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raccoon

(32,160 posts)
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 10:00 AM 17 hrs ago

What would happen if some other country was blowing up

American fishing boats without any investigation whatsoever?

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What would happen if some other country was blowing up (Original Post) raccoon 17 hrs ago OP
we would declare war lapfog_1 17 hrs ago #1
not to mention the 'magic powers' to ignore the US Constitution being in a declared war would give the Trump Mob Attilatheblond 17 hrs ago #4
Well, see... 2naSalit 17 hrs ago #2
Shitler wants Jilly_in_VA 17 hrs ago #3

lapfog_1

(31,519 posts)
1. we would declare war
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 10:06 AM
17 hrs ago

and invade their country and arrest their leaders ( or execute them ).

and... that is what Trump and his criminal gang expect Maduro to do... declare war... only so WE can invade, execute their leaders, install our own, and steal their oil and their mineral resources.

Attilatheblond

(7,985 posts)
4. not to mention the 'magic powers' to ignore the US Constitution being in a declared war would give the Trump Mob
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 10:13 AM
17 hrs ago

2naSalit

(99,338 posts)
2. Well, see...
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 10:07 AM
17 hrs ago

It's that 'merikin exceptionalism that makes us so special that we don't need to accept anyone else's claims. Of course we'd have to start a war to... to... um...

Jilly_in_VA

(13,647 posts)
3. Shitler wants
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 10:09 AM
17 hrs ago

his "splendid little war" that he thinks he can with in 3 weeks. What he's more likely to get is Vietnam. Venezuela is a country more suited to gurrilla warfare, and this kind of thing could drag on for a long time.

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