A longish thread on the invasion of #Venezuela.
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Democracy:
Trump doesn’t care about democracy in his own country (he made extreme efforts to destabilise the electoral process in his own country) and certainly not in Venezuela. Additionally, his own supporters are not fans of historic US efforts at nation building. But this move gives his base something to argue about an chew on. Meanwhile the non-Trump republicans really like a good military in the middle of the night show.What they’ve done in Venezuela leaves is a dangerous power vacuum.
Oil:
Trump doesn’t care about oil, but he does care about oil companies who contribute to his growing financial wealth. He absolutely doesn’t care if Venezuela’s oil producing infrastructure is crumbling. He cares only about the graft he can extract when he opens the field to corporations who can make a business of ‘revitalizing’ it.While some of those around him may dream of returning to an imperial US, Trump doesn’t have dreams like that. He dreams of staying in power and gilded ballrooms.
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Oil:
Trump doesn’t care about oil, but he does care about oil companies who contribute to his growing financial wealth. He absolutely doesn’t care if Venezuela’s oil producing infrastructure is crumbling. He cares only about the graft he can extract when he opens the field to corporations who can make a business of ‘revitalizing’ it.While some of those around him may dream of returning to an imperial US, Trump doesn’t have dreams like that. He dreams of staying in power and gilded ballrooms.
Spheres of influence:
There are, without a doubt, those within the Trump administration who do think in the abstract. They don’t give a shit about Venezuela either, but this act signals to China and Russia that a new world order, made up of aggressive spheres of regional influence is perfectly okay with them.But Trump can’t even mentally conceive of something that broad or abstract. For him, this strike is a way to stop the media attention on Epstein and inflation.
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Spheres of influence:
There are, without a doubt, those within the Trump administration who do think in the abstract. They don’t give a shit about Venezuela either, but this act signals to China and Russia that a new world order, made up of aggressive spheres of regional influence is perfectly okay with them.But Trump can’t even mentally conceive of something that broad or abstract. For him, this strike is a way to stop the media attention on Epstein and inflation.
If Trump loses power in the midterms, his graft game is up. While SCOTUS might grant him unlimited criminal power, the one arm of government that can over-ride SCOTUS and curtail his criminality is congress.
What Trump knows is that Americans love a spectacle. They can be for it - the right loves a good show of force - or against it, but it doesn’t actually matter, because it shifts attention away from the concrete realities of inflation, healthcare insurance and his association with Epstein.
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If Trump loses power in the midterms, his graft game is up. While SCOTUS might grant him unlimited criminal power, the one arm of government that can over-ride SCOTUS and curtail his criminality is congress.
What Trump knows is that Americans love a spectacle. They can be for it - the right loves a good show of force - or against it, but it doesn’t actually matter, because it shifts attention away from the concrete realities of inflation, healthcare insurance and his association with Epstein.
Trump cannot think longterm, but those around him do. Giving tacit permission for China to invade Taiwan or Russia to take over Ukraine also paves the way for the US acquisition of the parts of the world they want. And an extreme rise in militarism which requires the suspension of all sorts of everyday rights that are taken for granted in stable democracies.
The US far right needs to be able to point at monstrous aggressive instability to force through their goals of a white, christian US.
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Trump cannot think longterm, but those around him do. Giving tacit permission for China to invade Taiwan or Russia to take over Ukraine also paves the way for the US acquisition of the parts of the world they want. And an extreme rise in militarism which requires the suspension of all sorts of everyday rights that are taken for granted in stable democracies.
The US far right needs to be able to point at monstrous aggressive instability to force through their goals of a white, christian US.
It is hard to keep your eye on two games being played at the same time. But this is what has been happening all along. This is why the hard right white Christian nationalists in the US tolerate (and even embrace) Trump.
Not because he has the ability to agree with them ideologically, but because his flagrant global irresponsibility destabilises settled orders enough to make their goals possible.
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It is hard to keep your eye on two games being played at the same time. But this is what has been happening all along. This is why the hard right white Christian nationalists in the US tolerate (and even embrace) Trump.
Not because he has the ability to agree with them ideologically, but because his flagrant global irresponsibility destabilises settled orders enough to make their goals possible.
Trump is old and he will die soon. But the destruction of both internal and international norms and systems whose destruction he has presided over will last a decade or longer. Enough time for authoritarian governments to entrench themselves, normalise themselves, in the minds of the population.
