>>6402625 pb

>> How did the FBI know Manafort was going to be hired by Trump campaign?

Kushner.

In their own words, he and Ivanka got married because "it was just good business." Don't get me wrong - I don't think Ivanka is 'in on it' - I think career women can view everything through the wrong lens, though, and miss the point of a husband/wife relationship. Wealthy career women have WEIRD relations with their husbands, in my limited sample size of experience, there.

Anyway - here is the deal, Ivanka is friends with one of the ex wives of a Deripaska cohort. Deripaska came under sanctions a while back, and there were some rumors circulating that Ivanka's businesses could be sanctioned, as well.

See how this all plays out? She is in an extremely vulnerable spot.

This was made even more vulnerable when Manafort was hired onto the campaign at the behest of Kushner. Manafort handled a number of asset transfers for Deripaska back in the day and had assets tied down under sanctions. Anyone would agree that he had plenty of motive to adopt a pro-Russian stance that favored removal of sanctions.

To save her business assets, it is likely that Ivanka would have transferred them to her husband to try and spare them from being completely destroyed by sanctions. Why not? It makes business sense.

But how would the court case have unfolded of "Manafort is a pro-Russian spy" played out when she also has a loose link to Deripaska and a connection to the Trump campaign?

Kushner gains a generous amount of business holdings from the Trump family and the whole family gets ensnared in a "blood crime" that is not supposed to happen under our Constitution.

Of course, when you look at Kushner, himself, his businesses were all effectively bought on loan from Soros. Refer to POTUS saying "small loan" and "which I paid back, by the way."

I will guess, in an educated manner, that Trump was sniping at his son-in-law, there.

Maybe I am just an ass for going down this route, but I will play heavily off of Q's statements of "they do not marry for love" and "a father's love for his child knows no bounds." Taking those two points into consideration, as well as this situation… I am going to say "well, Kushner raises some red flags when you look."

>>6403284

Honestly, a discussion of Venezuela requires a level of study that is beyond autistic binging on family lines.

The country was being run by socialists and the government was progressively seizing private assets under the philosophy of "the beatings will continue until morale improves."

Venezuela regime change, at that point, is an eventuality. It is not truthfully up for discussion, the country is imploding and the authority of the nation so undermined that it must undergo substantial change. This is going to trend away from socialism, and there are only dozens of global entities who have an interest in who gets to sail that ship.

There is blood in the water and oil in the ground - the sharks are going to circle. Everyone wants to either have domain over the oil resources of Venezuela and the domestic business/economic policies are secondary/tertiary concerns to those involved. It's extremely difficult to say there is a good side or a bad side, but there are people within the country who are more focused on building it than enriching themselves.

It's a repeat of Vietnam, in many ways. South Vietnam had a regime change and the CIA put a Vietnamese immigrant in charge rather than pro-west Vietnamese locals who were popular and loved at the time. The result was that one regime change led to another regime change and the evacuation at Saigon.

I'm not going to pretend to know who is whom down there - but it is obvious that we are not talking about whether or not regime change is going to occur - but which direction it is going to trend. Maduro is going to be replaced. His own policies set that in stone years ago.

>>6403469

It could also be that they don't exactly have guns to shoot with, either.

The fact of the matter is that Maduro invited privatization in to build the infrastructure, then used his military to say the contract was no longer valid and it belonged to him. Now they can't even keep it running and no one is willing to do business with him - or them, for that matter.

What happened is effectively theft.

We can debate the policies of corporations around and around as to whether or not they are "fair" - but the fact of the matter is that the citizens are not in control, and Maduro only has defacto control because no one has committed to removing him.

Again - a scenario where Maduro remains is impossible at this point. There are laws that bind even the gods and are not open to debate. You break them and the result is a "magic" response by social and physical orders that smites you. It appears to be magic to the unlearned eye, but I digress.

Venezuela does not have the option of socialism. It doesn't work, for one. They, also, do not currently have the option of owning infrastructure they can't operate. Or, I should say, they can't operate it without accepting foreign contract. They are not going to get favorable foreign contracts without substantial changes. Maduro has put them in a position where their only real bargaining chip is that they are a labor force to be utilized, which happens to be on a strategic energy resource.

If you believe any of the parties out there but Q's are looking at them as anything other than a resource in a very weak bargaining position - then you are naive. Even the "not evil" players out there do not often see themselves in a position to extend mercy. They are used to playing a cut-throat game and may not bleed someone to death, but will also not pass up an advantage yielding a profit.

It will be some time before everyone winds down from the kill-or-be-killed game of global finance and feels comfortable cutting others slack.

Until then - win, lose, or draw doesn't really change much for Venezuela.