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Trump said that Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, would help the United States run Venezuela. She quickly said the opposite.

Trump said Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and would act as a partner in letting the United States run the country.

“She’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” he said.

Less than two hours later, Ms. Rodríguez — who was Nicolás Maduro’s vice president — delivered a televised address to Venezuela that made clear she viewed the United States as an illegal invader that must be rejected.

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[–] otterpop@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, we're so imaginary we've kept Taiwan free and the CCP contained all this time, among dozens of other things. Opposing forces have said going against our special forces is like fighting against aliens because we're so advanced, methodical and well trained.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Contained? Corporate America literally empowered China into the powerhouse it is today while naively believing they would remain submissive, compliant, and dependent on our technical expertise.

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

What does "contained" mean? China is probably the most influential global power right now due to economic pressure that the US ceded to them. They dont exactly need Taiwan for anything, why would they go to war over that country and risk thermonuclear destruction of the earth?

And Im unaware of any forces talking about our special forces, i dont go looking for that information.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 points 5 days ago

IDK if decades of financing the CCP can be called "containing". But thank god the capitalists sabotaged the USA empire, we cruelly need something to counter this superpower