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[–] 138 points 7 months ago (8 children)

How the hell can they just waltz into a country and just kidnap their leader without committing diplomatic suicide with the rest of the world?

The next US president should finally join the ICC and give retroactive authority to prosecute anyone associated with the current US regime. Neatly sidesteps any pardon shenanigans they're going to attempt, given a US presidential pardon has no legal standing outside its borders.

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  • [–] 68 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Diplomatic suicide with the world happened many months ago, were you sleeping? Threatening Canada, Greenland, who else?

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    The thing is those are all threats people involved in diplomacy can rationalise away as public image stuff and not take seriously. Like don't get me wrong, it's going to have them on alert, but it's not a bridge burning yet.

    This is a physical act with no other interpretation. The US invaded a country and kidnapped its leader. This is a burnt bridge.

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    The next US president should finally join the ICC and give retroactive authority to prosecute anyone associated with the current US regime.

    Not gonna happen. Trump is especially blatant, but imperialism is bipartisan.

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    [–] 128 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Terrorist state. Next time anyone tells you they can't act against a head of state you can tell them to fuck off.

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yep. And he’s not going to be released. Guarantee ther will be an “accident”. He’ll fall out of an open window- in a basement.

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  • [–] 117 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, posted his potential concerns, reflecting a view from the right flank in the Congress. “I look forward to learning what, if anything, might constitutionally justify this action in the absence of a declaration of war or authorization for the use of military force,” Lee said on X.

    YEA ME TOO! For fucking Christ’s sake. Wouldn’t that have been nice to have for the past 20 fucking years too. Maybe then we could avoid invading poorer countries to prop up “defense” stocks. There no money for schools, healthcare, housing, medicine, or food for children, but there’s a trillion fucking dollars for the military… to INVADE VENEZUELA???

    Everything Trump touches, misery follows. And now, death follows him too.

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  • [–] 65 points 7 months ago

    Mike Lee is one of the fuckers responsible for this. He has let Trump do crime and bypass congress since Trump's first term and suddenly, this is what makes him ask questions? He's just trying to cover his own ass.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Psst, "nothing ever happens" people... This is where nothing cannot happen. I already can't believe all the times he got away with ignoring the constitution, but no matter what your political alignment is, this cannot stand. He fucking can't just bomb a country and kidnap its head of state, so that "the biggest oil companies in the world can make money" -- that's an (almost) direct quote from Trump.

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    [–] 64 points 7 months ago (49 children)

    So on what stage of deflection are the "Trump and Biden/Harris are exactly the same" locals at this point? Anybody keeping track?

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    [–] 48 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Well that escalated quickly

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    gotta keep the deflect up from the epstein files

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago*

    Kidnapped, not captured.

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    laddies and gents we’re going back to afghanistan

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    [–] 26 points 7 months ago

    I think we all had 'Unjustified War with Venezuela' on our bingo cards.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    The US has liberated Venezuela. Israel is liberating Gaza. Russia is liberating Ukraine.

    Imperialism speaks a singular, reality warping, language. Subjects of "democratic" nations have always thought that their state stood for something. The reality is the US has been staging coups to create faux-democratic vassal states since before any of us were born. They even staged a coup in Ukraine before Putin invaded. Can empire and a true vibrant democracy ever be compatible?

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago

    Oh my god he actually did the thing. What the hell! Holy shit I did not keep up with the news

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Locked the Nobel Peace Prize prize for this year in after outclassing the current winner's work.

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    [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Oh. My. God. It is starting.

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