Comment by jeroenhd
2 days ago
Curacao is a few kilometers of the Venezuelan coast, but the Americans have deemed the entire ocean north of Venezuela as military operations. The people in charge probably don't even know Curacao isn't part of Venezuela.
With effectively no military and the Dutch government being an American lapdog, I doubt the people in charge need to care. They're already out there with orders to commit war crimes, shooting down an airliner or two that gets too close to their military aircraft wouldn't make much of a difference in the long run.
> The people in charge probably don't even know Curacao isn't part of Venezuela
assuming Lieutenant General Evan Lamar Pettus is in charge
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but yeah, he probably doesn't know Curacao isn't part of Venezuela.
“Lieutenant General Evan Lamar Pettus” is not “in charge”.
Trump and Hegseth are.
are you suggesting trump and hegseth planned the refueling route?
Be real.
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The camel has taken a lot of straw in 2025 but:
> shooting down an airliner or two that gets too close to their military aircraft wouldn't make much of a difference in the long run.
Would surely break its back?
I used to think that about so many things the Americans have been doing that I no longer have faith that there is a limit to the absurdity.
Look, I understand, but we have a concrete event here that is being discussed and there is no evidence anywhere for what you came up with. Adding feeling-based imagination instead of sticking to facts just makes the discussion much worse - and much closer to behavior you seem to object to.
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Did the the camel gain a single stalk when the Vincennes crossed into Iranian territory and shot down a passenger jet?
Yes. Of course. It ended the tanker war.
Iraq and Iran had been pissant slap-fighting over oil tankers for years. The tanker war ended with the Vincennes incident.
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The Americans literally want Venezuela to shoot at them so that they can use it as a justification.
But Maduro ain't no fool.
What people may not know is that Curacao- like many Carribbean islands- is entirely dependent on tourism. Basically they're fucked.
Well this was a JetBlue airliner, presumably full of American tourists. Probably not a very popular move to shoot that down.