Venezuela

[stickdog99]

There's a new Conquistador in town.

[Grizzly]

https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8?si=qAKf-QOI2AVEHmpl

"same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was..."

[Elihu]

you know a funny new picture of the world's business is coalescing. brought on by the impending bankruptcy i presume. cuban security forces securing the palace in venezuela? the economic and social development of such places would naturally regress under such direct methods of state terror. same thing intimated in other latin countries. attacking the v & c nexus therefore makes sense. respectable countries are now run on the mafia boss principle: if the boss sees a chunk of rival territory and thinks he can get it, well, good on im. courts and laws are passe'. and let's consider the occlusion in the lenses of our own eyeballs: drug interdiction. since it cannot be stopped anymore than raindrops can be stopped, it guarantees continuous war. the people involved are working their butts off to destroy their own countries. this "somali" fraud also makes sense if you have to account for the cash volcano coming out of the bureau of fiscal services. there's just too much money, it has to be going somewhere. and since we can look around and see the destitution all around us you can only conclude it's being mis-appropriated. i warned that trump could leak it out as needed. everybody in congress is on the take. literally. they're paid poodles. virtue has no place in a casino. three big un-conquerable super-states. the warfare conducted in the third world southern nations over resources. secret police everywhere. a-eye investment bubble? are they kidding? it's the build out of the digital gulag into which we will be herded.

[DrEvil]

Welcome to the multi-polar world order. Russia and the US are already balls deep in their respective "spheres of influence" *. Can't wait for China to get in on the game too. It's been too long since we had a proper world war.

* Jesus Christ I hate that term. Just because you're a huge fucking asshole doesn't make it right for you to dictate to all your neighbors what to do.

[Laodicean]

[stickdog99]

What's so ironic about recent US actions in Venezuela is that the flimsy pretexts that the neocon imperialists and the US military-indu$trial complex have been using to gin up support for their windfall profit taking in Ukraine have so clearly been exposed as utterly hollow.

Most of us who spend any time thinking about what we call politics now realize this, and it still doesn't matter because we can't do anything about it. All over the world, regular people who just want to live in peace and to leave the world a little bit better than they found it are ruled by warlords and gangsters who blithely use all abhorrent means from child rape to child slaughter to human trafficking to torture to assassination to genocide to above all massive levels of corruption and fraud to project their power.

And perhaps the worst of this to me is that the "solutions" to the societal suffering and heinous problems caused by all of our misleaders' sociopathy, corruption, and incompetence is always to further restrict the rights and freedoms of regular individuals through censorship, mass surveillance, mass incarceration, mandatory technocracy, and further centralization of power. Basically, they cause the illnesses, and their prescriptions are always further punishment for those they made ill.

It's a sick fight to the bottom in which the most sociopathic seemingly always win. And while "civilization" has always been this way to some degree, at least when I was younger the gangster, warlord, and human trafficking classes had to veil or at least provide excuses to "justify" their most heinous crimes.

Now, "they have stuff that our oligarchs want" appears to suffice. And we all just shake our heads sheepishly and knowingly in response.

[DrEvil]

The one good thing about Trump is that he says the quiet part out loud. There's no ambiguity about the motive here, so hopefully in the future when the "proper" establishment is back in control and laying the groundwork for the next adventure more people will call bullshit.

[Harvey]

Should have come with a warning. If this guy isn't a direct CIA asset, I'll be very astonished if he isn't CIA adjacent. Very much enjoyed his insinuations that the obvious effects of 20 years of American siege warfare against Venezuela can be somewhat laconically summarised as 'Communism.' What a prick.

[Laodicean]

an incredibly huge prick. Has to be a Nazi...

[BenDhyan]

https://x.com/nettermike/status/2009843044028428714

Maduro Bodyguard Reveals Stunning Information About U.S. Attack on Compound

This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed.

Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn’t hear anything coming. We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react.

Interviewer: So what happened next? How was the main attack?

Security Guard: After those drones appeared, some helicopters arrived, but there were very few. I think barely eight helicopters. From those helicopters, soldiers came down, but a very small number. Maybe twenty men. But those men were technologically very advanced. They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before.

Interviewer: And then the battle began?

Security Guard: Yes, but it was a massacre. We were hundreds, but we had no chance. They were shooting with such precision and speed… it seemed like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute. We couldn’t do anything.

Interviewer: And your own weapons? Didn’t they help?

Security Guard: No help at all. Because it wasn’t just the weapons. At one point, they launched something—I don’t know how to describe it… it was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.

Interviewer: And your comrades? Did they manage to resist?

Security Guard: No, not at all. Those twenty men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us. We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I’ve never seen anything like it. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was.

Interviewer: So, do you think the rest of the region should think twice before confronting the Americans?

Security Guard: Without a doubt. I’m sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States. They have no idea what they’re capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They’re not to be messed with.

Interviewer: And now that Trump has said Mexico is on the list, do you think the situation will change in Latin America?

Security Guard: Definitely. Everyone is already talking about this. No one wants to go through what we went through. Now everyone thinks twice. What happened here is going to change a lot of things, not just in Venezuela but throughout the region.

[Spiro C. Thiery]

Tech porn propaganda: "Don't resist the gringos, amigos!"

https://x.com/nettermike/status/2009843044028428714
Maduro Bodyguard Reveals Stunning Information About U.S. Attack on Compound

[Elihu]

What's so ironic about recent US actions in Venezuela is that the flimsy pretexts that the neocon imperialists and the US military-indu$trial complex have been using to gin up support for their windfall profit taking in Ukraine have so clearly been exposed as utterly hollow.

Most of us who spend any time thinking about what we call politics now realize this, and it still doesn't matter because we can't do anything about it. All over the world, regular people who just want to live in peace and to leave the world a little bit better than they found it are ruled by warlords and gangsters who blithely use all abhorrent means from child rape to child slaughter to human trafficking to torture to assassination to genocide to above all massive levels of corruption and fraud to project their power.

And perhaps the worst of this to me is that the "solutions" to the societal suffering and heinous problems caused by all of our misleaders' sociopathy, corruption, and incompetence is always to further restrict the rights and freedoms of regular individuals through censorship, mass surveillance, mass incarceration, mandatory technocracy, and further centralization of power. Basically, they cause the illnesses, and their prescriptions are always further punishment for those they made ill.

It's a sick fight to the bottom in which the most sociopathic seemingly always win. And while "civilization" has always been this way to some degree, at least when I was younger the gangster, warlord, and human trafficking classes had to veil or at least provide excuses to "justify" their most heinous crimes.

Now, "they have stuff that our oligarchs want" appears to suffice. And we all just shake our heads sheepishly and knowingly in response.

[Grizzly]

https://youtu.be/APmgHMDOObk