Where’s the millions of libs in the street protesting this?
Impressively enough, there are protests in lots of places! Lots of comrades are rallying people(even libs) around the world against this. However, we need more.
This just the USA:
This is from Norway: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10017922
If possible, please join a solidarity rally within your country and agitate against the blood thirst of the imperialist beast.
Wow, that is next level unhinged. Imagine claiming that Venezuelan land and oil rightfully belongs to usa and was stolen by the people of Venezuela and thinking people will buy that.
Imagine claiming that Venezuelan land and oil rightfully belongs to usa and was stolen by the people of Venezuela
I mean to be fair that’s exactly what white settler colonizers did during Manifest Destiny to claim 99% of America’s current land. “Remember the Alamo” = what are all these evil Mexicans doing here in… northern Mexico? One of the main reasons the founding fathers rebelled against Britain was to maintain the value of their land speculation investments in American Indian territory that Britain did not want white settlers to invade.
Americans literally illegally immigrated to northern mexico, bought up land and revolted when mexico tried to abolish slavery.
sadly people will indeed buy that
That’s the thing about Trump. For better or worse he’s saying the quiet thing out loud a lot of the time.
I would hope it is because he’s simply too stupid to do the usual rules-based international order of freedom and democracy incantations but I fear it is rather because the reaction has defeated any meaningful opposition so decisively that they no longer feel the need to pretend to be anything but bloodthirsty Nazis.
he’s also giving an address to the nation tomorrow which I already assumed was going to be a declaration of war, or at least announcing an invasion of Venezuela
This is an interesting post that I found on X. Hope you all like it:
Brief teaser:
What we are witnessing is not dominance. It is exposure. An exhausted empire reverting to ultimatums because persuasion no longer works, law no longer convinces, and fear no longer freezes the room. Blockades do not restore a failing order. They announce that order has already died. And when a power must threaten the world’s arteries to prove it still matters, the verdict is no longer approaching.
It has already been delivered.
spoiler
A “total and complete blockade” is not sanctions. It is not pressure. It is not rhetoric. Under international law, it is an act of war. When a U.S. president publicly declares a naval blockade by social media decree, boasting of armadas and asserting entitlement to another nation’s oil, minerals and land, this is not strength on display, it is madness, pure and unvarnished, masquerading as manifest authority.
Blockades are not metaphors. They are violence waiting for a trigger. They must be enforced. Enforcement means interception, boarding, seizure or gunfire. It means captains who hesitate, ships that refuse to stop, moments where a single miscalculation turns doctrine into disaster. History offers no comfort here, once a blockade is declared, a state either escalates or humiliates itself. There is no stable middle ground. Only collision.
This is gunboat diplomacy ripped from the age of empires and dragged, screaming, into a world that has outgrown it. Blockades are what powers reach for when persuasion fails, legitimacy rots, and law becomes an obstacle rather than a shield. They are not instruments of order. They are confessions — public admissions that the system being defended no longer functions.
And let’s strip away the theater, this is not about Venezuela. Venezuela is the stage, not the target. The target is precedent. If tankers can be seized, governments branded “terrorist” by decree, and economies threatened with strangulation absent mandate or law, then the message is unmistakable. Sovereignty inside the Western system is provisional. Property exists only until it is needed. Law applies, until it doesn’t.
Europe knows exactly where this road leads — because it helped pave it. By normalizing extra-jurisdictional asset freezes and sovereign confiscation, it surrendered the moral and legal ground it pretends to stand on. A continent that transformed financial piracy into policy now watches blockade language return, trapped by the precedents it set itself. This is not neutrality. It is self-entrapment. And history has never been gentle with those who abandon law first and plead for it later.
This is why the world is moving, not loudly, not ideologically, but decisively, away from Western finance, Western shipping lanes, Western courts, Western assurances. Not out of rebellion, but self-preservation. When contracts dissolve into confiscation and diplomacy collapses into maritime threats, the response is automatic: parallel trade same security structures, parallel systems. Multipolarity is not a dream. It is a survival reflex.
What we are witnessing is not dominance. It is exposure. An exhausted empire reverting to ultimatums because persuasion no longer works, law no longer convinces, and fear no longer freezes the room. Blockades do not restore a failing order. They announce that order has already died. And when a power must threaten the world’s arteries to prove it still matters, the verdict is no longer approaching.
It has already been delivered.
Source -> https://xcancel.com/islanderworld/status/2001138008578232523
This is gunboat diplomacy ripped from the age of empires and dragged, screaming, into a world that has outgrown it.
Gunboat diplomacy never went away, its perpetrators just used other justifications for the same thing. Fighting communism (Korea, Vietnam) and terrorism (Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen), claiming that countries are “dictatorships” and have to be liberated (Iraq, Libya, Cuba), using mercenary groups like the Contras (Nicaragua), having presidents do it and then meekly apologize (W. Bush, Obama), claiming that countries are developing nuclear weapons (Iraq, Iran) have all happened, and I consider it identical to gunboat diplomacy. The tactics are almost entirely identical (invasion, overthrow, installing dictatorships), and its causes are the same (resources to be delivered to Imperial countries).
There is however obvious evidence of these excuses being more and more flimsy, and history being rewritten. That is from the desparation of Capitalism in decay.
