Warner Bros - Netflix vs Trump and Larry Ellison

[Andrew Reid]

5 hours ago, Geoff_L said:

A Parrot would now be a more appropriate bird, since they are resorting to piracy...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/10/venezuela-oil-tanker-seizure/?itid=hp-mv-top-stories_top-table-main_p001_f001

Laying the ground for a full on war with South America, to seize their oil and natural resources.

He can then have a war in full flow by time the elections come round again.

 

[eatstoomuchjam]

43 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

Laying the ground for a full on war with South America, to seize their oil and natural resources.

Well, with Venezuela.  As of now, there's minimal/no saber rattling with any of the other 11 other countries.

[Andrew Reid]

Well Venezuela is a dictatorship, so in a sense they're right to go after them for national security and drug cartel reasons.

On the other hand, we'd be naive to think this is just about that coveted peace prize... And I'm not talking FIFA Peace Price

The thing with Trump is it's weird how well he gets on with all the other dictatorships, isn't it?

Perhaps it's because Venezuela's government claims to be socialist ("Chavismo")

He only gets on with the right-wing dictatorships not the socialist dictatorships

[Geoff_L]

4 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

Well, with Venezuela.  As of now, there's minimal/no saber rattling with any of the other 11 other countries.

We can assume they are pretty safe yes, unless they contain a canal of major interest for international maritime trade, or mineral ressources/oil, or are not already ruled by an extrem right-wing felon-buddy😅

[Andrew Reid]

19 minutes ago, Geoff_L said:

not already ruled by an extrem right-wing felon-buddy😅

Are you talking about the US or Venezuela? 🙂

[eatstoomuchjam]

1 hour ago, Geoff_L said:

contain a canal of major interest for international maritime trade

The canal is not in South America.  It's in Central America which is considered to be part of the North American continent.

There's basically no part of South America where a canal would make any sense.

1 hour ago, Geoff_L said:

mineral ressources/oil

As far as oil, I wouldn't be surprised if we decided to take a real interest in Guyana, given the recent coastal oil discoveries there.  Brazil's oil is already more or less in the hands of multinational companies.  For minerals, I'm sort of surprised that we haven't taken a more active interest in Bolivia's lithium reserves, but I suppose that Chile and Argentina have both commercialized their adjacent ones enough to sate our appetites for the time being.