• PeacefulForest@lemmy.world
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    That would be a good reason for the secretary of war to… well… go to war. They’re already clearly bloodthirsty since they proudly display bombing Venezuelas boats like it’s no big deal.

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      and forcing the generals to show up to a pointless speech was a show of strength.

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    False flag attack on Venezuela incoming. Anything to direct from the Epstein files … literally ANYTHING.

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      This is bad analysis.

      They’re gonna do a false flag on Venezuela because they want to destroy a left-wing government. The fact that it will distract from the Epstein files is a positive side effect, but they are enacting an agenda beyond it.

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        Another nuke dropped in Vancouver? Man, he really wants people to forget the Epstein files smh

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      Why would they attack the US embassy when the US literally at their doorstep with missiles pointed at them, fishing for an excuse.

      Should probably be looking at the people looking for the excuse.

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              Claim: absolutely true shit said by somebody I don’t want to think is right

              Reality: the most genocidal, warmongering, racist country ever told me “nah bro it wasn’t like that” and I identify with them so much that I just took their word for it

              • Archangel1313@lemmy.caBanned from community
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                You clearly haven’t spoken to very many Venezuelans, have you? I have lots of extended family there, and I can assure you, they don’t support Maduro. The only people that still do, are either being bribed or extorted.

                There aren’t very many “true Chavistas” left. And the ones that are still there, also don’t unanimously support Maduro. Chavez was inspirational. Maduro is just incompetent.

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                  My bad I didn’t know you knew a statistically significant portion of venezuelans of a random array of educational, economic, and cultural backgrounds. This is for real the first time some gringo tells me they know a Russian/Venezuelan/Cuban/Chinese/whatever somebody (making them basically an authority on the subject).

                  I guess the sanctions that were designed precisely for the purpose of causing unrest have nothing to do with the people desperate or angry enough to go to those Nazi-ass countries being very dissatisfied with the situation at home. What a fucking revelation, I’m telling you.

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                I actually had that one saved on my phone. This isn’t the 1st time I’ve made the argument that Maduro is a bad leader.

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                  You saved that drivel on your phone as if it were useful for anything other than smoking gun proof you’re a dope?

                  First off the entire premise of your argument is fucking stupid. He’s a bad leader? Oh well! Not your fucking problem! He’s the democratically elected leader of that country so fuck off.

                  But even allowing your hitleresque premise that you should be allowed to murder tens or hundreds of thousands of people because they voted wrong, your arguments are as stupid as a New York Times article and for the exact same reasons. Just taking a sample from the middle:

                  Reality: Economists and international organizations primarily attribute the economic crisis to the Maduro government’s policies, including price controls, currency mismanagement, and corruption. U.S. sanctions were largely targeted at specific individuals and sectors, rather than the general economy, and many of the economic issues predated the most severe sanctions.

                  “The people applying the sanctions to their country, who are actively engaged in a propaganda campaign to de-legitimize it, and who are repeatedly murdering their civilians with military attacks on random fucking boats sailing around it, said the sanctions aren’t what made the country bad, it was already bad!”

                  Fucking baby brain.

                  If you actually believe the line that sanctions don’t hurt the general economy you’re a fucking moron and I can’t be effusive enough on that point. You’re extremely fucking stupid to think that. It’s literally the entire fucking point of them. The politicians putting them in place say so explicitly in all situations except in this specific context when they’re defending themselves against critics. The entire point of sanctions is to make the population blame and overthrow the government.

                  https://www.state.gov/venezuela-related-sanctions/

                  Bet that link is blue for you

                  Reality: The U.S., Canada, and the European Union all condemned the election as neither free nor fair. The Venezuelan opposition presented overwhelming evidence suggesting their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won by a wide margin, contradicting the government’s official results.

                  “Trump said the election was stolen that’s why I’m building a gallows for Mike Pence”

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              Updated August 8, 2023

              Venezuela: Overview of U.S. Sanctions For over 17 years, the United States has imposed sanctions in response to activities of the Venezuelan government and Venezuelan individuals.

              https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF10715/IF10715.42.pdf

              Yeah I guess theyre just bad at math or something, sanctions don’t have an impact, that’s why the usa imposes them

              accusation: nuh uhhhh

              reality: youre a bozo

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                Venezuela isn’t being hit any harder than any other country the US has beef with. Those other countries aren’t all collapsing under the weight of those sanctions. In every other case, they’ve managed to find a stable equilibrium within their own means. So, why is Venezuela so different? Why isn’t Iran experiencing rolling blackouts in a weekly basis? Why is Cuba able to fund cutting edge medical research?

                Venezuela has no shortage of natural resources at its disposal, and also no shortage of countries willing to do business with them, despite the sanctions. There is no reason why they should have failed so completely, to maintain even a minimum level of economic stability.

                But, they haven’t. They’re unique in both their economic and infrastructural collapse, as well as their out of control inflation. Almost everything they’ve done over the last two decades has made their situation worse than it should have been. It’s like they took all the available options, and chose the ones that would cause the most damage.

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              You are a bot for the USA against Venezuela, the USA has attempted more than a dozen coups in this country . Full stop. Your neck is brown

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                Nope. My wife is Venezuelan, and most of her family were originally Chavez supporters. None of them still support Maduro at this point. He isn’t even a Socialist. He’s just an opportunistic parasite that’s taking advantage of what Chavez tried to build.

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                  I feel for you brother.

                  How did you and your family feel over the past three decades as the United States attempted over 15 coups in your country?

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            I don’t disagree with you. That doesn’t mean that the Maduro government isn’t also corrupt and incompetent.

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          Maduro using the USA as a bogeyman is a lot different from going to war with the USA.

          At this point, the USA is looking for an excuse to go to war and Maduro has backed down from a lot of positions to keep the USA from having any excuses.

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              The first Trump administration did the same thing to Iran that this administration is trying to do to Venezuela, get the weaker nation to do something that would be construed as a casus belli to justify regime change. Trump wants to be a wartime president without being the aggressor.

              Maduro may be bleeding support, but Venezuela can’t win a war against the USA and Trump is looking for any excuse to go to war. Having an American ship parked off shore should be enough to pull in some patriotic support. However, any aggression against the USA now could be used as an excuse for regime change.

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                Except there was no regime change in Iran. They just rattled their swords for the crowd, which is all they’re doing now.

                And for the record, the US has a long history of losing to so-called “weaker countries”, when asymmetrical warfare is involved. The only war they actually managed to “finish” recently, was the invasion of Iraq…and that was largely because the Iraqi population wasn’t actually trying to fight back. Venezuela would not be the same.

                And I’m not trying to say this would be a smart move by Maduro…just desperation. Right now, half the population in Venezuela don’t even believe the government when they say there’s an American fleet parked offshore. The government has been saying shit like that every other week for the last 12 years, and it always turns out to either be totally overblown, or straight up bullshit. People there just aren’t buying into the propaganda like they used to. Which is never a good sign for a dictatorship that relies on fear mongering, in order to maintain loyalty.

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          Why instigate an invasion when the enemy is literally at the door blowing up civilians? This makes zero sense.

          Maybe the US should stop giving him excuses to use them as an universal boogeyman if they want the 16th coup attempt to work.

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      1. Symbolically attack a US embassy

      2. Get bombed into the stone age by a war hungry American president

      3. ???

      4. Profit