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Kemper Boyd
Aug 6, 2007

no kings, no gods, no masters but a comfy chair and no socks

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

A year or so ago Maduro tried to hire assassins to kill Marco Rubio because Rubio had said mean things about him, but they immediately ratted him out after leaving Venezuela.

I'm not saying we should do anything to Venezuela (we shouldn't), but that's the most legitimate causus belli America has had in decades.

Still, it's Marco Rubio tho.

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Kemper Boyd
Aug 6, 2007

no kings, no gods, no masters but a comfy chair and no socks

psydude posted:

So basically the same premises behind the Iraq war.

e: Why aren't we running with our usual LATAM playbook of letting the CIA mess things up by backing right-wing paramilitaries.

Roughly ten years back, there was a bunch of articles kicking around how the CIA has no resources left to do pretty much anything in Central/South America because the WoT hoovered up every resources. So, probably because of that.

Kemper Boyd
Aug 6, 2007

no kings, no gods, no masters but a comfy chair and no socks

Torrannor posted:

A lie detector test is still bullshit, even if it reinforces our currently favored narrative.

Looking from over here, the American obsession with polygraphs is baffling.

Kemper Boyd
Aug 6, 2007

no kings, no gods, no masters but a comfy chair and no socks
Yesterday, the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation carried out one of the biggest police operations in recent history, raiding a Russian-owned company that has purchased strategically situated properties in the Finnish southwestern archipelago. The company has built bunkers and helicopter pads on their property, local administrators have given them special permits to do so without any questions asked.

https://corporalfrisk.com/2018/09/23/a-dawn-raid-in-the-archipelago/

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