šŸŒŽ "Trump has arrested a murderer, a dictator, a drug lord, and here is why it's wrong and bad for the USA." - Maduro's arrest in Venezuala

24and7 said:
The US military has put a massive amount of money into acoustic weaponry..
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I don't believe that's a state secret.

The general point I was making was missed. That's not an interview (which I called exaggerations) it's a press release.

I'll grant the possiblity the possibility the guard put key words in as prompts and this is what Grok rendered.
 
Trump decided to leave the communist leader in place... because he did not want to eat his words about "Regime Change" and "Nation Building" ... so sadly all the celebrations in the streets by the Venezuelan people seems to be premature... not much will change in Venezuela...
 
24and7 said:
so sadly
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Sadly some Americans still get their thrills from their government spending money it doesn't have in overseas exploits ... even while it continues to fail Americans at home. For too many, greatness is still defined by abstract narratives fabricated in Langley, VA, newsrooms, and in think tanks rather than defined in concrete, simple, empirical metrics like birthrates, marriage rates, living standards, protected borders, savings rates, life expectancy, rates of homelessness and drug addiction, rates of homeownership, etc.
 
TerryP said:
IF we're getting the natural resources from there versus Russia, China...
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Thatā€™s neither a necessity nor the goal of our intervention. We have Canada and Mexico. Plus if I recall, the US recently became a net energy exporter several years ago anyway. Besides trade promotes peace, diplomacy, and cooperation. On the other hand, sanctions, NATO expansion, military exercises off the coast of China, etc., crap like this CREATES enmity and enemies. Hell, I was even reminded recently that Putin once asked to be admitted into NATO decades ago. I think it was Dubya who refused. The M.I.C. needs perpetual conflicts and perpetual threats, both real and imagined.
 
TerryP said:
Another no
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We've been Canada's largest recipient of oil exports for a long time. To think we don't (and haven't) dominated trade in our hemisphere for the last century is naive. Actually we've even dominated not just hemispheric trade but global trade, especially in energy, consuming upwards of 25% of global energy production! To suggest we need Venezuela's resources when both of our neighbors have serviced us for decades is wrong. Now admittedly, more and more countries have been trying to escape the USD matrix. Venezuela is more important to us in the sense of keeping competitors "out" than putting us "in." But toppling yet another regime, isn't the way to counter the momentum of BRICS and the rising global disdain for the inflationary USD. We're confusing the remedy with the cause. We're stuck in this vicious cycle like every fallen empire before us: more war and more graft to "save" a system that became broken by the addictive nature of graft and Military Keynesianism. More sanctions and more regime changes are the sign of a desperate and weak system, not a healthy one.
 
TerryP said:
Did you just suggest I'm naive?
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You know I don't know the first thing about you, so stop being a snowflake. I suggested precisely what I said. To think the most powerful empire in the history of the world doesn't get its way on trade ... particularly in its own hemisphere ... and particularly in the energy sector since that's what has propped up the USD for so long ... that is a naive perspective, among other things.
 
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