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I don't care about Maduro, as far as I'm concerned, they can shoot him if they want. What matters to me is walking through the streets of my city and seeing the faces of fear on my neighbors. The military patrolling to prevent looting due to panic. It's a collective hangover, a horrible one.

It's 2016 all over again. It's seeing despair entering the circulatory system of all Venezuelans, only now it's more sudden, and we are painfully aware of it.

This is far from improving, and we know it.

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[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Does Greenland have large oil reserves? Venezuela is about installing an American friendly/puppet regime, so that American oil companies can take control of the oil.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's one of the most mineral rich areas of the world, massive amounts of rare earth minerals, gold, silver, gemstones, all sorts of stuff.

It's just stuck under a thick glacier, for now.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

That's easily solvable if you're a cartoonishly evil supervillain, you just bomb the ice sheets!

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, but he wants it and, as it would seem, he thinks the world is his playground so he can take what he wants.

5 damn centimetres... we were that close.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -1 points 1 week ago

behaving like putin, almost if hes getting advice fom him.

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago

Greenland is going to be very important as climate change continues to take hold and new shipping lanes are opened.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

they have alot of rare earths, which is why trump wants it, but its mostly inaccessible, and dangerous because it does not allow easy mining.