This made some kind of sense (but not much) when Russian import ammo was cheap, now it's just a deformed oddity

This investigationn has completely neglected to determine whether the chile on his plate was hotter or not

Signing an oil lease for "100 years" really suggests that there were no oil guys involved in the deal at all. This is very likely just more Trump art of the deal Deals (TM) whose only purpose is the headline. Venezuela has also shown the ability to treat C-suite oil guys with the correct level of respect and why wouldn't they return to that in the future? They swapped a mid leader out for another one, they didn't kill the communes.

Time to hop to a new distro that isn't Debian based

Whoah whoah whoah, are you suggesting people might need to know something about Venezuela before making sweeping doomer declarations? Fuck that, being a leftist is about vibes and being smarter than those third worlders

The westerners watching this through their phones want to see epic battles and instant imperial defeats and until that happens every other country is failing them

He's been saying he wants to make Ukraine the Israel of Europe for a few years now. Westerners just don't pay attention to world news unless it's spoon fed to them along with explicit instructions about how to feel.

edit: since at least 2022 https://www.jpost.com/international/article-703335

Putin should sit at his very big table and make kushner and witkoff sit at a much smaller table in the corner

"Hey Vance, stop pretending you're talking to Iran, you can put the phone down we all know it's not on"

Same thing with Machiavelli

It might sound like cope but it's just factual, the political establishment has been frothing at the mouth to attack Iran since the revolution while the military and intelligence agencies staffed by less ideologically driven people have been saying it's a dumb plan that won't work based on the reality within which we exist.