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Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts) Tue Apr 30, 2019, 08:08 PM Apr 2019

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a bidding war has erupted in after hours trading ...

between Donald Trump and Nicolas Maduro on the long term lease of Julian Assange's former room in the Ecuadorian Embassy

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a bidding war has erupted in after hours trading ... (Original Post) Snake Plissken Apr 2019 OP

Put in bunk beds (and about a dozen more rats) hlthe2b Apr 2019 #1

LOL Iliyah Apr 2019 #2

More serious than that. There are Cuban and Russian forces there. Maduro's not leaving. brush Apr 2019 #3

hlthe2b

(102,249 posts)

1. Put in bunk beds (and about a dozen more rats)

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Tue Apr 30, 2019, 08:09 PM

Apr 2019

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

2. LOL

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Tue Apr 30, 2019, 08:10 PM

Apr 2019

brush

(53,776 posts)

3. More serious than that. There are Cuban and Russian forces there. Maduro's not leaving.

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Tue Apr 30, 2019, 08:13 PM

Apr 2019

OTOH, a protest leader from the other side has sought asylum in the Chilean embassy. What's up with that?

With Russain and Cuban forces there and US aircraft carriers sailing there, this has the potential to be a very tense standoff—unless of course trump backs down to Putin, as has happened quite often.

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