World News

32857 readers

511 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

447

Trump imposes harsh sanctions on Colombia for not accepting "repatriation" flights (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

163 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a response to make them do it. And it worked. They caved.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I just saw the news that Colombia gave in.

Trump is going all in. He's reverting to the 19th century way of strong arming other countries over petty things. He's reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

He’s reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.

It never went away...