• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Yeah. If Donald Trump wants to “run things” he needs 20k marines in the country, like, right now. I haven’t seen any indications of that so far.

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      13 days ago

      Or they just need a friendly government. From what I hear, the opposition is pretty pro-US, so that may be easy.

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        12 days ago

        They still need the marines (or some other sizable force) if they want that friendly oppo government to take control.

        • Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zip
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          12 days ago

          Or they could have already paid out the current gov to hand over maduro, and let them get the oil back to private companies, in exchange for massive wealth produced by said companies