alt Hacker News> It's really absurd how well the Maduros kidnapping plan worked.
It's almost like people currently in the white house know what they're doing, right? Who would have thought! /s
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The current admin has been embarrassingly bad at wielding the awesome powers of the US in a meaningful way.
Of course the US are the all-powerful juggernaut with many levers to pull to use their power. Winning battles is easy. Winning the metaphorical war is harder.
They know what they are doing in the sense that it is all about the looting
I'm happy to give charity as a general principle, but here, we're a bit off (the comment is pointing out ~nothing changed, which is accurate)
They know what they're doing, it just looks like they don't because they're not doing the thing people think they're doing.
This includes the war with Iran. Double dipping by fueling the military industrial complex blowing it up, then they'll be influencing who gets the contracts for the $300B secured. It makes no sense from a geopolitical standpoint. It makes perfect sense from the perspective of enriching influential persons.
The same people attacked Iran without a plan for what to do if they closed the Strait of Hormuz