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.
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
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.
sadly people will indeed buy that
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. 🤷♂️
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.
