Maduro says Venezuela is 'ready' to make deal with US on drugs and oil after military strikes - WINNING!

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Thursday that his government is open to negotiating an agreement with the United States after months of American military pressure targeting drug trafficking networks tied to his government.

In a pre-taped interview with Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet that aired on state television, Maduro said Venezuela is "ready" to discuss a drug-trafficking deal with the U.S. He called on the countries to "start talking seriously, with data in hand."

"The U.S. government knows, because we’ve told many of their spokespeople, that if they want to seriously discuss an agreement to combat drug trafficking, we’re ready," he said. "If they want oil, Venezuela is ready for U.S. investment, like with Chevron, whenever they want it, wherever they want it and however they want it."

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[Frozenbeernuts 2,466]

Notice that he didn't say fishing boats are being blown up constantly. Weird.

Because why tf would Trump spend all of thst time, energy, and money going after fishing boats? It's just common sense libs.

Winning.

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3 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Notice that he didn't say fishing boats are being blown up constantly. Weird.

Yup, without saying it, he pretty much acknowledged that they were drug boats. 

Trump will end up getting what he wants and it could cripple Russia. 

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2 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Yup, without saying it, he pretty much acknowledged that they were drug boats. 

Trump will end up getting what he wants and it could cripple Russia. 

He will. Venezuela doesn't stand a chance. Their operations were supported by Obama and Biden. One president decided to do something about it and look at what happens. He starts crying uncle immediately.

This one is pretty cut and dry. Cartels have been running drugs into the US for decades. The war on drugs was a total farce. This is what needs to be done. But of course because Trump was the one to actually decide to do something, liberals will take the side of the drug cartels.

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6 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Yup, without saying it, he pretty much acknowledged that they were drug boats. 

Trump will end up getting what he wants and it could cripple Russia. 

Why would trump want to cripple Russia?  Why not just enforce the Russian sanctions that congress passed?

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2 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

He will. Venezuela doesn't stand a chance. Their operations were supported by Obama and Biden. One president decided to do something about it and look at what happens. He starts crying uncle immediately.

This one is pretty cut and dry. Cartels have been running drugs into the US for decades. The war on drugs was a total farce. This is what needs to be done. But of course because Trump was the one to actually decide to do something, liberals will take the side of the drug cartels.

Still thinks this about drugs

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Just now, Ron_Artest said:

Why would trump want to cripple Russia?  Why not just enforce the Russian sanctions that congress passed?

This is enforcing them. Cutting off Venezuela is a huge blow to Russia!!! Even you'd have to agree. 

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2 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Still thinks this about drugs

Drugs are a vital economic component of Maduros government.  Sad you run your mouth so much yet you can’t figure out the basics. 

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Just now, Hardcore troubadour said:

Drugs are a vital economic component of Maduros government.  Sad you run your mouth so much yet you can’t figure out the basics. 

@Ron_Artest is very confused right now, the poor little thing 

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2 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Still thinks this about drugs

Well idk. I do grapple with the idea that Trump just likes picking off random fishing boats coming out of Venesuela.

It makes no sense at all, and I feel like anyone who believes that is a complete moron. But once I use the liberal strategy of throwing out all common sense and just making stuff up in my head, I can see how someone would come to that conclusion.

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4 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

This is enforcing them. Cutting off Venezuela is a huge blow to Russia!!! Even you'd have to agree. 

You didn't answer my question, and there is no evidence he's cutting off Russia.

Again, Trump chose not to enforce sanctions on Russia and has taken Russias side in the war.  He has no interest in crippling Russia.

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Are we at war yet?

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1 minute ago, Ron_Artest said:

You didn't answer my question, and there is no evidence he's cutting off Russia.

Again, Trump chose not to enforce sanctions on Russia and has taken Russias side in the war.  He has no interest in crippling Russia.

Do you have the day off from work from home?  

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1 minute ago, Strike said:

Are we at war yet?

@Ron_Artest says YES WE ARE 

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1 minute ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Well idk. I do grapple with the idea that Trump just likes picking off random fishing boats coming out of Venesuela.

