President Donald Trump said Saturday that the US intends to control Venezuela until a “proper transition can take place,” indicating that the bombing of the South American country and abduction of its president were just the start of the Trump administration’s illegal intervention there.

The president added that US forces are prepared to launch “a much larger attack” on Venezuela if he deems it necessary, threatening other political figures in the country.

“What happened to Maduro can happen to them,” he said.

Trump also declared that American fossil fuel companies will “go in and spend billions of dollars” in Venezuela, which has the largest known oil reserves in the world.

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    I’m so fucking disgusted I’m in a rage right now. This piece of shit can’t die soon enough…

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    The greek media which are controlled by greek and american presented this: “The American troops have arrested president Maduro”. Like they are talking about a random US citizen. I want to throw up just thinking about it.

    Edit: On national television they called Maduro ex Venezuela president.

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    Hey, at least these complete fucking imbeciles aren’t even hiding their illegal acts with bullshit excuses. I just wish there were a force greater to take diwn this stupid ass pedophile regime.

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      Really? Because after seeing the last decade of American politics that is exactly what I expected of them.

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        I mean yeah but I thought they would see how that isn’t going to work in the modern day. Then again they don’t need it to work very long term

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    “What happened to Maduro can happen to them,” he said.

    I hope that he and all the other politicians in the USA understand that this now gives the “okay” for the same to happen to them too. The USA loves to start shit everywhere else and we are groomed into thinking everything only happens in other nations across the world. 9-11 and even Pearl Harbor have shown that such false feelings of “no one would possibly attack USA homeland” are hubris. NATO is a thing, but if a NATO nation is the aggressor, the that Article 5 shit doesn’t apply (to my limited understanding). And the other NATO states really need to stop placing themselves in the same agreements that lead to the first World War.