"It is virtually certain that this Venezuela operation will turn into a big mess with a heaping side order of corruption. But it is also pretty clear it is one of those giant errors that can lead to further screw ups and even disasters."
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"While these guys may be the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, the bumbling, preening idiots from the back of a high school detention room, they are now in charge of the most powerful military on earth and they intend to use it as only idiots would—without a real plan, without having thought through the consequences of their actions, driven only by impulse, character flaws and greed."
~ David Rothkopf
#Trump #Venezuela #Hegseth #Rubio #oil #EconomicElites
/18
https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/the-fafo-boys-are-about-to-find-out
"It is virtually certain that this Venezuela operation will turn into a big mess with a heaping side order of corruption. But it is also pretty clear it is one of those giant errors that can lead to further screw ups and even disasters."
"This is all another very Trumpian shitshow, as unhinged as his diseased mind is, and a reminder that desperate men do desperate things."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Venezuela #Hegseth #Rubio #oil #EconomicElites
/20
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/is-trump-in-charge-of-venezuela-the
"Trump’s cabinet is hiding from Congress, which says as much about the administration as it does Congress. For example, would Republican lawmakers not like to hear what OMB Director Russ Vought has to say, given that he has stolen their constitutionally granted power of the purse? I know I would."
~ Catherine Rampell
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-says-we-have-the-hottest-economy-markets-tell-different-story
"We also must remember that with the flood of Epstein releases just before the holidays Trump’s job approval began falling again, and it was clear he needed to do something dramatic to change the national narrative."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Venezuela #Epstein #DOJ #Congress
/22
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-starts-underwater-in-initial
