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The US Attacked my country... (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by NONE_dc@lemmy.world to c/actually_infuriating@lemmy.world

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I don't care about Maduro, as far as I'm concerned, they can shoot him if they want. What matters to me is walking through the streets of my city and seeing the faces of fear on my neighbors. The military patrolling to prevent looting due to panic. It's a collective hangover, a horrible one.

It's 2016 all over again. It's seeing despair entering the circulatory system of all Venezuelans, only now it's more sudden, and we are painfully aware of it.

This is far from improving, and we know it.

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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's something we've been discussing in my family. For us, it's a fact that Maduro was sold out, given the lack of resistance there was. What's more, the fact that they only took him and his wife and no one else from the Chavista leadership is like cutting off one head of a Hydra: it's useless if what you really want is to remove the Chavistas from power.

Something fishy (and probably anticlimactic) is happening.

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

My guess (as just some boring ol American) is that the US government has a belief - which may be realistic, or may be baseless - that they can remove Maduro and compromise whoever rises to power next into allowing US profiteering on Venezuelan natural resources.

The fact that they were able to just roll in and kidnap him with minimal resistance tells me that it's more likely to be realistic than baseless.

I don't think they would allow themselves to walk away with nothing, so if Venezuela does resist, I think the siege will continue. This is government, and particularly this administration, is based in fragile masculinity. They would rather kill innocent people than appear weak. Otherwise Pete Hegseth might not feel hot when he flexes in the mirror in the morning.

Gunboat diplomacy. Old American shit. Empire shit. We broke our "international law, defenders of democracy" propaganda machine by stretching it too far trying to defend the US-Israel holocaust in Palestine. Naked aggression is all that America has left - which may not feel like a weakening, but it is.