“It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs,” she claimed in a social media publication.

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    no actually its to distract from the epstein files, first and foremost, oil is a side benefit. the amount of info coming about trump being a depraved pervert is really getting to him.

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      people forget that trump was already going to go to war with maduro in the previous election when he was president. around 2018. trying to get rid of maduro. this has nothing to do with epstein and all to do with oil.

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        24 days ago

        I think it’s a little of this, a little of that.

        Though it’s not like this wouldn’t have happened under a Harris presidency.

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      If he’s going to fuck whole nations now, I though he’d go for South Sudan, as it’s now less than 15 years old as a state.

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        Venezuela was a far easier target than a landlocked country in a part of the world where the US isn’t a major imperial player. Maduro was the perfect bad guy for him; an unlikable dictator who bullied neighboring countries over their own oil supply.