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Comment by chasil

7 days ago

What exactly was the object of conquest?

"something conquered, especially : territory appropriated in war"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conquest

Is this Maduro and his wife?

The object of conquest remains to be seen, and if a standing army is used to achieve it.

We have the president of the United States, who ordered the assault, saying openly that “we are going to run the country” and you ask what the object of conquest was?

  • It has to be taken and held by a standing army.

    While that may come to pass, I think today we should call what has happened an "extra-judicial kidnapping" for the purposes of federal prosecution.

    That is frightening enough.

    Edit: if the Maduro kidnapping is an invasion, then it follows that the Eichmann kidnapping was likewise.

    https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/136/israel-kidnaps-ado...

    • > It has to be taken and held by a standing army

      This is just making stuff up. None of the definitions offered up here posit this requirement aside from the one apparently in your head.

      The United States sent ground troops into another country to depose its leader and install a government that will bend to United States demands. The president of the United States and his advisors have openly stated that this was done to take over the other country and extract money. This is an invasion by any reasonable definition, including the ones that have been shared here.

      > Edit: if the Maduro kidnapping is an invasion, then it follows that the Eichmann kidnapping was likewise.

      Was Eichmann the leader of Argentina? Did this action effect a systemic change in the government of Argentina or give Israel power or access to Argentinian resources?

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