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See, the media needed to practice “what the hell are you talking about” before this moment. He’s a deluded psychopath surrounded by bloodthirsty psychopaths who keep making things up (what land rights? who’s “we”?) to get everyone there on board with more death & destruction.

Mexico did the same thing in 1938. They celebrate it as Oil Expropriation Day every March……

Gerald Ford was the president on Jan. 1, 1976 when this happened.

So, hang on; maybe I’m nuts, but how did Venezuela steal land from the states?

PAEDOPHILE

Didn't Trump technically kick our companies out when he extended sanctions on Venezuela to include their energy sector?

Narrator: The oil and land always belonged to Venezuela. It is their country.

What the hell is he talking about?

We do not own the oil in their country. We had companies that drilled there, but in the 70s, their new administration wanted to take it over for themselves. Seems reasonable to me, our companies were told to leave and were compensated for their equipment. He is out of his mind.

I'm not a poli-sci expert or anything, but I'm 99% sure that he has a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation.

China will have something to say about this.

Uh oh, Gerald Ford is in a LOT of trouble!

Remove the criminal!!!

Gosh, sounds like quite the peacemaker

I guess the whole goddamned WORLD belongs to the United Fucking States...or at least in (what's left of) his mind..

Going back further, iirc, shit got bad in Persia when they decided to keep more of their oil money. So the Brits threw out the leader. That worked out great.

Sounds like an opportunity for diplomacy, not war.

no drugs then? what happened about the drugs???

He sounds like Putin rationalizing the invasion of Ukraine.

Huh. How much pressure did he exert on Intel for that 10%? We there really NO other buyers/loaners? Every accusation is an admission

If anyone’s confused, this is what happens when you elect a 34x convicted felon and wannabe mob boss as president.

Unless Venezuela use a very long straw to suck oil away from the USA under the Rio Grande, the only way I can think of for one country to "steal" oil from another is to snatch it off a boat on the ocean. And so far only one country has done that lately.

So we are just going back to the ole 1800s imperialist interventions in Latin American for vague reasons that are devoid of logic

He’s a moron.

The USA isn't a real country. It's just an oil company with a navy, an air force and an army. It's been that way for over a century and it isn't going to change soon.

Gerald Ford?

He’s like a child who watches another child with a toy he WANTS. Dude, just because you want it, doesn’t mean you get it. I want you to not be the President but I’m not getting what I want either.

Sounds a lot like what putin was ranting on about before he invaded Ukraine.

I miss having a president who had a grasp of what a sovereign nation is.

Putin is also fond of his own revisionist history.

We'd better hope that England doesn't take any cues from this...

He is so F'ing delusional

Mad dogs usually get put down as a safety precaution for all others

Why couldn't that guy aim?

We could be leading the world in solar wind and hydro and here we are saber rattling out of our minds for oil

Remember the good old days when all you needed to do was give free university to rich south americans who hated commies, then send them back to overthrow any socialists and then they'd let us in to steal all the stuff...? we're cutting out the middle man these days, it boosts profits.

What the fuck was Kamala going to do to our country that is worse than this pos?

My favorite word: impeach!

Somehow Venezuela stole all the oil from us and managed to store it thousands of feet underground.

What in the fuck is he talking about? When did America have land in VZ? Oil rights, maybe? But this is decades ago.

Trump is carrying on the grand tradition of America deposing foreign governments for oil.

It just keeps going and going and going and.....

Venezuela is like the kid in the school yard that has no friends. Trump wanted to beat up on someone, so he picked the easiest target. Sick.

Please lock him up. He's so batsh!t crazy, so narcissistic that he makes up statements to justify the insanity. When will reporters challenge those crazy statements. This: "What land sir is ours? Show me a damn map."

The Big Lie #1,000,000

Trump took $1 billion campaign donations as long as he agreed to oil & gas’s own version of “Project 2025.” They own him. fieldnotes.co/reporting/ax...

He is f*king nuts and I can't count on congress to control him. He is out of control

Trump acts more like a deranged Gollum than a clear thinking president. “It’s ours, ours and that nasty Maduro stole it from us, precious.” What is he going to do? Declare war without congress a week before we celebrate the birth of the King of Peace?

can't believe his supporters are ok with starting a war on this colonizer bullshit greed & entitlement. "our rights" dude, wtf

Him, Jared, Vlad and some assorted Arabs.

Well, darn that Gerald Ford!

He's so full of shit.

GW Bush was president at the time.

Possible explanation that Demented Don is unable to articulate: www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

exercise full control, including possession, use, & disposal, over all its wealth & natural resources. The nationalizing state can revoke mining & exploration licenses, essentially transferring the rights to exploit the resources from a private company, foreign or not, to the state itself. 3/3

Who's oil? How did it become our oil under Venezuelan soil?

Blood for oil rights?

The Corleone Family would like to talk about Cuba now…

His fake, illegal problems are not justification for war

Once again Trump doesn’t actually understand history. And guess it’s never been about drugs - so why the killings?

