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Vogon_Glory

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2. Maybe Rubio or some Venezuelan emigre convinced him that attacking Venezuela would
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:08 PM
Aug 29

Be a cake-walk like Daddy Bush’s invasion of Panama in 1989. Donald John being Donald John, he probably assumed that whatever competent Presidents like George HW Bush could do, he could do better.

Little details like the Venezuelans having a sense of nationalism and national identity and that they might feel that it’s their duty as Venezuelan patriots to resist an invasion and that Venezuela is way bigger than Panama (and also larger than either Iraq or Afghanistan) probably didn’t occur to God-Emperor Trump or his underlings.

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