He then sought emergency decree powers from Venezuela's Congress, mobilized troops, and called upon Venezuelans to defend their country from an imminent U.S. "aggression".
Chávez, for his part, seems to have learned that he gets much less mileage from warning his people of an imminent Yankee aggression now that America is under Obama than he did during the Bush years.
While American anti-communists agitated for war and spread fear of imminent Soviet aggression, Eisenhower believed otherwise.
Sometimes the approach is to use threats of imminent government aggression (e.g. Beck's warning about mass murders and Limbaugh's prediction of government crackdowns on dissent), while other times they use language to promote the idea that the conflict is a violent one (e.g. Limbaugh's "war" comment).
"The use of weapons was necessary and proportional against the real and imminent and unlawful aggression," Sales said.
"The use of weapons was necessary and proportional against the real and imminent and unlawful aggression," he told reporters.
In all of these cases, we should employ all the multilateral instruments at our disposal, working with NATO and the UN and also organizations like the IMF and the World Bank to deploy both carrots (including trade and other economic incentives) and sticks (sanctions and, in the case of aggression or imminent threats, force).
Stationed near the salt flats of Lake Assal, without imminent assignment, they alternate between aggression and existential futility.
Even the mildest statements of Yankee disdain for the Kim dynasty are treated as acts of aggression, tantamount to declarations of imminent invasion.
Individuals showed no obvious behavioral signs of imminent departure and did not seem to face increased aggression prior to and during dispersal.
