• marcos@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Apparently, changing from the current head to the second in command counts as “regime change” for the US administration. They told so several times on the Venezuela one.

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      There was a pretty huge shift in policy about the things that Trump actually cares about. (So not freedom and democracy)

      I’m amazed that the Venezuelan government has managed a transition from anti-Americanism as their main ideology to being an American puppet this smoothly and quickly.

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        2 days ago

        You mean like they started trading with the USA after the USA lightened the sanctions that made sure they couldn’t trade with the USA?

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          I mean they’re literally taking orders from Washington, including giving tribute in the form of free oil.

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      2 days ago

      A change to a nonexistent power vacuum that blows up is still a change, right?