Venezuela: Armed Supporters Of US-Proclaimed ‘President’ Launch Attempt To Overthrow Maduro Government (Photos, Videos)

What’s an SJW?

Social Justice warrior

Thanks.

Dogwhistle for “someone I don’t agree with who might be centrist or progressive”

social justice warrior (american left winger)

american left winger, very funny, I thought they had all been shot. Hitler was a left winger to Americans.

Hitler was a left winger period

There is no growth in the US economy, it’s all smoke and mirrors. But I forgot, more debt is growth in America..

No “president” has anything to do with “the economy”. The counterfeiters – bankers – control the paper that government guns turn into “money” and they have full power to make or break “the economy”. Capitalism – free trade with no government regulation or taxation – has never existed except for short periods on the American frontier. It’s never long before bureaucrats push in and start robbing productive people.

you seem to be challenged in many ways kid. the war against venezuela did not started yesterday from the globalists learn to put the dots together and use what ever grey matter you have instead of parroting. It is obvious you are a brainwashed western media person at least the base of your arguments is what they show.

Unfortunately Venezuela and many other neo colonial nations have no industry to absorb displaced rural, which is why the cities turn into hell holes and things don’t improve. Plus in many European and N American nations the rural land was bought up by…Europeans and N Americans, instead of shifting the entire ag economy into export mode they continued to provide for domestic needs, largely because the urban worker was a viable market.

Venezuela oil industries were already “nationalized” prior to Chavez presidency, but structured under deals that still had most of the dough leaving the country and into hands of foreign corporations – the worst of both worlds. Venezuela has a lot of problems, as do many C and S American countries after a century + of US imperialism (not used lightly). Their economies don’t work for the people, and that includes places like Colombia and Chile, bastions of neoliberal hocus pocus.

No one was suggesting we invade Colombia or declare their economic model a disaster when Venezuela was home to millions of displaced Colombians. To the contrary, the displaced Colombians were largely indigenous kicked off their lands by R Wing paras, hired by mutinational landowners and working with the R Wing Govt. Nearly 20% of the population at one point – a success story by US standards.

Thing is, and you’re absolutely right in that regard, if the wealth of Venezuela’s oil had been distributed equally before Chavez came to power, then Chavez would not have come to power. Tucker Carlson once said that populism is what happens when elites ignore their own people. In the West that caused the rise of Trump, the yellow vests and all sorts of Eurosceptic and other assorted populist parties. In Venezuela it caused Chavez.

That’s where my agreement ends though as I don’t think that the majority of Venezuelans are currently better off still then before Chavez. The average Venezuelan has dropped off 13 pounds in weight, the shops are empty, the hospitals are empty, inflation is through the roof and Caracas is the murder capital of the world. These are not signs of a country doing well.

I would agree they are not doing well, so saying they are “better off” maybe “less badly off” is more accurate. Right up to 2017 Venezuela scored better on quality of life indices than many other C and S American countries, including number of calories consumed on average. But for the sanctions warfare, life would still not be pleasant but better for most than life in Colombia, Brazil, or Honduras.

Meanwhile Colombia with one of the highest wealth disparities on the planet has experienced a massive uptick in killings and disappearances that will soon enough reignite their civil war, and Honduras still has a higher murder rate overall than Venezuela despite (or maybe helped by) heavy US military presence. Neither of these countries would last half as long under the same type of economic warfare.

Not that I’m a fan of Maduro or Chavez, but folks should be allowed to make their own mistakes and there is no doubt both of these men came to power and hold office via democratic processes. Contrast that to (again) Colombia and Honduras where opposition party members and assorted civil advocates are routinely murdered by paras in numbers that would shock the conscience of most Americans if it was widely reported/understood.

Gaddafi wasn’t a hard case, he was a great negotiator, he got all the various interests to cooperate, and turned Libya into the richest country in Africa.

Hussein was an American puppet dictator that had outlived his usefulness. If he had been a hard case, he wouldn’t have destroyed all his chemical weapons, and could have killed tens of thousands of American troops. Would Bush have gotten a second term with 10,000 dead soldiers?

It’s gonna be much harder to get an amount of mercenaries capable of doing some harm than was in Syria or Yemen. There’s no country in complete poverty around except Haiti, maybe the biggest cannon foder reservoir in the region but good thing is, it has a population of only 7 million. Then for quality mercenaries there are good chances to get a few from Colombia, Brazil and central America maybe. The way I think would be the best to get an army of mercenaries is intalling a huge network of drug trafficking through Venezuela, but in order to do that you have to seize big parts of the country first, at least in the lesser-populated, jungle-dominated south

Yes Arabs have a long history of fighting amongst themselves, Latin Americans are much more peaceful. Also the long history of America oppressing Latin American countries means the US has few friends south of the border.