WOW! I never expected this! tRUMP is screwed!

@swirlie I don’t know if this has actually kicked off—but the pieces are in place and Venezuela has this option along with the other countries mentioned.

What they have done (and I’ve posted twice about this) is enter into pacts with Russia and China regarding their oil. These pacts are operational and have placed the tRUMP misadministration in “check.”

Venezuela is setting up these international long term treaties to outfox tRUMP in his plot to gain their oil.

There are certain to be more escalations in the near future. Right now, Venezuela seems to have outplayed tRUMP.

@KunsanVeteran
If tRUMP isn't careful, he may find himself surrounded off the coast of Venezuela.... and then escorted back to the USA kicking and screaming the whole way!

@swirlie Demented Donnie is widely and wildly unpopular in South and Central America. Venezuela has used his personality and personal history against him. They have also been crafty regarding their dealings with oil poor powers as well as large countries such as Russia, China, and India which are always in need of more oil.

Venezuela has leveraged its vast oil reserves into international influence and while that may not be great for their future, it’s coming to their aid now.

If Demented Donnie continues his present course he is inviting direct conflicts with China, Russia, and other countries who have growing economic, political, technological, and market interests with them.

In the meantime, both Putin and Xi have publicly demonstrated for years just how accomplished they are at manipulating tRUMP. And Demented Donnie has surrounded himself with unfit idiot “yes” men and women of whom he demands absolute loyalty and if any try to warn him he is on the path to ruin they are “removed” in one fashion or another.

@swirlie Actually, Demented Donnie’s own actions have removed any “swing to careful” option.

He has made reckless “profit ME!” decisions his platform and when he tries to back track, it rattles his power base to it’s very foundations. Witness his claim that he would release the Epstein Files. Now, yes, he never had any real intention of doing so, but he said it anyway because he thought his base would love that…but he counted on he would be able to simply quietly side step actually doing it and his low IQ brainwashed base would forget about it.

WRONG!

Now he’s screwed up big time with these extrajudicial murders and his chosen “fall guys” — particularly Bradley aren’t exactly playing by his script like Allen did. Credit Michael Cohen for being the first to not fade quietly into the night…

Any swing to “careful” would be seen as betrayal by more and more of his base — including the MAGAs in Congress who want to be re-elected and were foolish enough to hitch their wagons to him…

@KunsanVeteran
Beautifully written and exceptionally comprehensive. As usual, great work!

@swirlie @SomeMichGuy Thank you! And I certainly feel the same regarding both of you and many others here. Each of you raise my awareness to issues, people on all sides of the political spectrum, inequities, legal decisions & cases, and so much more that I otherwise would have missed.

Your perspectives are enlightening and thought provoking. Both of those qualities are sadly lacking of late…