It makes no sense at all, and I feel like anyone who believes that is a complete moron. But once I use the liberal strategy of throwing out all common sense and just making stuff up in my head, I can see how someone would come to that conclusion.

It's not random.  It's about flexing our muscle in our hemisphere.  It's about getting maduro out and getting a us friendly president in so American companies can get the oil.

Trump doesn't give a fock about drugs and murdering these drug traffickers has little to no impact on drugs coming to the US.  Trump pardoned drug traffickers.  He doesn't care.

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1 minute ago, Ron_Artest said:

It's not random.

These are NOT FISHING VESSELS. 

DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A FISHING VESSEL LOOKS LIKE?? THESE WERE CLEARLY SMUGGLERS 

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4 minutes ago, Horseman said:

Do you have the day off from work from home?  

How many times are you going to ask me about my work schedule?  It's like HT with the shoveling my driveway?  What is wrong with you weirdos?

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3 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

It's not random.  It's about flexing our muscle in our hemisphere.  It's about getting maduro out and getting a us friendly president in so American companies can get the oil.

Trump doesn't give a fock about drugs and murdering these drug traffickers has little to no impact on drugs coming to the US.  Trump pardoned drug traffickers.  He doesn't care.

Right. So attacking drug smuggling boats is how we get oil. Makes perfect sense.

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13 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Still thinks this about drugs

The drug component of any deal will be like the one we made with Canada.  

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4 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Right. So attacking drug smuggling boats is how we get oil. Makes perfect sense.

Well if we're to believe Maduro it looks like it worked, genius.

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Just now, Ron_Artest said:

Well if we're to believe Maduro it looks like it worked, genius.

Don’t you say they were fishing boats? 

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Just now, Ron_Artest said:

Well if we're to believe Maduro it looks like it worked, genius.

You're right, Trump's strategy worked. Thanks Trump.

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1 minute ago, Ron_Artest said:

Well if we're to believe Maduro it looks like it worked, genius.

This is hard for you isn't it?? 

All your rhetoric and lies have come to an end. You were 100% wrong, on everything! 

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It’s about oil and regime change not drugs. HTH

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gutterboy = 70’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers 

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27 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Right. So attacking drug smuggling boats is how we get oil. Makes perfect sense.

Correct, now you’re getting it!

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35 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Don’t you say they were fishing boats? 

We don't know if they were drug or fishing boats

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24 minutes ago, edjr said:

gutterboy = 70’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers 

What does this mean?

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35 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

This is hard for you isn't it?? 

All your rhetoric and lies have come to an end. You were 100% wrong, on everything! 

This was about oil and regime change, just like I said, and now proven correct.

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38 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

You're right, Trump's strategy worked. Thanks Trump.

Yes his mob boss strategy may be working here.  Why are you thanking him?  You own Chevron?

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5 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Yes his mob boss strategy may be working here.  Why are you thanking him?  You own Chevron?

Gutternuts is always in pain. 

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Cool. Let’s import all the hot Venezuelan women and export load- mouthed white liberal women.  A Replacement Theory we can all support.  

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45 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Correct, now you’re getting it!

Ok so we are all on the same page here that Trump is targeting drug smuggling boats.

We still need to work on the part where you think this is a bad thing, but we are making progress.

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29 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Yes his mob boss strategy may be working here.  Why are you thanking him?  You own Chevron?

Because Maduro is willing to negotiate with the US. That means better things for the US, and hopefully it means he will cooperate to stop drug cartels.

You wouldn't know what winning looked like. Not even if you named your vibrator winning.

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2 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Ok so we are all on the same page here that Trump is targeting drug smuggling boats.

We still need to work on the part where you think this is a bad thing, but we are making progress.

Well that’s quite the shift from “this is what needs to be done” to stop cartels, lol

1 hour ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

This one is pretty cut and dry. Cartels have been running drugs into the US for decades. The war on drugs was a total farce. This is what needs to be done. 

