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Ocelot II

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2. Drugs in little boats is a pretext, just like WMDs were a pretext for the invasion of Iraq.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 11:42 PM

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The real goal, much like Iraq, is regime change for the purpose of removing Maduro, who is a nasty piece of work (the new Saddam Hussein), in order to install a right-wing head of government who will sell Venezuela's oil reserves to US companies (and Trump somehow gets a cut).

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