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noumenon@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

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

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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

www.semafor.com

noumenon@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
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The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.
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    To be fair, they needed to get their polymarket bets down first.

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      I hate this timeline. Daily fantasy already ruined sports now its coming for everything else.

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    They knew before Congress.

    • Goku@lemmy.world
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      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…

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    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
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      Choice 1 be dirt poor or join the military

      Choice 2 obey orders or get thrown in military jail

      • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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        Welcome to the choice everyone makes. Not everyone decides murder of random civilians has a price.

      • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world
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        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
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          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
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            Kings are useless without pawns doing their bidding

            • GorGor@startrek.website
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              So don’t attack the pawns, recruit them.

  • -RJ-@lemmy.world
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    How about innocents in Venezuela? Do we have a count for how many of then died?

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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      I heard 40 dead in Venezuela.

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    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
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      Think about the us citizens currently in Venezuela…

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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        Thought about them. What now?

        • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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          According to the republican doctrine, you pray.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Why just US citizens? Other lives don’t count?

        • HarneyToker@lemmy.world
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          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.

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    Another Nazi headline. Proper 1:

    NYT & WaPo protected Nazis invading Venezuela so that they could abduct a President in broad daylight without intervention.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    Basically been State Department mouthpieces for some time now.

  • Ancalagon@lemmy.world
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    Well yeah, easily jail them if they did release it.

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    Kegsbreath and Signal, what a pair

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    Utterly disgusting.

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