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

[LambdaDelta]

1 hour ago, LoneWonderer said:

At least previous administrations had the decency of hiding all their corruption sparing us all the drama, not like this fatass who brags proudly about every corrupt thing he does.

This can be framed as a good thing, such rampant corruption will self-destruct quicker and is clear for everyone to see and learn from. What we need to exorcise devilry in ourselves and people around us is to get it all out in the open and gradually heal through awareness; sweeping it under the rug turns out to be counter-productive. Not unlike a brain tumor. After all, the real test of love is to see the full extent of the ugliness of humanity and still love that, as it is Truth. 

I also don't check the news much anymore, but the toxicity doesn't disturb me, it's just that the content is all the same; you can skim a digest once a week or even month and not miss anything significant. For some positive contrast, there's a YT channel that does summaries of the good things happening in the world.

[Sandroew]

3 hours ago, LoneWonderer said:

What a $**t show. I've been thinking past few days to quit the news for good because all this constant nonstop devilry running rampant really get you down, makes you lose hope in humanity. 🫤

Since Trump has come to office it's been non stop in your face all the time. At least previous administrations had the decency of hiding all their corruption sparing us all the drama, not like this fatass who brags proudly about every corrupt thing he does.

Note to self: I really must quit the news.

I entertain politics because i think the valid approach to raise global consciousness is raising the ground level. Consciousness work for the biggest part of the population is out of reach. Most people on earth is stuck caring about their survival. And the lucky few have no guidance and their mind is so out of sync with reality that they'll never get there on their own. I want to live in a world where people have time to do nothing. And reality is not so painful that they have to keep their mind occupied with bullshit. I think this is achievable and dumbfucks like Putin and Trump are in the way. 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

 

— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: Sources close to the White House confirm that Trump lost interest in backing opposition leader María Corina Machado as President of Venezuela, because she accepted her Nobel Peace Price instead of demanding it be given to Trump – Washington Post

[Husseinisdoingfine]

My hatred for Trump and AmeriKKKan Imperialism has actually soared, Thomas Mathew Crooks is an American hero.

 

[Sandroew]

 

[BlueOak]

Most Political leaders don't care about what we think should happen in regards to rivals or other countries.
If they have a strong base support of 30%, there is enough suppression and media control that they can do whatever they like toward their rivals.

America is moving into the Russian and Chinese model, where tbh they don't even need 30% support, but it helps to have a nationalist population from which to draw military personnel and internal paramilitary or state policing and suppression of the populace (ICE, or the Rosgvardiya in Russia, the People's Armed Police (PAP) in China etc)

The problem is people think the world behaves differently to how it now behaves. 
In the authoritarian system we are moving towards globally. This is the new reality. Your voices and opinions do not matter. To the point that any theatrics or clever politicial manouvering is no longer required for a leader to attack his rivals either.

Sorry to be blunt with everyone here, but i've had that for a long time being a socialist, and now its implemented over the wider population.
 

Edited Monday at 03:54 PM by BlueOak

[zazen]

Multiple factions have their reasons to approve of this move in Venezuela. For Trump who's commercially minded and thinks very simplistically from a lens of power and money it was an easy sell = take oil get rich lol. For neocon hawks like Rubio and Lindsey Graham its more ideological (anti-socialist, Monroe Doctrine, exceptionalism).  The financial and industrial (big oil) elite aren't thinking they've hit a jackpot of oil supply - largest oil reserves doesn't mean profitable oil because type of oil, cost of extraction, political cost etc all matter. It would cost time and 10s of billions to re-vamp the infrastructure - all in a revolutionary minded jurisdiction that's not secure. Those investments could just be taken and nationalized down the line.

What it's thought to provide US capital elites and the US empire more broadly is dollar dominance and system compliance. It protects (tries to) the platform their wealth relies on. The platform being US reserve currency and treasuries underpinning it - which is more essential than simply the product (oil). Apple cares more about the dominance of the platform (OS) than the apps (product) on it. The idea is to signal to the world that the US (OS) is still strong and that flirting with playing outside the system can have consequences. This can obviously and most likely will backfire.

The US flopped on the trade war with China, has struggled dealing with the Houthis in the Red Sea, hasn't managed to eradicate Hamas via its ally in Israel, and still has a defiant Iran after their little party trick hitting a mountain which they framed as victory. Russia despite being sanctioned is chugging along with trade and India hasn't bent the knee to follow suit with those sanctions either. Seems a show of force out of desperation was in order. 

It's not a full on regime change yet, but a regime adjustment by taking out the leader. The regime still stands and Trumps notion of running Venezuela from the US whilst warning the new head is basically saying ''your our puppet now and must follow orders. If not, then we'll come in with round 2 for a full regime op” - which he's also threatened. What happens next we'll have to see. If the people don't see any improvements in their living standard within a reasonable time they could revolt, including insurgency, which may happen regardless against US actions.

The issue is improvements takes time - especially in a petro-state which needs oil refinery investment and revenue + nation building. If the new head opens up Venezuela we could see a very similar parallel to Yeltsin in Russia that caused a shit show of asset stripping and privatization that caused in-equality etc and eventually gave rise to Putin who came in hard fisted against that neo-liberal shock therapy to stabilize things. Or we could just see US entanglement and Vietnam 2.0 which will seal the end of the empire.

