"Trump’s self-image as the ultimate dealmaker explains why he was so ready to believe, falsely, that he controlled Venezuela. It also explains his insistence that by, as he imagined, seizing Venezuela, he had gained a valuable prize in the form of its oil. ...
It’s important to understand that the confrontation with Venezuela has nothing to do with the national interest."
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #RealityTV
/16
"It’s all about Trump’s self-aggrandizing delusions. And it will accomplish nothing except to make America look even less trustworthy and weaker than it did before."
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #RealityTV
/17
"The thing about MAGA, though, is that the policies and rights and wrongs — intervening abroad or not, pardoning violent criminals or not, sexually abusing children or not — don’t actually matter. Ideology does not matter. Morals do not matter.
What matters: Domination. Subjugation. Abusing the less powerful simply because it feels good."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #abuse
/18
throughline.news/p/the-plundering-imperial-presidency
"The U.S. president just went to war with another country and now will apparently occupy it for essentially no reason, with no warning and with public opinion overwhelming against all of it. Someone quipped on BlueSky last night that Trump hadn’t even taken the proper constitutional steps to lie the country into this war."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #Congress
/19
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/first-thoughts-on-trumps-excellent-venezuela-adventure
