BREAKING NEWS: Nicolás Maduro has been captured | America bombs Venezuela 🇻🇪🇺🇸

[LordFall]

Vladimir Padrino Lopez the minister of national defense and a military general is now the current de-facto leader.

The 2025 winner of the nobel peace prize award Maria Corina Machado called for the presumed rightful winner of the last Venezuelan election Edmundo Gonzalez to be established as ruler of a new democratic government. He's currently in exile in Spain. 

What a juicy morning. Props to the Americans for a clean operation. The Venezuelan conflict was predicted to end up in mass famines that kill tens of thousands, hopefully that's now avoided. 

[LoneWonderer]

I don't know enough about this conflit to comment. I will read all your views on this thread and keep up with news.

*Oil companies coming in to rebuild Venezuela sounds very much like the old tried and tested strategy of economic hitmen and modern colonialism. Trump and his cronies in the oil sector win big time while the people of Venezuela get laiden with debt for the "rebuilding" these oil giants do (which will be just enought infrastructure to maintain oil flowing to the US) and that will take Venezuela forever to pay off. The venezuelans will be offered minimum wage slavery jobs by US corporations and remain in a perpetual state of poverty and reliance on the US to upkeep the aging inneffient structures they end up building.

Edited Saturday at 07:57 PM by LoneWonderer

[Sandroew]

Trump could not go a week without shooting an intellectual own goal. He is probably doing it on purpose subconsciously. He is a true clown at heart. Too bad his circus is the White House.

Edited 21 hours ago by Sandroew

[Husseinisdoingfine]

—❗️🇻🇪/🇺🇸 BREAKING: Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has been inagurated as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

 

A while ago, she made a statement on TV saying that Venezuela would never accept being a 'colony of any imperial power'.

[Sandroew]

This will be used against the West as a "rules for thee, but not for me" example. And they would be correct.

[Sandroew]

This is the background according to The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/why-trump-us-attacked-caracas-captured-venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro

[...Maduro’s rule is considered dictatorial, with the UN estimating in 2019 that more than 20,000 Venezuelans were killed in extrajudicial executions. Key institutions, such as the judiciary, have been eroded under Maduro and the rule of law has deteriorated.]

[AION]

When I heard Trump talk about peace I knew war was coming.

[Davino]

My first opinions are that probably this movement is good short term but very troublesome long term, leading to a world tension escalation.

 

My opinion on WW3 is the same, as long as Taiwan is untouched, we all good.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

—❗️🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: Maduro las landed in New York; he will be escorted to jail, specifically the MDC (Metropolitan Detention Center), the same facility where rapper Sean P. 'Diddy' Combs is incarcerated

[Husseinisdoingfine]

> Maduro and Diddy in the same jail

 

Already 2026 isn't real.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

Perfect take by Rachel Maddow:

 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NOTE: Currently, the remnants of the Maduro government are still in charge of Venezuela, and the military is on the streets

 

The Vice President, Minister of Defense, and military high command have all vowed not to surrender to the United States.

 

It is very likely another round of strikes, or possibly even an invasion, is needed to put Venezuela firmly under U.S. control. 

[Basman]

Now Trump has a track record. You think he'll invade Greenland as well as he said he would? And how is Europe going to react, since Greenland is technically part of NATO via Denmark? 

If he invades I have feeling that Europe is just going to roll over while meekly complaining.

[integration journey]

37 minutes ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NOTE: Currently, the remnants of the Maduro government are still in charge of Venezuela, and the military is on the streets

 

The Vice President, Minister of Defense, and military high command have all vowed not to surrender to the United States.

 

It is very likely another round of strikes, or possibly even an invasion, is needed to put Venezuela firmly under U.S. control. 

Shit is getting real I guess 

[Staples]

The US is the most powerful rogue state to ever have existed. Utterly disgusting this was allowed to happen without a multi-national cooperative.

From Wikipedia:

Quote

Some critics of US foreign policy describe the United States as a rogue state. William Blum's 2000 book Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower suggests that US-led interventions around the world during and after the Cold War have threatened the world's peace.[22] Noam Chomsky has also described the US as a rogue state after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani.[23] Its nuclear proliferation and large numbers of nuclear warheads (the second most in the world), sponsorship of terrorist or guerilla groups to overthrow opposing governments especially in Latin America, and violations of human rights in wartime are all suggested to be characteristics of a rogue state. The US has also passed a law threatening to invade The Hague if American officials or military personnel were to ever be prosecuted for war crimes called the American Service-Members' Protection Act.