 

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7 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Because Maduro is willing to negotiate with the US. That means better things for the US, and hopefully it means he will cooperate to stop drug cartels.

You wouldn't know what winning looked like. Not even if you named your vibrator winning.

What better things for you?

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46 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

We don't know if they were drug or fishing boats

Yes, we do. Fishing boats are fishing boats. 

These were not 

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Ignacio Ramonet: The most serious American media have already said that some of the arguments put forward by the US administration in this pressure against Venezuela, for example, saying that Venezuela is a “cocaine-producing country,” have already been said to be untrue. It is not said by the Venezuelan government, it is stated by the US media themselves. It doesn’t make sense. It does not correspond to the reality demonstrated by anyone knowledgeable about the subject. And regarding the oil issue, the statement by the US president, saying he disagrees with the “nationalization of oil” that took place in 1976, that is, long before Chavismo, also makes no sense. So the concrete argumentation for this military pressure is not clearly seen.

Nicolas Maduro: Look, about the drugs I can tell you. Venezuela has a model, I would say, perfect, for combatting drug trafficking. Today we managed to destroy the foreign plane of Colombian drug trafficking, number forty. Who? The Venezuelan Sukhois. To the pilots, my recognition. Today in combat in the Venezuelan Llano the last operational chief of the Tren del Llano was neutralized, in Guárico, along with four of his criminal henchmen. He was the last one remaining from the Tren del Llano. We have a perfect model of combatting drug trafficking, criminal gangs. So, all the cocaine moving in this region is produced in Colombia. All of it. All the cocaine. We are victims of Colombian drug trafficking.

Not just today, for decades. And with our model, we have managed to control the impact that Colombian drug trafficking had in Venezuela in past times.

So, we have a tremendous fight at the border. We dedicate billions of resources to have police, soldiers, operations, because the Colombian border is totally devoid of military police protection. We have created three peace zones in the 2,200 kilometers of border with Colombia. But there is no collaboration on the Colombian side. So, we have to do all the work ourselves.

And these forty aircraft shot down, the forty came from Colombia… With the law in hand, the interdiction law, they were warned in time, everything that had to be done was done, and then, bam bam bam, the rockets from the Sukhoi fighter jets.

Today we have reached 431 foreign and Colombian drug trafficking aircraft shot down… With the law in hand. So we have an exemplary and very effective model.

Everything else, look, is part of a narrative that even in the United States they do not believe for any reason. And simply, since they cannot accuse me, since they cannot accuse Venezuela of having weapons of mass destruction, since they cannot accuse us of having nuclear rockets, of preparing a nuclear weapon, of having chemical weapons, they invented an accusation that the United States knows is as false as that accusation of weapons of mass destruction, which led them to an eternal war.

In the United States, they know that is false. So, I think all that should be set aside and we should start talking seriously, with data in hand, and the US government knows this, because we have told many of its spokespeople, that if they want to talk seriously about an agreement to combat drug trafficking, we are ready. If they want Venezuelan oil, Venezuela is ready for US investments like with Chevron, whenever they want, wherever they want, and however they want.

In the United States, they should know that if they want comprehensive economic development agreements, also here in Venezuela — I have said it a thousand times — look at what happened with the migrants issue. I have to tell you, because we reached an agreement on January 31, 2024, with the envoy Rick Grenell, it was working perfectly, and three weeks ago, the US government authorities renounced continuing to send migrants to Venezuela,and they simply didn’t send more migrants… So they talk about the migration issue, but they are the ones who suspended the migration agreement, among other issues. If someday there were rationality and diplomacy, they could perfectly well talk, and we have the maturity and the stature. Besides, we are people of our word, Ramonet. We are people of our word, serious people. And someday that could be discussed, with the current government or with whoever comes next.<<<
 

The Ramonet Interview.

- This is a typically long rambler. Reminds me a lot of Trump actually. But this is a long way of saying Venezuela has been trying this offer of coordination & oil deals for months & it has no idea what the US is doing in response.