Tag: venezuela
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TAPA # 146 THEY SHOOT MOMS – DONT’T THEY!!!
In TAPA #145 Baloney Not Oil, I laid out why the only people who will ever see a financial return from the Venezuelan incursion, an operation that cost American taxpayers an estimated $500 million, are the oil barons. Because of the massive tax breaks Trump handed the industry, any profits will never reach the “regular” American who works…
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TAPA # 145 BALONEY NOT OIL
As I have said before, the use of force may at times be necessary. Nicolás Maduro is a bad actor; no argument there. Venezuela is a nation under severe political and economic stress; again, no dispute. Its democracy is effectively defunct after the sitting president suppressed free and fair elections. Maduro’s regime is responsible for…
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TAPA # 143 WAGGING THE DOG
I often refer to the “shiny thing”, the object Trump dangles to distract from who he really is and what he is actually doing. It’s a familiar tactic: divert attention from the predator, the draft dodger, the serially failed businessman whose father gave him so much money that he became too rich to fail. We all…
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TAPA # 141 ADVICE FOR MADURO
I am not opposed to the use of force when it is genuinely necessary to protect people. But Trump’s press conference on the Venezuelan action was a tour de money. If you listened carefully, references to wealth and resources “out of the ground” were central to his rationale. Nearly everything was framed in transactional terms; what…
THE AMERICAN POSEIDON ADVENTURE 