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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jan 3, 2026, 03:07 PM Saturday

Venezuela - Illegal, Destabilizing, And A Desperate Way To Make An Ailing, Unpopular Leader "STRONG" Again

Simon Rosenberg
Jan 03, 2026

Morning all. So we’ve taken Maduro, the illegitimate, Putin-allied Venezuelan leader. News is breaking fast so sending along some initial notes from me and around the Internet.

Why now? As we discussed yesterday, January is shaping up to be a very consequential month in Washington and around the country, and Trump needed to do something dramatic to keep wavering Republicans, increasingly weary of defending the indefensible, on his side. Was it the right move? I am doubtful. It feels far more desperate than strategic right now, a wild Hail Mary for an ailing, failing, and unpopular leader needing to find his STRENGTH, POWER, and MANHOOD again. But we will see.

Invading Venezuela is wildly unpopular.

19% support, 60% oppose.

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/venezuela-illegal-destabilizing-a

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Venezuela - Illegal, Destabilizing, And A Desperate Way To Make An Ailing, Unpopular Leader "STRONG" Again (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday OP
Scumbag is shoveling his crap out by the barrel full. He's desperately trying to deflect, as I predicted in one of my SWBTATTReg Saturday #1
"so President Trump, outline all the diplomatic steps you Jarqui Saturday #2

SWBTATTReg

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1. Scumbag is shoveling his crap out by the barrel full. He's desperately trying to deflect, as I predicted in one of my
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 03:32 PM
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prior posts that he would try some invasion of a country or two, to deflect attention from his disastrous policies. Of course, it's failing and if anything, it's concentrating all of the doubters, the non-believers that tRUMP isn't failing, that in fact, he's failing, he couldn't get them to sit down, talk, etc. to avoid hostilities etc. and instead, put the integrity of the US on trial again, due to it's long term policies of invading people just because a republican regime is failing once again in this Country.

Jarqui

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2. "so President Trump, outline all the diplomatic steps you
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 04:18 PM
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exhausted before exercising the last resort: war "

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