NYT and WaPo learned of the Venezuela raid soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops (www.semafor.com)
from noumenon@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 02:54
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SinningStromgald@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 03:16 next collapse

Utterly disgusting.

Ancalagon@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 03:39 next collapse

Well yeah, easily jail them if they did release it.

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 03:42 next collapse

Basically been State Department mouthpieces for some time now.

Triumph@fedia.io on 04 Jan 03:48 next collapse

They knew before Congress.

youngGoku@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 14:13 collapse

That’s insane to me. The U.S. President can now act unilaterally to engage in war with foreign countries without approval, or even knowledge from congress…

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 04 Jan 03:48 next collapse

I wish everyone involved in that "raid" a slow and painful death. "Endangering US troops" my ass those assholes deserve to be endangered.

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 04:07 collapse

Think about the us citizens currently in Venezuela…

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 04 Jan 04:09 next collapse

Thought about them. What now?

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 05:03 collapse

According to the republican doctrine, you pray.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 04 Jan 14:08 collapse

Why just US citizens? Other lives don’t count?

HarneyToker@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 20:04 collapse

The above commenter means “How could a US president do something so drastic and illegal when there are US citizens currently in Venezuela?” The context justifies singling out Americans.

barnaclebutt@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 05:30 next collapse

To be fair, they needed to get their polymarket bets down first.

hardcoreufo@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 06:46 collapse

I hate this timeline. Daily fantasy already ruined sports now its coming for everything else.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 04 Jan 06:04 next collapse

Another Nazi headline. Proper 1:

NYT & WaPo protected Nazis invading Venezuela so that they could abduct a President in broad daylight without intervention.

xenomor@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 06:21 next collapse

Let me take this opportunity to yet again say FUCK THE TROOPS. I have no sympathy for any of our service people. You have agency. You don’t actually have to do the awful shit that you are doing.

The corporate media is entirely captured by our entrenched oligarchy and we need to treat them accordingly.

GorGor@startrek.website on 04 Jan 17:30 collapse

Choice 1 be dirt poor or join the military Choice 2 obey orders or get thrown in military jail

HasturInYellow@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 18:32 next collapse

Welcome to the choice everyone makes. Not everyone decides murder of random civilians has a price.

cheesybuddha@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 19:46 collapse

So you think they should do murder to keep themselves out of jail?

Would you murder someone because you were threatened with jail if you didn’t?

GorGor@startrek.website on 06 Jan 00:13 collapse

There are plenty of troops that just repair cars. Maybe those cars get used for murder, maybe they don’t. It’s a complex moral problem that is different for everyone at different levels.

By saying fuck the troops, you are falling into the trap the owners want. You are focusing on pawns rather than the kings they want to be.

cheesybuddha@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 01:53 collapse

Kings are useless without pawns doing their bidding

GorGor@startrek.website on 06 Jan 04:19 collapse

So don’t attack the pawns, recruit them.

aarRJaay@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 08:06 next collapse

How about innocents in Venezuela? Do we have a count for how many of then died?

HasturInYellow@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 18:31 collapse

I heard 40 dead in Venezuela.

SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world on 04 Jan 14:17 collapse

Kegsbreath and Signal, what a pair