We are long past peak oil. Look I’m not saying we’re not going to need oil long into the future and its use for aviation is currently unsurpassed but the argument is our reliance on oil is waning as newer technologies have come into play, especially in the power generation and automotive sectors. Chemical and plastic production is still vital and that can’t be done without oil. We’re not getting away from using it for a long tine but it’s past it’s peak.

What Dumpy forgets is supply and demand (because he’s one of the worst business people ever) and releasing more oil into the market from his imperialist acquisitions means a drop in value - even the oil execs were apprehensive as to whether the takeover of Venezuela and being told they need to fix up their processing was a good thing as they don’t want the market flooded as that will cause the cost of oil to plummet.

Thats because he’s stuck in the 80s. It’s common for people with dementia to fall back to a time they thought was good and for him, it was the 80s when oil was king.

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I’d be happy with Nuremberg too, as they love fascism that much, lets give them another piece of it.

Sounds like he they got an abortion.

Arrest them!

And his surname is a fart

Not at all, but she did win the last election soo…

Democrats haven’t sunk to that level at all. Wtf are you talking about. Dems have written strongly worded letters asking for violence to please stop, protested a bit and blown some whistles. Meanwhile MAGA and their paramilitary (ice) have gone around killing people. They are not the same.

Not suggesting violent retaliation, because that is what the right want - they’re trying to provoke violence, but there are other non-violent disruptive behaviours that could be enacted

That was a choice by the Trump administration. They could have removed the entire cabinet if they wanted to. They probably, and I may be giving them more credit than they deserve, hoped that showing the remaining cabinet what could happen would mean they would do as Trump asked. Mob tactics.

Also they probably thought creating a power vacuum wouldn’t help either because it never does. Ever. Ever ever. History has proved that SOO many times.

When the enemy has no morals or ethics, what do you do?

The US has always wanted puppet states in the Americas. Sure, she’d be beholden to the US, for now, but she may be better than the Maduro regime, and the people voted her in too.

That is a risk, but she’s got to try something. Doing nothing is how the US got where it is now.

Versus a civil war, this would be a much more peaceful approach.

He’s doing things based on his memories. 80s were his happy time. He went in for oil but even the oil companies want little to do with that - we’re past peak oil and it’ll cost a fortune to get the oil fields producing an amount that’s profitable and that will also have a big affect on demand cost (i.e. cost will go down so there’s no point in extraction)

Former oil worker and from a family of oil workers. Been through enough cycles to know what to expect.

Trump is a toddler who doesn’t understand simple business ideas anymore, if he ever did. Machado is playing him because she knows he only listens to praise from the last person he talked to. He’s very simple and old.

Reconstruction was never truly complete and allowed for a full range of “compromises”. The attitude and feelings remained the same.

Quite sad that 175 years later and the arguments have changed very little.

Wonder what he’s going to do with his FIFA Peace Prize now. Omg, what a timeline we’re on. I feel for the historians having to record this. It’s so pathetic.

She can “donate” it but she can’t give it away. The decision by the Nobel award committee is final. She’s playing him and good on her for doing so.

Look at it from her side. She can “give” this narcissistic her award (which she actually can’t) and the guy who holds the strings will be pleased and she gets her country back, peacefully.

That’s a great deal for her and Venezuela overall. She is playing him. It’s tactful and tactical. And he’s a pathetic toddler who only responds to praise and participation awards - what a sad sad sad person to have as leader. I hope MAGA sees how pathetic this is but I know they won’t.

Nothing more un-Christian than US-style Christianity

Likewise. If we can’t treat our enemies with the humanity we would want treated to us then we’re not much better than they are. Also aware that making martyrs is never a wise idea.

He could easily be stripped of all possessions and wealth and thrown in prison or exiled till they die a slow meaningless death. That’s the best way to deal with them.

Corporate trolls, state-sponsored trolls, agents and repost bots are at least 60% of the users and much more in some active subs like askreddit and any news subreddit (especially if critiquing genocide or war-raged areas). It’s just sad and so obvious.