

Almost as if the "international community" doesn't actually care about democratic legitimacy

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