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I don’t think it is though. Also, if your objective is to distract the attention instead of engaging with the message of the text, please don’t.
It is of bad taste.
Actual presence of AI would be something that says a lot but has no actual ideas, because AI cannot understand and communicate actual ideas. I however do have some criticisms against small things in the text.
until you said that I didn’t even realize it, but now I can’t unsee it, emdashes and all
dawg the presence of em dashes is not an indication of AI
i have been using em dashes since before LLMs were a thing
who cares
I know this would end badly, but I so so so so want China to step up and just tell America “no.”
Send in their navy to escort Venezuelan ships. Tell the US to fuck off and just stand there menacingly. This shit is insane. It’s gotta fuckin stop. I’m so frustrated right now I don’t even have the fucking words. This is fucked
I’m so frustrated right now I don’t even have the fucking words. This is fucked
If you have the possibility, please join any solidarity rallies and agitate in your country! That’s one great way to channel the frustration and it also helps a lot to build powerful solidarity movements with our Venezuelan comrades.
They don’t even need to do that they can just declare a trade embargo on usa and any intermediaries that attempt to circumvent that ban. Its completely legal under international law and as the largest importer of Venezuelan oil is a reasonable response to being denied their right to trade.
From what I heard China is actually being paid for some ‘massive’ loans it gave to Venezuela with (at least some of) that oil, so the usa actually could just be stealing a Venezuelan payment to China, which might not have been the case with any of the thefts so far but will likely be happen if the thefts continue.
Hohoho boy they’re trying to do another Cuba/True Korea but Venezuela already has massive backing from the two most powerful socialist governments in the world. We’re getting to see what would have happened if Cuba and NK had already been solidly well established with backing from an equal power. So they can’t even do the murder millions of innocents and destroy infrastructure part without China just fucking our economy to the moon and back. Literally the best they can do to satiate the capitalist bloodlust is bomb fishermen off the cost and call them terrorists.
The Evil Empire is a shadow of its former self. Urrra!
However, Lipow also pointed out that “The oil market will be watching the Chinese reaction as they are the largest buyer of Venezuelan oil, benefiting from discounted prices and, they may be reluctant to observe USA sanctions, keeping Venezuelan oil flowing into the market.”
God help us.
Are they making their occassional confession that they know that Communist countries provide real assistance to each other without fear of treason in their periodic self-contradiction to their claim that Communist superpower have conflicts with other Socialist countries?
The first I think. My mind immediately jumped to potential darker implications:
Yes, this scenario is a possibility. I just hope it does not become reality.
Well at least I live close to a first strike target so I’ll be vaporized in the initial nuclear holocaust. 🤷♂️
No one is going to nuke each other over Venezuela. China is not going to directly confront the US over Venezuela either. The US bombed Iran, where China buys a lot of oil, and China did not militarily confront the US in any way. China cares about projecting power around the first and second island chains. Everything else is secondary.
China probably sees Venezuela as just a good trading partner, and as part of Russia/Brazil’s sphere of influence. Nicaragua under Sandinista rule only bothered to recognize the PRC in 2021.
China isn’t the source of concern here, I think.
Hmm, you edited your post since I replied. I think wherever volatile elements are involved, watchful caution is appropriate.
same… i was telling my partner we really should move away from here, sooner rather than later, but maybe its better to just get vaporized right away
I’m really sorry and ashamed. 😔🫂
Stalin was right about capital’s triumph over the Soviet experiment bringing in an era of blackest reaction the world over. If humanity were to survive, China will lead us toward a much brighter, equitable, sustainable and peaceful future.
For those behind me, I hope so.
Venezuela will win the fight.
Is the quoted article a satire of Trump? It is too honest to the nature of Pax Americana. If this report represent the true activities of Pax Americana, then it proves that Pax Americana had been intentionally causing hardship to all Venezuelans contrary to their claim that the economic sanction is only directed to Maduro’s administration. In the first place, the doctrine that a country of European diaspora can declare that a foreign government is illegitimate and illegally infringe in the sovereignty of that foreign country can create a toxic precedent for other countries to do the same to the US.
The Pax Americana supporters in Reddit continues their allegation that the US government only use sanction against the administrations of Chavez and Maduro. The quoted article in OP reveals that the US is deliberately robbing properties from all Venezuelans and causing economic hardship against all Venezuelans. I also want to question where is puppet Guaido who lacks support from the majority of Venezuelans. Did the US decided that Guaido is too incompetent? Guaido did cause engages in so much financial mismanagement, corruption, and hypocrisy that his ally in Colombian government were leaking Guaido’s corruption. The claim of drug trafficking had been ongoing without evidence. However, when had the allegation of kidnapping, human trafficking, and murder started?
They also claimed that the sanction only started when Maduro allegedly burn food aid to starving Venezuelan. However, an American news article confessed that the alleged destruction of the food aid were caused by Guaido’s supporters and that the alleged food aid were actually non-important medical supplies. The article alleged that the video of the destruction of the food aid were rewinding the time to create the illusion that Venezuelan soldiers were destroying the food aid.
Guido was teaching at some college (university) in Florida last I heard, but it’s been a long time.
Guaido and the Nobel Peace Prize winner should have been shut.
