President Donald Trump just made it clear that he already has his eyes set on a new target following the US’s capture of the president of Venezuela. During a press conference on Saturday, he urged Colombian President Gustavo Petro to ‘watch his ass.’ The threat marks a dramatic escalation in tensions across Latin America, with Trump openly invoking the Monroe Doctrine to assert US dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

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    12 days ago

    I will compliment the article’s author for using direct quotes from Trump.

    Too often, the press tend to clean up his grammar so it makes sense and doesn’t seem so offensive to the literate.

    Direct quotes like “watch his ass” and “got bum-rushed right so fast that he didn’t get into that” help convey not only Trump’s sentiment, but how god-awful ignorant the fuckwit is.

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      I live in Europe, so I often read coverage in my own language, which means Trump’s quotes are translated. Translators could easily smooth out the grammar and make him sound coherent, but they don’t. They clearly put effort into preserving not just the meaning, but also the tone and sheer incoherence. You end up with these translations that capture the rambling, the aggression, and the stupidity, just in another language.

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    12 days ago

    America in all its movies: We saved the world and showed everyone that we are true heroes of freedom and democracy. USA USA USA!

    America in the real world: Starts a war over oil they have no right to, kidnaps country leaders and threatens other countries in order to get what they want, and will coup enemies and allies alike just to benefit themselves.

    This is just the status quo for you lunatics.

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    There’s guiding foreign politics with an invisible hand behind closed doors and there is this… openly threatening and attacking anything that moves.

    The US will have a fantastic time occupying numerous hostile countries at once, dealing with nonstop 24/7 guerilla attacks. US empire collapse speedrun.

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      12 days ago

      If only it could commit suicide instead of killing even more innocents before its eventual demise sometime in the future…

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    12 days ago

    I literally said this as soon as I heard about Venezuela. He’s gonna go after Columbia, and then he’s going for the Panama Canal. If anyone is surprised by this, they haven’t been paying attention.

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    10 days ago

    Maduro and Trump are friends

    Maduro gets to escape his country and save face instead of being assassinated or executed.

    Trump gets to manufacture a conflict so he can start martial law and become a dictator, and to distract from us learning he came inside little girls.

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      10 days ago

      You’re pasting your little lies with this copypasta under every post. Stop trying to manufacture hatred against Maduro and minimize what happened by linking him with Trump