twitter.com
twitter.com
Live Streams active as of right now:
Venezuelan Coup Thread
Jordan Ortiz
Other urls found in this thread:
local10.com
ucsusa.org
rt.com
bloomberg.com
rt.com
twitter.com
Adam Howard
Running people over with trucks is okay, when we do it.
Dylan Rivera
Is that maduro or porky forces
Luke Flores
Maduro's, obviously. It's a National Guard truck near Altamira.
Parker Ward
Fingers crossed this ends the same way the last one did assuming it's not being blown massively out of proportion to by foreign porky media to begin with
Lucas Johnson
The whole thing is being staged by porky to get at their oil.
Jeremiah Collins
wew lad
Austin Carter
It's necessary, fuck imperialists.
Jacob White
...
Jaxson Cruz
Weak adherence to socialist principles breeds weakness to capitalism. Maduro is only half the problem, Chavez created all of this by building an exclusively oil based economy and NOT building a domestic worker-operated food chain out of coops. End result was when the US decided it wanted to play rough, people started starving as wages went down and gov't price floors stopped farmers from producing food - without any backup material conditions deteriorated and gave entry to restorationists. This entire situation could have been avoided with better planning, America's real soft power is in it's (heavily subsidized) food production because starving people will never ever reject free food. Failure to manage this, as America itself has, leads to failure in general.
Anyway, for a comparative analysis look at Iran. For as much of a fascist, capitalist and imperialist the Shah was he took his oil money and bought a nuclear power plant and aqueducts creating an Iranian food supply indepedent of global markets and thus American imperialism. His NPP is also the only reason why America hasn't managed to coup the fascist theocracy that replaced him, because they're afraid of the fuel proliferating elsewhere (Pakistan) and being used by terrorists.
It always, always, always, always, always, always, ALWAYS, boils down to the means of production. VZ doesn't have that due to the state not building it, therefore it'll be a capitalist state again. ALL SOCIALISM REQUIRES SEIZING OR BUILDING THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION.
Lincoln Barnes
Extremely based.
Ayden Powell
Yeah, I don't think anybody denies he wasn't up to the task of sustainably fixing Venezuela's economy, nor has Maduro proven any better.
But right now, what matters is ensuring we don't end up with a new Pinochet, or with Venezuela ensconced in the flames of war.
William Smith
Chavez's task was building a functioning democracy, but this was wrecked within three years by PDVSA and porky. Chavez's focus on bringing the renegade bourgeois press and PDVSA under control was a massive undertaking, and should be celebrated by the left.
Brandon Gonzalez
It's too late for that. If people aren't eating they're fighting because America will give them free burgers. Winning ground battles is only 10% of Maduro's problem, he has to feed people to at least get them off the street. Otherwise they will keep coming and loyalist security forces will either demand outright tribute for gunning them down or preform a palace coup and begin working with Russia to feed them under a new explicitly fascist regime.
There's no winners here, America is using this as preparation for Iran and Russia is using this as preparation for Cuba. Things will only get more violent and more openly capitalist as it becomes a proxy war between two imperialist systems.
Jackson Phillips
Hey CIA, whatcha doin?
Aiden Watson
Chavez, with all his cunning w/r/t recognizing the necessity of a regional trade bloc, failed to establish an independent bank to store assets in safely. Further, there was no chance to nationalize food production under Chavez without first reigning in the bourgeois press, which was protested by students and then rejected in a national referendum.
Jeremiah Ward
They don't have anywhere near enough support from the military on their side. The point of this is to manufacture an apparent crisis in order to justify American air strikes.
Dominic Wilson
That's true, but you can't go 80% of the way on socialism and expect it to work. Even the USSR realized this and realized the massive power America's corn lobby was/is in the 1960s, although attempts to fix it were mediocre and came too late (and were dragged down by a war in Afghanistan then Chernobyl).
For what it's worth China made the same mistake too: instead of plowing their wealth into becoming agriculturally self-sufficient they put it into banking, speculation and missiles. They are still a net food importer as a result, which is where most of the US's leverage against them exists because they can't easily retaliate against tariffs without really fucking up their food production.
Julian Clark
The US is far, far too arrogant in its assumption that Colombia will act as a US military proxy.
William Diaz
Colombia will submit to the US, why do you think this won't happen puzzles me.
Samuel Moore
The Colombian right is the weakest its been since 1992, and the Colombian military does not have the personnel, let alone strength, to invade another country. This is a country that will go left within a decade; a military misadventure would accelerate the process.
