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?
Biden successfully deposed of Pakistan’s elected leader lol.
Source?
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.
I asked for a source or evidence. You provided a statement made by Imran Khan himself. A statement by a politician claiming that the US backed a coup in Pakistan is not evidence.
Edit: Why are people downvoting? Do you guys take politicians’ statements as fact now? What is your bar for evidence?
Leaked cable:
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/
IK being charged by attempting to disclose the secret cable:
Wow. So i read the full transcript. A few points.
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We don’t know where this document originated and the intercept has not authenticated it (they at least claim as much)
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Nothing Lu said is out of line. Which part do you take umbrage with? Khan is definitely putting his spin on this.
It’s pretty much been confirmed because Imran Khan released parts of the message that match the version the intercept received much later, of which I already pointed out he was charged with breaking the state secrets law.
Lu was very set on wanting Imran Khan gone via the NCV. This cable wasn’t meant to negotiate anything with Imran Khan or even tell him to rectify his stance on Ukraine. He said clearly that ties with Washington deteriorated and would only be restored if IK was removed.
More importantly, the cable was directed towards the Pakistan army who has the ultimate power in Pakistan (and incidentally has been bribed several times before). They did as they were asked and helped the NCV succeed by helping the opposition bribe and coerce party members to swap sides overnight. Then, they swiftly arrested IK, banned PTI as a political party, tortured and killed their party members, assassinated some journalists, shutdown the internet, banned Twitter, and called it a day.
It’s nothing new for the USA or even Pakistan, it’s just that this was probably the first grassroots populist party in Pakistan to ever get a chance at running the country and it lasted all but 5 seconds because that invovled the idea of foreign sovereignty which is something the USA doesn’t like.
They can and will use whatever means necessary to keep their leverage in the global geopolitical scene.
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Really, someone physically in the space with direct experience of the event in question is not evidence? It’s because he’s brown and worships a god from the wrong part of the world, isn’t it?
The downvotes are because of your petulant whining.
Asking for evidence is “whining”. Gotcha.
No, no, the whining is the whining.
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.
Unlike our glorious US empire where the elections are definitely totally legit (don’t ask why Trump won despite getting less votes)
No liberal “democracies” are democratic in the first place on account of being capitalist dictatorships
Remember when gore won the election and then Bush became president? Or when Hilary got more votes and then trump became president?
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
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.
Wow. What an exceptional piece of journalism from Alexandra Zoe and the People’s Dispatch! Not a single source: just an opinion piece. But thank you Alexandra for your unbiased insight. What an incredible claim that there might be corruption in Venezuelas electoral process! Clearly an indication of the American Colonial western imperialism expansionist policy. Did I get all the buzzwords right? This is what stands for journalism nowadays?
par for the course to be expected standard of news on “world news” @ lemmy.ml
