Please include sources for any claims; baseless speculation is counterproductive. Remember that this is not a win for the US, just another outburst of a dying empire.
will Cuba be able to resist the oncoming US intervention? :(
Yes, they will.
Also, the US has its eyes elsewhere for now. It is more likely that the US will invade my country Mexico, Groenlandia or our Iranian comrades than Cuba.
Dawg, let’s be real: they’re trying to stick their fingers in as many pies as possible right now. There’s no way to tell who the ghouls in D.C. are planning to hit next.
Washington is crashing out over the Chinese Century and they’re making it everybody’s problem.
An executive from the US oil company Halliburton reminded US President Donald Trump that the reason the company abandoned its operations in Venezuela was the sanctions imposed on the South American country by the president himself in 2019 , during his first term in the White House, although “we intended to stay.”
Out of the horse mouth:
“As a company, we left under the sanctions in 2019. We intended to stay,” but “when the sanctions came into place, we were required to leave.”
Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2009961619166552064/vid/avc1/1280x714/KvymTBsqcsogqyHH.mp4
Source -> https://www.telesurtv.net/halliburton-trump-sancion-petroleo-venezuela/
Oh no! The estadounidenses are at risk of secuestro? That would be awful, for a state to just swoop in like that and te secuestra.
awww fuck here it comes
Nonononono, that’s never a good sign, fuck.
Went to protest at the US embassy in Brussels. Probably around 600-800 people there I guess. As far as I could tell we were the only party there. The rest was different orgs. Not even the Greens were there.
Also, the US embassy is funny. All the other embassies are just building but the US one is a fortress with spiky fences, cameras and armed guards.
The turnout was bigger than I expected really. Lots of communists around, which was nice.
I’m a little jealous. I managed to find only one person today who was willing to talk a little about Venezuela. He knew nothing about Venezuela but was at least slightly sympathetic. He was only willing to whisper a little about politics because everyone is afraid of being arrested. Protesting is banned and exactly zero people would risk saying or doing anything remotely disruptive. lemmygrad would choke to death on cope to read the newspapers here.
A lot of U.S. embassies are just intelligence command centers.
Let this be a lesson in the failure of democratic socialism. The US destroyed Salvador Allende’s Chile, and has now started to destroy Chavez’s Venezuela.
After revolution, arm yourself and kill all gusanos. Then try to get nukes.
Any serious movement should be applying this for survival
I believe its Cubas position that they will not take up nuclear armerment, with a doctors not bombs mentality, I could be wrong, or it could have changed though.
Thankfully it has worked.
Let’s hope it holds.
Developing military capabilities for protecting your country should be a top priority goal for any serious socialist project.
If anyone still thinks that the pro imperialist media is any truthful instead of straight up bullshit spewing machines:
Not even the single fact that this was a kidnapping is not allowed to be mentioned.
I fucking hate these people so much.
It’s called neutrality, sweaty, look it up
Using neutral language to describe a kidnapping is expressing support for the kidnappers by downplaying the reality of their actions, sweaty.
I thought the sarcasm was clear from using the meme verbatim
You’d be surprised how many people do it unironically.
Sorry about that.
The famously neutral BBC 🧐
I hope this is sarcasm!
Of course it is lmao
Phew…
Lots of protests around today. Good luck to everyone attending ✊🏼 stay safe.
Good lord the amount of Venezuelan Gusanos and Diasporas (especially those artists) are so Much on My Twitter FYP. Meanwhile Actual Venezuelans Inside the country are genuinly scared to shit whats about to go To Happened after. Man fuck Twitter venezuelan Gusanos and Artists.
Hope Venezuelan Comrades there Stand firm
The moderator of a Venezuelan community on Lemmy posted the most white supremacist shit I’ve seen and then when called out said not to talk down to them because they’re a real Venezuelan and no one else can know about the real story but people like them. Then they blocked me for being a Russian bot.
Never forget
kill a bunch of people, including civilians
Abducts Venezualan president
says vp is in control but you’re going to “run the place”
vp says no your not
refuses to elaborate?
leaves?
Ngl I miss when Bourgeois foreign policy makes sense. I mean I know that this obviously isn’t over, but what went wrong here? I feel like something went wrong on their end, but what would it be.
