I agree somewhat. It’s hard because his tweets make some claims that are either editorial or unsourced and I have to dig further. And I know that my interlocutors won’t put in that much effort.
Yes, it shows the video with the watermark, but that’s not enough to establish the fact of what the video is of
I mean, I really appreciate what The Grayzone is trying to do…
But Max Blumenthal, the editor of The Grayzone, is one of the authors of this piece. And he writes many paragraphs that are followed by “sources”, which are actually just Tweets by… Max Blumenthal.
That is not a good look.
The JPost article about Mossad… gold.
The tracing of the NGOs… gold.
But I actually can’t share this with anyone because the editor approved himself citing himself…
I don’t know if I would go so far as to say this is a lose-lose for the empire. Except that everything is lose-lose in a long enough time horizon.
First off, the ability to test systems and tactics against Venezuela’s defenses was valuable in its own right. Made more valuable by the fact that many of those systems are from larger adversaries of the US. That provides lots of valuable intelligence.
Second, the shock and awe factor is very valuable. A public execution of Maduro is definitely in the cards and doing so would ramp up the shock and awe. It will cause lots of reactions, lots of movement. A lot of that movement will be opportunity for the US to act again. Get one more shock and awe event out of that, and it would be very valuable.
Third, it shakes the relationship tree and reveals the ride-or-die allies versus the mere sycophants. It tightens the circle, it creates bonds of allegiance, and it allows the empire to do more terrible things faster.
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.
That could be the point. If things get ugly on the ground in Venezuela it just gives the US further context for escalation after escalation
I absolutely wouldn’t put it past this administration to Livestream a public hanging
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I wish liberals were capable of seeing the actual complexities of the world instead of thinking every single goddamned thing is actually explainable by one thing ever.
So that’s how narco traffickers can defend themselves - carry oil on their boats.
Geopolitics understander, right here
Man, you are just itching for nuclear war aren’t you? You really want a nuclear-armed transnational force with zero democratic accountability to go and fight another nuclear armed power that is currently fighting explicitly to prevent that nuclear-armed transnational force from expanding its control of the region? That is literally nuclear escalation. You gotta get out of the death cult you’re in.
$100M is chump change at this scale
What a strange world you inhabit, where Russia ending war with a strike taking out a carrier group could somehow both end war before it starts and also somehow make Venezuela into a Russian victim by making them dependent.
Like, how does any of that mechanically work?
Yeah, that’s not what’s happening
Well, except for Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Libya.
More like a reconquista than a colonization
Reactionary forces are the capitalists, the petit bourgeois, the compradors, and the privileged.
People who accuse Marxists of being tankies are not calling anyone out on anyone’s shit. They are moralizing.
It’s 17th in population globally, putting it in the 80th percentile of countries.
Russia invaded Ukraine essentially on the same legal premise that was used by NATO and the US to carpet bomb Yugoslavia.
Murdering civilians is what war is all about. The Israelis are killing far and away more civilians and the globalists aren’t opposing Israel. The US refuses to even keep track of civilians killed for the most part.
So no it’s not either of those.
Also, the antagonism against Russia started many years before they launched the SMO. So it’s not actually the war that created the animosity.
Try again.
Just think about the alternative. Protestors are marching demanding a change to their government, so the government chooses to open fire on them in the hopes to scare the protests into submission. This guy gets on television and then tries to lie about really specific details about a nonexistent operation to find nonexistent people doing things that no one is doing so that he can convince the rest of the population that the protestors are actually foreign agents.
Meanwhile, Mossad tweets that they’re on the ground in Iran next to protestors. Mossad was discovered operating entire war capabilities inside Iranian territory, even in populated areas, while they commites war crimes by killing specific targeted civilians. These are known facts.
I dunno. It’s hard to imagine that the Iranian regime would just be lying about things like this at the same time Israeli military intelligence is claiming that they’re doing things to attack Iran.