US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.

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    He’s not 100% wrong.

    I’m sure he remembers fondly how every single news network praised him profusely when he dropped the MOAB on Afghanistan.

    He knows very well how much the US loves a warmongering president.

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        No, this was in his first term.

        Here’s an article on it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39598046

        But yeah, every single news outlet sang his praises after this. I specifically remember being on the treadmill in the gym, watching CNN, and I’ll quote Fareed Zakaria: “In that moment, he became president of the United States.”

        This country loves war to the point of absolute absurdity.

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      I’m starting to get the impression that a large fraction of Americans have lustful thoughts at the idea of mass murdering civilians (including children) as well as at the idea of their “leaders” having sex with children.

      Theirs is a diseased relationship with power.

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        We are a nation that really has never given a crap about bombing civilians en masse. Hell, President Obama, whom many still revere, dropped 20,000 bombs just in the last year of his presidency and killed an American citizen in Iraq ordering a bombing as well.

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          At one point President Obama had the definition of “enemy combatant” be changed to “Any man between the ages of 16 and 60” because the numbers of “collateral” civilian casualties from the drone attacks he ordered were so bad.