This is the usual Trump propaganda and “diplomacy” tactic. Build up to some explosive action that shocks the world, announce a complete and total achievement of their war goals prematurely and capitulation from the opposition, then continue negotiating the details quietly with the very much not defeated opposition for more limited war goals.
It serves as a way to disarm domestic opposition, as people will believe “it’s already over” and so that there’s nothing to be done and magnify and normalize the actions abroad with their media monopoly. Then the opponent has to catch up to them with their smaller media presence in the world stage and language barrier.
This has been a trend this whole presidency, the conflicts with Sheinbaum and Petro early on, tariffs on Brazil among others. People often act as though Trump is crazy and unpredictable, but he’s actually pretty repetitive in his methods.
Oh yeah same thing happened with bessents claim that China was going to remove export restrictions on critical minerals when in reality they tightened them. He straight up lied.
Lying to save face IMO.
China, Russia, Iran and (surprisingly) Israel seem to be the weak spots for this tactic. I’d say it’s hard to intimidate an enemy when they know you can’t actually follow through on your threats.
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Typical American arrogance led to a huge fuck up. This is pretty normal for us.
Ehhh, what’s more normal is to actually try? Like obviously Vietnam failed, but they tried [understatement i know]. Panama was arguably a success given what the goals were. This time…the goals are simultaneously super specific but also stupid vague
The US are either trying to stir the pot and get a civil war going, or they really cut a deal with Rodriguez and she’s just playing her part in consolidating power then selling off.
I’d rather believe the former, than the latter, considering that Rodriguez’s father was “disappeared” by a US puppet regime in Venezuela when she was younger.
Trump has exaggerated or outright lied about the outcome of virtually every military and diplomatic action taken by his administration, since he got inaugurated. He’s desperate for both a personal and a national win. Similarly to the Iranian bombing, he’s done a show of force and is using it to declare victory. He’s likely going to withdraw the fleet from Venezuela’s coast now, and will keep milking “all the beautiful things” he has planned for Venezuela, in the coming months. However, not much else is going to happen. Dissing Corina Machiado probably means he’s not interested in supporting a puppet regime, or he realizes that doing so would be extremely expensive and likely to fail. If the US uses further military force, then the situation will very likely blow up in unexpected ways. Unfortunately, that means that there’s not much hope for releasing Maduro (through diplomacy or war), and he will probably die in a US prison cell, unless China and Russia intervene.
We should be keeping a very close eye on how the Venezuelan government proceeds from now, as that will tell us whether Trump actually cut a deal or not.
Furthermore, we should also be keeping a close eye on what Russia and China will be doing about Venezuela. I find that their responses so far have been slow (to put it mildly) and disappointingly lukewarm. This is not uncharacteristic of them, but I still fear that they might have cut a deal with Trump, especially in exchange for Ukraine and Taiwan.
Although, the night before Maduro was kidnapped, he was meeting at the presidential palace with Chinese delegates, so I’m much less inclined to believe that China cut a deal with Trump, compared to Russia.
Can we have a moment to appreciate @rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml for keeping us updated in these panicking times. Thank you.
Glad that I could help!
Thank you for everything Comrade!Thanks for all the info Rainpizza
The US bombed hospital facilities in its attack on Venezuela
In a statement released this Sunday, the IVSS (Venezuelan Institute of Social Security) asserted that the US attack against Venezuela, which included the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, targeted “warehouses where supplies and equipment for kidney patients are stored.”
According to the statement, the attack targeted “goods intended for the protection of health” “of a vital nature” for patients, thus revealing the “terrorist nature of the United States Government”.
Remember to cite your sources, don’t just post screenshots or excerpts.
Honor and glory to the Cuban fighters that gave their lives to protect Maduro! 🫡
Victims of a new criminal act of aggression and state terrorism, perpetrated against the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela by the United States, 32 Cubans lost their lives in combat actions and after fierce resistance, who were carrying out missions representing the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior, at the request of counterpart bodies of the South American country.
Source -> http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2026/01/06/a-los-combatientes-caidos-honor-y-gloria/
Went to a protest in Amsterdam with a couple hundred protesters. Huge communist presence and one of the speakers even quoted Mao
