NYT and WaPo learned of the Venezuela raid soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/03/2026/new-york-times-washington-post-held-off-on-reporting-venezuela-raid
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Triumph@fedia.io · 71 pts · 240d
They knew before Congress.
youngGoku@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 239d
That's insane to me. The U.S. President can now act unilaterally to engage in war with foreign countries without approval, or even knowledge from congress...
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 240d
To be fair, they needed to get their polymarket bets down first.
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 240d
I hate this timeline. Daily fantasy already ruined sports now its coming for everything else.
xenomor@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 240d
Let me take this opportunity to yet again say FUCK THE TROOPS. I have no sympathy for any of our service people. You have agency. You don’t actually have to do the awful shit that you are doing.
The corporate media is entirely captured by our entrenched oligarchy and we need to treat them accordingly.
GorGor@startrek.website · 4 pts · 239d
Choice 1 be dirt poor or join the military
Choice 2 obey orders or get thrown in military jail
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 239d
Welcome to the choice everyone makes. Not everyone decides murder of random civilians has a price.
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 239d
So you think they should do murder to keep themselves out of jail?
Would you murder someone because you were threatened with jail if you didn't?
GorGor@startrek.website · 1 pts · 238d
There are plenty of troops that just repair cars. Maybe those cars get used for murder, maybe they don't. It's a complex moral problem that is different for everyone at different levels.
By saying fuck the troops, you are falling into the trap the owners want. You are focusing on pawns rather than the kings they want to be.
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 238d
Kings are useless without pawns doing their bidding
GorGor@startrek.website · 1 pts · 238d
So don't attack the pawns, recruit them.
aarRJaay@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 239d
How about innocents in Venezuela? Do we have a count for how many of then died?
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 239d
I heard 40 dead in Venezuela.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 16 pts · 240d
I wish everyone involved in that "raid" a slow and painful death. "Endangering US troops" my ass those assholes deserve to be endangered.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 240d
Think about the us citizens currently in Venezuela...
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 11 pts · 240d
Thought about them. What now?
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 240d
According to the republican doctrine, you pray.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 239d
Why just US citizens? Other lives don't count?
HarneyToker@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 239d
The above commenter means “How could a US president do something so drastic and illegal when there are US citizens currently in Venezuela?” The context justifies singling out Americans.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 16 pts · 240d
Another Nazi headline. Proper 1:
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 240d
Basically been State Department mouthpieces for some time now.
Ancalagon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 240d
Well yeah, easily jail them if they did release it.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 239d
Kegsbreath and Signal, what a pair
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 240d
Utterly disgusting.