RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoU.S. Ran a War Game on Ousting Maduro. Venezuela Fell Into Chaos. [Published November 2025]www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down12
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minus-squarezabadoh@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·5 days agoOddly enough, the article doesn’t mention the possibility that criminal gangs will start taking over where there isn’t strong government. And wherever there’s gangs, drug trafficking infrastructure quickly follows, which would backfire on Trump’s flimsy excuse for the invasion.
minus-squareAnchoriteMagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·5 days agoIf this were about drugs (or they even cared that we believe it’s about drugs) he wouldn’t have pardoned Balsonaro.
Oddly enough, the article doesn’t mention the possibility that criminal gangs will start taking over where there isn’t strong government.
And wherever there’s gangs, drug trafficking infrastructure quickly follows, which would backfire on Trump’s flimsy excuse for the invasion.
If this were about drugs (or they even cared that we believe it’s about drugs) he wouldn’t have pardoned Balsonaro.