War (crimes) and Peace (prizes) - Trump Thread #151

[Spandauer]

Don Snoreleone trying to stay awake long enough to bring all his racist dreams to fruition. So when can we bring about his personal "civilisational erasure”?

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5436537-cobwebs-in-congress-bigly-ballrooms-tariff-tantrums-dementia-denials-trump-thread-150

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Placemat so I remember to use the same name thanks for the new thread

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Late night check-in 🛫

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New York place marking squirrel

What an excellent title.
Like the book, Trump goes on for far too long, too many people come and go, and no one really follows what's going on

Placemarking, thanks @Spandauer

I've lost track a little with all the Christmas prep, please could somebody as concisely and simply as possible (I expect it's very complex!) humour me and explain what's going on with Venezuela?

Thanks for the new thread, @Spandauer.
@RafaistheKingofClay, in response to your latest post on the thread before this one, where you said: "correct me if I’m wrong, but the US and Venezuela aren’t officially at war are they?”, I thought we’d established that The Orange Menace could declare war by posting on Truth Social, as that’s the new way and the best way, these days?
@TokyoSushi - I’m sorry, I can’t help you there, my only answer would be that the man is off his rocker, and by the by, I don’t want to visit the USA whilst he’s in charge, so I’m not worrying about my past 5 years of social media postings.

Time for a check in on where we are:

Day 325 of Trump 2.0
328 days till Midterms (03/11/2026)
1,063 days till the 2028 election (07/11/2028)
1,137 days till Inauguration Day (20/01/2029)

When the days until the 2028 election drop below 1,000 it will feel ever so slightly closer!

These may help explain.
But mostly it's about $$$ whenever 🍊💩 is involved.

Why is Trump so obsessed with Venezuela? His new security strategy provides some clues.
https://theconversation.com/why-is-trump-so-obsessed-with-venezuela-his-new-security-strategy-provides-some-clues-271530

Trump lacks support or logistics for Venezuela ground invasion.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/trump-military-invasion-venezuela-00683836

The fact is he was hugely influential in de-escalating the Middle east war - no one else did that
He is the only one who has got Russia and Ukraine talking - all Bien did was tell Russia they are very naughty and should be much nicer

He has never ever saidf he will invade
Venezuela
The US stopped a ship sending oil to Russia - is that a bid thing in your view ?

In the same breath as bombing small boats from Venezuala potentially carrying drugs, Trump has just pardoned a major drug trafficker (the former president of Honduras) who was convicted last year for importing 500 tons of cocaine into the US.

Good article here:

Why Did Trump Pardon the Former Honduran President? Follow the Tech Bros.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/why-did-trump-pardon-the-former-honduran-president-follow-the-tech-bros/

The TL;DR is that the tech broligarchs Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen own a city in Honduras, Próspera, as part of their vision to build a trans-national state with most of its functions happening on the internet (living the "geography is history" life).

They call them "freedom cities", and the intention is not just to free the broligarchs from following nations' laws themselves, but to build structures that they hope will supercede the laws of all nations.

"A network state would, like a kind of Pac-Man, gobble up little pieces of actual land, eventually amassing so much economic power that other nations would be forced to recognize it. Once that happens, laws in more conventional nations could become almost irrelevant. Why on earth would, say, a pharmaceutical company with a new drug choose to spend billions of dollars and decades on mandated testing when it could go to a deregulated network state and take it to market in record time?"
[ref: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/tech-crypto-native-american-musk-balaji-network-state/ ]

Argh, one of those links mentions the c word. Sorry, hope that post will come up shortly.

But it's about why Trump has just pardoned someone convicted of importing 500 tons of cocaine into the US.

(Answer: because it helps his supporters among the tech broligarchy.)