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Trump is old and he will die soon. But the destruction of both internal and international norms and systems whose destruction he has presided over will last a decade or longer. Enough time for authoritarian governments to entrench themselves, normalise themselves, in the minds of the population.
The media’s inability to look past the cult of personality of Trumpism, to see the mechanics evolving beneath it - the rise of two massive hegemonies - white christian nationalism and a cabal of billionaire oligarchs (who I suspect will eventually clash with each other) means that they are not doing their job at truly informing people about how the world is being changed for regular people.
And that is their job.
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The media’s inability to look past the cult of personality of Trumpism, to see the mechanics evolving beneath it - the rise of two massive hegemonies - white christian nationalism and a cabal of billionaire oligarchs (who I suspect will eventually clash with each other) means that they are not doing their job at truly informing people about how the world is being changed for regular people.
And that is their job.
The one regional zone that all three powers (US, Russia and China) find deeply problematic is Europe.
Having an EU that practices reasonably coherent democracies, has robust human rights laws, legally curtails the misbehaviour of corporations, a free trade zone, rule of law and large middle classes is an anathema. It stands as living working proof that all the laws and norms they insist weaken their own systems, can and do work fine.
The EU needs to take this on board. Its continued existence
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The one regional zone that all three powers (US, Russia and China) find deeply problematic is Europe.
Having an EU that practices reasonably coherent democracies, has robust human rights laws, legally curtails the misbehaviour of corporations, a free trade zone, rule of law and large middle classes is an anathema. It stands as living working proof that all the laws and norms they insist weaken their own systems, can and do work fine.
The EU needs to take this on board. Its continued existence
is problematic for authoritarian regimes who want their populations to settle for less.
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is problematic for authoritarian regimes who want their populations to settle for less.
@Remittancegirl And it's a message we need to make sure is understood by the member countries that are currently flirting with far right ideologies. These will undermine the EU if we cannot find an effective counter narrative that PEOPLE (read: VOTERS) can buy into and start implementing progressive policies that voters can actually experience real benefits from for themselves. We need to learn that people will always be a bit selfish, and that that needs to be catered for to succeed.
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@mikkaels
È nel giardino della casa che era dei miei genitori, quando fu costruita e andai ad abitare nella seconda metà degli anni 80 mi sembra che c'era già, forse l'aveva messa mio nonno o forse mio padre. L'hanno sempre chiamata "lima", ma sicuramente non è una lime, perché ha frutti di grossa pezzatura e buccia molto spessa. Alla fine potrebbe anche essere una rarità, avendo 40-50 anni di età. Il portinnesto è sicuramente un arancio perché l'estate scorsa ho rimosso due succhioni ...
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@mikkaels
No, credo che serva a poco in questo caso per il forte rischio di incorrere in falsi positivi basandosi esclusivamente sulle foto. Gli agrumi sono particolarmente soggetti a ibridazioni e sulla stessa pianta ho notato una discreta eterogeneità. Aggiungi poi il ruolo che può avere il portinnesto. Insomma, alla fine potrebbe trattarsi di un ecotipo locale di chissà quale ibrido. Non conosco neppure l'origine di questa pianta, peraltro alquanto vecchia (ma generosa).
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Tutti i dubbi sulla riforma della Corte dei conti. L'analisi di @Vitalba
Il governo promette meno controlli e più velocità, ma le nuove regole sollevano molte perplessità
https://pagellapolitica.it/articoli/dubbi-riforma-corte-conti
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@gruber her filming of the ice agent, described as being run over and injured, calmly walking away is a simple image that gives lie to the administration narrative.
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@latsss your assumptions were wrong, my point is that the force of people if well organized and focused, can be stronger than the force of weapons and wars. This is proven by history and social sciences. These are the ideas and ideals of people opposing Putin, Trump and ALL imperialist wars. You are not obliged to share these ideas, but you should at least respect ukrainian pacifists that were prosecuted by ukranian police for their beliefs AND targeted by russian army for their nationality.
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@latsss so russian babies, decent people and families of dead soldiers are "evil enemies" that must be defeated and destroyed, but corrupt ukrainians profiting from war are "good friends" helping in the battle for liberty and justice. You are free to think like this and label people with their passport, but plee respect people thinking that the best way to freedom is to unite decent people against killers and criminals, just like MLK did in the US uniting decent black AND white people.
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Didn’t she just look like every domestic terrorist you’ve ever seen?
