Here we go again. Let’s tamper with other countries just enough to create instability, then scratch your heads a decade later when their population is escaping to your border. Rinse, repeat, Insanity.
The USA under Trump tried to depose the Venezuelan leader only 5 years ago or so. Speaking of Trump, a large portion of the USA is currently striving to elect someone who tried to overthrow democracy in their own nation. Electoral scrutiny is all well and good, but is the USA really the right arbitrator given their domestic election problems and history of interfering in Central/South America? What do Venezuelans think about US involvement?
Imran Khan was coup’d in 2022 for his independent foreign policies and replaced with a pro-US puppet (who sent weapons to Ukraine and bombed Iran), despite Imran being highly popular in Pakistan.
He won this year’s election from jail despite the whole election being completely filled with vote-rigging. It’s not quite clear where things are gonna go from here.
Then Russia interferes with US election. It’s election interference all the way down.
Except it stops at countries like Russia where the complete election is fake.
Russia had no effect on US elections. Please update your understanding, it’s years old now. The Mueller report was clear on this point - Russia’s connections were far deeper and more effective (in both directions) with the Democrats than the Republicans
The point you’re trying to make here isn’t very clear.
Are you saying:
- That Russia didn’t try to interfere with the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections?
- Or are you saying that Russia did try to interfere, but they were incompetent and couldn’t actually do it?
- Or are you saying the Muller report clearly stated that there is a deep connection between Democrats and Russia, and only a much weaker connection between Russia and Republicans?
- Something else entirely or some combination of all of these?
Guaido’s term expired already?
Evergreen headline.
internationalism, anti-imperialism, and the empowerment of all people as political subjects with rights and responsibilities
That’s really rich when your soldiers are massed near Essequibo along a border with a country less than half your size.
Like the Malvinas were colonized from Argentina by the UK for its resources and to put mililtary there, this region was annexed from Venezuela by the british-ruled Guyana for similar reasons.
Guyana’s current government is a US puppet regime that’s given megacorps like Exxon Mobil full access to its oil (which is also claiming oil reserves in Venezuela’s maritime borders through Essequibo), and is planning to place US military in Essequibo to aid in their trying to overthrow Venezuela. It makes sense to take measures to prevent this.
I honestly doubt they’ll go and actually annex Essequibo back, but it’s completely reasonable to at least place troops on the border to discourage US military from coming into the region.
Yeah, US troops were not there first. And I know it goes against the grain a little bit, but not everyone that works with the US is some puppet of our evil empire or something.
Some people just choose to do business with our companies of their own free will, as outlandish as that may sound.
edit: Oh, and I had to look it up, but they’ve been their current size and shape for 200 years now. I don’t see how the Spanish colony of Venezuela has any more right than the British colony of Guiana.
the Malvinas were colonized for resources
What resources do the Falklands have exactly? Fucking fish?
It was a convenient and well situated naval base historically, and now is perfectly able to declare independence if the population so wishes -the falklands just, shockingly, overall benefit from being a part of a larger and richer national entity.
Essequibo was disputed in colonial times, with the dispute being settled by an international tribunal. First it was about gold, now it’s about oil.
What resources do the Falklands have
Oil; same as Essequibo, hence my comment relating the two. You can look things up you know?
naval base historically
“Historically”? Lmao it has br*tish naval bases in it right now. Same thing the US wants to do with Essequibo.
international tribunal
Funny way to say imperialist colonizers. Now the difference is that the de facto leader of the imperial core is the US instead of the UK, and the former is interfering here now instead.