Military interventions in foreign lands could be justified under multi-national cooperatives. But as a lone actor, seeking obvious personal gain and abusing global power, deserves the harshest sanctions and punishment.

In my fucking opinion.

[Staples]

The only conclusion I can make about this from a game theory perspective is that the US must be so financially screwed that it's only survival strategy is to fund the war machine and pillage the world. 

And they don't plan on sharing.

Edited yesterday at 03:09 AM by Staples

[Lyubov]

Russia wants Ukraine. China wants Taiwan. 

USA vindicates itself over Venezuela.

Fucked up!

[Lyubov]

11 hours ago, PenguinPablo said:

They lack the intelligence and infinitely comfortable with self deception and no capacity for cognitive dissonance.

Impossible to reason with.

It’s why I haven’t really spoken to anyone with right wing political opinions in real life or online anywhere but here. In reality you will never show these people up or reason with them. They are so shut off it’s like when a child screams and covers their ears. 

let’s start a list of switch ups that Trump supports voted him in for but got left holding the bag like a bunch of fucktards

- Epstein files

- Foreign intervention 

- Lower prices  

 

[Porphyry Fedotov]

So America just had a special military operation of their own basically. Same as Russia. Unfourtunately, nobody is gonna sunction or judge them for the aggressive regime change. At least this time they are clear that it's all about oil

1 hour ago, Lyubov said:

Russia wants Ukraine. China wants Taiwan. 

USA vindicates itself over Venezuela.

Fucked up!

Well China hasn't invaded anyone and is building it's empire strictly by economic measures (building infrastructure and stuff all over the world) while the USA is actively destibilizing the world with endless wars

[zazen]

Katie Miller is Stephen Miller's wife (the White House deputy chief of staff for policy). See what she tweeted about Greenland and what Denmark’s Ambassador to the US responded: https://x.com/dkambusa/status/2007607563601273179?s=46&t=DuLUbFRQFGpB8oo7PwRglQ

Russia’s special military op at least has some security logic behind it that can be understood - even if the response to events on the ground are completely unjustifiable and aggressive. This US special op doesn’t and is blatant imperialism. Had China or Russia placed  bases and missiles pointed to US then it would have introduced a security logic making it more understandable.

Maduro may be bad (many Venezuelans are happy for his removal) but the system that decides who’s “bad” is even more dangerous because it’s unaccountable and selectively applied by a US led Western hegemonic order that can unilaterally impose sanctions - that deteriorate conditions that render the leader of a country less legitimate and thus more ripe for overthrow.

All the Euro leadership is barking and toeing the same line “Maduro was illegitimate and we believe in international law and democracy” LOL

Maduro was a democratically (maybe contested) elected leader governing a fragile petro-state, whose legitimacy was eroded through external economic warfare that created the very conditions later used to justify his removal.

Now ya’ll know what BRICS and the global south are trying to extricate themselves from and why.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2025/9/3/us-and-eu-sanctions-have-killed-38-million-people-since-1970

”The Lancet Global Health, which gives us a global view for the first time. Led by the economist Francisco Rodriguez at the University of Denver, the study calculates the total number of excess deaths associated with international sanctions from 1970 to 2021.

The results are staggering. In their central estimate, the authors find that unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and EU since 1970 are associated with 38 million deaths. In some years, during the 1990s, more than a million people were killed. In 2021, the most recent year of data, sanctions caused more than 800,000 deaths.

According to these results, several times more people are killed by sanctions each year than are killed as direct casualties of war (on average, about 100,000 people per year). More than half of the victims are children and the elderly, people who are most vulnerable to malnutrition. The study finds that, since 2012 alone, sanctions have killed more than one million children.

Hunger and deprivation are not an accidental by-product of Western sanctions; they are a key objective. This is clear from a State Department memo written in April 1960, which explains the purpose of US sanctions against Cuba. The memo noted that Fidel Castro – and the revolution more broadly – enjoyed widespread popularity in Cuba. It argued that “every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba,” by “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”.

The power of Western sanctions hinges on their control over the world’s reserve currencies (the US dollar and the Euro), their control over international payment systems (SWIFT), and their monopoly over essential technologies (eg satellites, cloud computation, software). If countries in the Global South wish to chart a more independent path towards a multipolar world, they will need to take steps to limit their dependence in these respects and thus insulate themselves from backlash. The recent experience of Russia shows that such an approach can succeed.”

 

Edited 16 hours ago by zazen