They’re already doing that with their blockade. bsky.app/profile/rgoo...

The overarching illegal order will be troop deployment. And I assume it's very hard to say no when your unit is shipping out.

Fuck the stormtroopers they're hard and raring for it and I hope they all die

Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away … But they're not gonna do that. We want it back … Native Americans would like a word.

Likely obscene amounts of cocaine and speed.

He'll say and do anything to move attention away from the Epstein files.

He sounds just like Putin wanting Ukraine back. I know it's all about oil but damn, he's just imitating Putin.

Where is he going? I thought he was delivering a speech from the Oval Office in a few hours.

The Putin Principle of Armed Conflict: If our country has EVER been involved with another country, we have a right to “take it back” blah blah blah.

Just a minute...is he talking about the waters around and land beneath...Venezuela??? Do i have to check international law on this one? Or is it safe to assume that the one who had Elon Musk tinkering the voting machines in PA & ? might be wrong?

He’s making shit up SO HE CAN STEAL OIL…stop going along with this BS.

So… he’s using the same “reason” that Putin is using for Ukraine. Ok yeah yeah they stole from us our historical lands and rights in Venezuela. Remind me again of those

Just because we are a banana republic, he thinks it is the age of banana republics again.

He has no idea what we 'had', or what was 'taken away', he's just badly parroting what he was fed, which are complete fabrications to justify theft, war, and murder. "We want, so we take" is the mantra of the right. Damn them all to hell.

You are going to have to walk me through the whole the US has first dibs on Venezuelan oil thing.

Saying the quiet part out loud.

🤬🤬🤬

Wanted: Grifting Back?

I hope this is the final straw. The man's a Nutcase.😡

Venezuela nationalized the oil industry in 1976. Maduro was 14 at the time. Funny how this just became the US’ number one priority just as (checks notes) a shit ton of Epstein files are about to come out. Also,the tech broligarchs want the rare earth metals that are there.Keep your eyes on the ball.

Is he talking about stuff that happened in the Gerald Ford administration in 1976? What am I saying? He has no idea

🛢🛢🛢... it was always about the oil.

A 2010 lawsuit that we lost to Venezuela 🇻🇪 is, I think, what he’s dredging up. ☮️😘🎄

The fuck is he blathering on about...?!

hmm...by this logic we should be invading Saudi Arabia

So now big oil is manipulating trump into a war? I thought the weapons of mass destruction/cocaine? Was the reason to play tough. Pick a damn lane. No one can keep track.

American First Nations to Trump..."Land rights.. they took it all away. But we are not going to do that. We want it back. They slaughtered our people.... "

We ALL knew it was about oil. At least he now admits it.

Trump’s entire second term so far has been about pleasing his billionaire buddies. Now he’s going to start a war to jack them off even further. We’re back to the United Fruit Company days when corporations were dictating foreign policy.

Soooooo….peace prize now?

It's Venezuela's oil, not ours just because we once had companies there. trump and Big Oil want to milk every last penny out of fossil fuels with NO concern for the damage to our planet and everything living. trump's actions are illegal. Tell your congressional reps: No War with Venezuela!

War crimish?

FUN FACT: Venezuela nationalized their oil industry in 1976. bsky.app/profile/atru...

People in this country have no understanding at all of the history of Venezuela or why or who nationalized the oil. They have no idea of the amount of destruction ExxonMobil and Conoco Phillips and Shell have rought on South America and its people. Its time for major news channels to cover that.

#FckTrump

Absolute criminal behaviour.

It has been/is an excuse for little boys to play video games and build pretend kingdoms. This administration has the maturity level of sophomore (wise fool) hs’ers at an all boys school. Religious fanaticism thrown in for good measure. “Facts be damned! I believe!”

Short and sweet: oil

Gulf of Tonkin 2.

IMO for Trump's entertainment

And all this time I thought it was about a bad Filet-O-Fish he thought might of been caught of the coast of Venezuela. He is a fuc.. ng lier.

They werent drug boats actually, they were the worst smallest tankers

I think it was meant to provoke counterattacks to use as justification. Now it's "screw justification, we're going in".

Oh yeah, I forgot about that.....

Got briefed by his handlers in some roundabout way of saying they want that oil

The level of "bogus" is astronomical. The Republicans in Congress are going to have to do something.

I apologize to every old lefty whom I eye-rolled at when they went on about "American Imperialism".

Iraq War 2: Electric Boogaloo We all knew it wasn't about drugs

Good point.

In 1976 they nationalized the oil, so yes, but almost 50 years ago…

Grandpa is pissed about something that happened before I was born? (I am 43)

They took our oil while our president went to the washroom. Then they hid it underground in their country.

I'm feeling the old antiwar slogan: "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" Trump knows nothing about "giving a war." He doesn't have anywhere near enough assets in the area to try anything other than a decapitation attack, which is kind-of what I'm thinking he will try.