Edited Monday at 08:45 PM by zazen

[LoneWonderer]

7 hours ago, LambdaDelta said:

This can be framed as a good thing, such rampant corruption will self-destruct quicker and is clear for everyone to see and learn from. What we need to exorcise devilry in ourselves and people around us is to get it all out in the open and gradually heal through awareness; sweeping it under the rug turns out to be counter-productive. Not unlike a brain tumor. After all, the real test of love is to see the full extent of the ugliness of humanity and still love that, as it is Truth. 

I also don't check the news much anymore, but the toxicity doesn't disturb me, it's just that the content is all the same; you can skim a digest once a week or even month and not miss anything significant. For some positive contrast, there's a YT channel that does summaries of the good things happening in the world.

Yeah, that's a good way to see it 👍

[Jodistrict]

If Greenland wants to fight for their independence, they need to be digging in now and preparing for a long occupation.  

 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

On 1/4/2026 at 7:39 AM, Sandroew said:

Seemingly a lot of people even from the left are defending Trump. Either from being literally brainwashed or defending their own self interest. Survival and all that. Bernie is on point.

 

[Sandroew]

Chávez about US imperialism.

One could argue that atleast back then all those actions were Cold War era anti-communist measures. (debatable at the least) Meanwhile the Orange Man keeps openly talking about that he just wants to exploit Venezuela for the oil.

Edited yesterday at 12:47 AM by Sandroew

[Husseinisdoingfine]

BREAKING NEWS: A COUP D’ÉTAT IS UNDERWAY IN VENEZUELA 🇻🇪 

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/26951

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/26952

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/26954

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/26955

 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

— 🇻🇪 UPDATE: The situation in Venezuela is over, there was no coup; someone launched a quadcopter and the entire security apparatus got paranoid and started shooting at it (and at eachother)

[zazen]

Late stage USSR and post-USSR Russia under US puppet Yeltsin (opening to neoliberalism shock therapy) are a parallel  to this.

“The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy stated by Leonid Brezhnev, asserting the Soviet Union's right to intervene militarily in any Warsaw Pact nation to preserve communist rule, justified by the idea that reforms in one socialist country threatened all. It justified the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia (Prague Spring) to crush liberal reforms, solidifying Moscow's control over its satellite states and reinforcing Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe.”

Replace Brezhnev doctrine with Donroe doctrine.

What’s possibly to come:

Funny seeing US empire clowns talk of how they’re gonna nation build and help the people benefit from oil revenues. Just like how corporate oligarchs re-invest into the US population and care so much.

Listen to Rubio at 10-12 min:

If the presence of other powers isn’t tolerated in their hemisphere why should China tolerate US in Japan, Phillipines etc. Same was said by Trump the Buffon about Greenland “lots of Russian and Chinese ships over there” no shit, Russia borders much of the artic.

The presence of something alone isn’t a “national security threat” - a militarised power projection presence is. Child logic is “dollars are everywhere bro, US is a global threat”. No, not by itself - coercion or the future threat of violence to use the Western financial financial system where the US and it’s allies have veto power via SWIFT sanctions is the threat - back stopped by the force of global naval policing and 700+ bases.

Globalisation naturally brings global presence -  that presence wants to be denied or made conditional to benefit US empire interests - with force or the threat of it. That presence (Russian, Chinese) wasn’t an existential national security threat (yet), it was a threat to imperial architecture.

It’s about the oil but also not in the way most think. It’s more about platform (system) dominance than the product (oil) itself. More money will be made through financialization of future claims to oil flow than ramping up production to max capacity - which will destroy big oil investments in Canada and US who require higher prices to profit from - thus are against flooding supply to market.

With Venezuelan resources folded into the system with political alignment - it can then be utilised. Just to show the power of financialization - yesterday €100 billion in market cap was added to US oil stocks - simply through signal, not supply.

Good listen from a oil guy:

 

Edited 21 hours ago by zazen

[Atb210201]

On 03/01/2026 at 7:42 PM, Beans said:

Trump has bombed seven countries 

without congressional approval

this is illegal 

watching the murder of innocent people like a television show

whats stopping him from murdering innocent Americans who oppose him?? 

Trump has never bombed civilians.

Show me if he has.

[Atb210201]

On 03/01/2026 at 7:42 PM, Beans said:

Trump has bombed seven countries 

without congressional approval

this is illegal 

watching the murder of innocent people like a television show

whats stopping him from murdering innocent Americans who oppose him?? 

Trump has never bombed civilians.

Show me if he has.

[UnbornTao]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/SHr7UgkrBU

[Rafael Thundercat]

Trump looks like a king in desperation. If there is strategic intelligence in his last moves againt Venezuela, Colômbia, Greenland, I may be Missing something. 

[Sandroew]

@Atb210201 AI is kind of the new google. Thats what i used to answer your request. But im pretty sure ye good ol googling would be able to do the same with just a little bit more effort. Im not sharing the answer here on purpose by the way. Because its a ridicoulus claim and because its off topic.

[Atb210201]

6 minutes ago, Sandroew said:

@Atb210201 AI is kind of the new google. Thats what i used to answer your request. But im pretty sure ye good ol googling would be able to do the same with just a little bit more effort. Im not sharing the answer here on purpose by the way. Because its a ridicoulus claim and because its off topic.

I'm just gonna assume you don't have any proof by the way you answered.