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This is simply not believable at face value. The author's article history is a party-line, narrative-embraced point of view (Trump is ready to gamble with American Lives, Honor Labor by compensating it, Feminism should make you uncomfortable, et al). That doesn't make her wrong obviously, but it indicates an inclination towards group-think I find untoward.

Regardless, even if the presented facts are "true" (whatever that means), there simply must be more to the story.

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It's literally just reporting some tweets. The tweets have been deleted, but plenty of people have screenshots.

The article doesn't have those screenshots. Hardly just reporting tweets when those tweets aren't present, no?

Are you looking at a different article? The screenshots of Silvercorp's tweets are right there.

The article presents a series of claims, and then presents evidence for those claims. Do you have any evidence that contradicts those claims or that Silvercorp didn't launch a failed coup besides your disagreement with the writer's politics?

> Are you looking at a different article? The screenshots of Silvercorp's tweets are right there.

Apparently. What I see is a text simulation of a tweet that is decidedly not a picture.

> Do you have any evidence that Silvercorp didn't launch a failed coup

Nope, which is why I didn't say that. The presented story is that an American company attempts a coup and is both on video and tweets about their involvement, implying this is at the behest of the US Government. This implication is wholly unsubstantiated.

> implying this is at the behest of the US Government

That implication isn't in there either? The nearest they come is referencing previous (real) US coup attempts in Latin America.

Another source, with sources: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/05/the-invasion-of-v...

>> implying this is at the behest of the US Government

> That implication isn't in there either?

Are you trolling or did you not read the article? The entire first paragraph is purposefully doing this. In fact, I was probably wrong for calling it an implication in the first place as they are pretty explicit:

"Normally when people practice a thing for a very long time, they become competent at it. The U.S. government, for example, has invested decades, troops, and money into its traditional activities south of the border. By this, I mean coups. The U.S. has never met a left-wing Latin American political figure it did not want to overthrow, and you would think that after a while, they’d get good at it — and that this skill, honed over so many generations, would perhaps trickle down from the CIA and sundry special forces to our patriotic mercenaries.

Enter Silvercorp USA."

"An Associated Press investigation found no evidence of U.S. government involvement in the plot."

https://apnews.com/79346b4e428676424c0e5669c80fc310

Well...yeah. That's the whole point of deniable operations: when they go to hell, you can pretend they were the work of some rogue operators. Every time one of these goes sideways, the US government tries to wash its hands of the instigators. Doesn't mean we need to be credulous enough to believe them, or the media outlets they use to launder those claims. It's absolutely legitimate to look at the CIA's body of work in South America and then roll your eyes and laugh when they try whistle innocently and stroll away from an attempted coup against a left-wing South American leader involving ex-special forces.

The way I read that is, "The US government has done a lot of meddling in Central/South America" and "You'd think as a result of such a long history, our private sector would have gotten good at it by now too."

Regional media is dropping Trump's name in particular.

For example: https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/125749192310910976...

> . @NicolasMaduro : Among the terrorist captured today they were 2 U.S. military officials from Texas. According to a member of the band they are "intermediaries with Trump's head of security". Their names are Luke Denman and Aaron Barry, members of the company Silver Corp.

I think the whole account was deleted, but here's the main Tweet for free thinkers to carry on calling fake news:

http://archive.is/5sU8n

"there simply must be more to the story" === "it's in conflict with what I want to believe"

Yes, that's what I explicitly said. This does not seem believable to me. Are you trying to imply something else?

I don’t think “===“ means what you think it means.

I disagree.

As I've outline elsewhere in these comments, there are tons of things that make absolutely zero sense about this.

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