“Your vice president, JD Vance, said that the message is pretty clear: that drug trafficking must stop. So was this operation a message that you’re sending to Mexico, to Claudia Sheinbaum, the president there?” Fox’s Griff Jenkins asked. “Well, it wasn’t meant to be, we’re very friendly with her, she’s a good woman,” Trump began. […]
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Trump Sidelines Venezuelan Opposition Leader for the Pettiest Reason
“Your vice president, JD Vance, said that the message is pretty clear: that drug trafficking must stop. So was this operation a message that you’re sending to Mexico, to Claudia Sheinbaum, the president there?” Fox’s Griff Jenkins asked. “Well, it wasn’t meant to be, we’re very friendly with her, she’s a good woman,” Trump began. […]
Read MoreTrump Snubs Top Venezuelan Opposition Leader for the Pettiest Reason
“Your vice president, JD Vance, said that the message is pretty clear: that drug trafficking must stop. So was this operation a message that you’re sending to Mexico, to Claudia Sheinbaum, the president there?” Fox’s Griff Jenkins asked. “Well, it wasn’t meant to be, we’re very friendly with her, she’s a good woman,” Trump began. […]
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Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
First, Smith says the committee is in communication with Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander who oversaw the bombing, about getting a possible classified briefing. Bradley appears to have been instrumental: As The Washington Post reports, on September 2, after the bombing of a boat carrying 11 people wrecked the vessel, live drone footage showed two […]
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Immigration Crackdown, Looming War: Desperate Acts of a Desperate Man
But that’s just the economics. There’s also morality to think about it, and the moral question is, is it up to the United States of America to decide who should be running another country? Maybe, in certain highly specific situations, like an immediate and severe humanitarian crisis—the slaughter of an ethnic minority, say—the United States, […]
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Um … Is Donald Trump Seriously Going to Start a War with Venezuela?
I would never defend the Iraq War, but at least Congress, the broader American public, and the international community openly debated that policy before the U.S. invaded Iraq. Not here. This bellicose posture toward Venezuela is entirely driven by the administration with little consultation with anyone else. It’s true that presidents in both parties in […]
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America First? Trump Authorizes “Covert” CIA Action in Venezuela
So, how many members of the Venezuelan gang did they catch in the controversial September raid? DHS says that, of the 37 individuals arrested that night, agents got ahold of “just one ‘verified’ Tren de Aragua member,” MSNBC reported this week. It was previously reported that two of the 37 arrested were members of TdA, […]
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Why Trump Will Never Win a Nobel Peace Prize
Much of Trump’s diplomatic work suggests that he is both incompetent and a loser, however. He is fond of claiming that he has stopped seven wars and ended conflicts that had been ongoing for “decades”—like one between Azerbaijan and Armenia (which he almost always confuses with Albania). For the most part, though, Trump’s work has […]
Read More Why Trump Will Never Win a Nobel Peace Prize
Much of Trump’s diplomatic work suggests that he is both incompetent and a loser, however. He is fond of claiming that he has stopped seven wars and ended conflicts that had been ongoing for “decades”—like one between Azerbaijan and Armenia (which he almost always confuses with Albania). For the most part, though, Trump’s work has […]
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Fox News Played Unsettling Role in Trump’s Decision to Bomb Iran
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene somehow continues to be one of the most coherent and consistent right-wing voices against the U.S. war on Iran. The MAGA hard-liner lambasted President Trump and his foreign policy on Monday, accusing him of betraying his true supporters in a “complete bait and switch” by expanding U.S. military intervention in the […]
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Here’s Where Trump Got the Brilliant Idea to Bomb Iran
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene somehow continues to be one of the most coherent and consistent right-wing voices against the U.S. war on Iran. The MAGA hard-liner lambasted President Trump and his foreign policy on Monday, accusing him of betraying his true supporters in a “complete bait and switch” by expanding U.S. military intervention in the […]
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JD Vance Gives Mind-blowing Excuse for Why Trump Bombed Iran
Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his claim that Tulsi Gabbard is wrong about Iran’s supposed nuclear capabilities. After disembarking Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey, the president played dumb when confronted with a major discrepancy between his claims about Iran and what U.S. intelligence had to say. “So you have that Iran is […]
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JD Vance Gives Stunningly Bad Defense of Why Trump Bombed Iran
Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his claim that Tulsi Gabbard is wrong about Iran’s supposed nuclear capabilities. After disembarking Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey, the president played dumb when confronted with a major discrepancy between his claims about Iran and what U.S. intelligence had to say. “So you have that Iran is […]
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Trump Brazenly Brags About Real Reason He Bombed Iran
Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his claim that Tulsi Gabbard is wrong about Iran’s supposed nuclear capabilities. After disembarking Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey, the president played dumb when confronted with a major discrepancy between his claims about Iran and what U.S. intelligence had to say. “So you have that Iran is […]
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