Nathaniel Morgan
Guaido supporters seen with US-made civilian firearms and optics. Yeah, this is definitely CIA shit.
Brody Anderson
I don't know shit about guns so what are the makes/brands?
Nathan Davis
Hudson Evans
It's an AR-57 (Pronounced Five-seveN for operators) and a trijicon srs sight. The rifle itself is a civilian-only model. No military uses them and they do not exist outside of the US domestic market.
Kayden Clark
Remember Venezuelans haven't grown their own food since the 1950s
The former would've eliminated the strict need for the latter. If Chavez had been able to keep the pink tide flowing hard enough to lap against burgerstan's shores with a 2006 victory for AMLO in Mexico, as well as keeping other regional powers such as Brazil headed the proper way, the continent easily would've been self-secure. Especially if instead of shortsighted welfare programs, a huge industrialization drive had been done, and a practical currency control regime more like pre-2009 China's.
Christian Evans
I hope it will be over quickly and with minimal victims.
Alexander Moore
UN Ambassador from Venezuela has said it's over and that the government won.
Wyatt Smith
???
Julian Gutierrez
It's over, Guido failed. I'd say the real coup is the frens we made along the way, but Gaydo pissed everyone off and has no friends.
Mason Hill
I can't find this on any news sites other than teleSUR.
Camden Bell
Bentley Roberts
and he clearly failed
Julian Martinez
yawn
Juan Reyes
Josiah Parker
...
Chase Miller
They are probably referring to Russia/China
Dominic Diaz
The police killing unarmed black people is okay, when we do it.
Isaiah Sullivan
Based
William Powell
That's a false-flag by anti-Maduro forces. There's a video of them stealing the armoured vehicle prior to the running over of pedestrians.
Julian Gomez
That's a different vehicle.
Justin Kelly
No, it is the Bolivarian National Guard. You are just deluding yourself so that you don't feel bad when you go sleep.
Isaac Gray
Nobody has more blood on their hands than you.
Thomas Hernandez
I am not an imperialist pal. Fuck Guaido and Lopez. Stop presuming things just to fit your world view. I don't have to be a glow-in-the-dark to point out that killing unarmed black people and crushing people with trucks is objectively a bad thing. I guess it doesn't even matter anyway because every instance of police brutality in Venezuela was a CIA false-flag crisis actor chemtrail controlled demolition fake plot to discredit Maduro, it must be bliss to see things your way.
Noah Flores
venezuela is not socialist
Carson Stewart
Would this count as revolutionary terror?
Ryder Baker
epic
David Sanchez
Whould you describe the cheka as something other that police?
Eli Garcia
...
Nathaniel Reyes
There better not be ANY imperialist posters in this thread.
I have this thread on screen in the oval office right now and if Mr. Trump sees ONE comment arguing against Maduro he WILL order airstrikes and begin sending in ground troops.
You all better be on your BEST behavior, this is a matter of life and death.
Nathan Harris
...
James Collins
Like what? A phone video of the National Guard crushing people with trucks?
Not everything you so happen to disagree with is imperialist propaganda filmed on a sound-stage by Stanley Kubrick.
Ayden Nguyen
Now you are just being retarded on purpose.
Dominic Miller
Maduro's guys have over a dozen of those vehicles so what rules out the possibility that it was them who did it?
Joshua Scott
fuck off tankuck
Aiden Brooks
Just another chicken coop.
Guaido has no real power, but media does a good job overblowing it.
Maduro trying to leave the country was probably an ad libbed lie by Pompeo he made out of frustration. No one's gonna check on that.
Levi Hall
nice spooks
David Flores
Why is this board such a shithole? the soviets were socialists.
Justin Perez
Yeah, just like unca' Adolf
Michael Howard
Holy fuck, are you literally implying the soviets were as socialist as the nazis claimed to be?
Anarkiddie, that's just how states work.
Jacob Richardson
vs.
and in both cases
Not really seeing the difference here
Henry Torres
So was Tony Blair.
Michael Cox
Is the coup over?
Matthew Flores
Yes, socialism won, like the bolsheviks in the russian revolution.
Kayden Young
But the Bolshevik coup was successful!
Cooper Peterson
You didn't see the news today? Bolton came out and blamed Cuba for making Venezuela starve by "propping" up Maduro. This 100% leads to Cuba, because Bolton wants to settle the Pentagon's old beef with them and he wants to do it violently because he knows if America acts first the rest of the world (notably Russia) won't be able to act fast enough to stop us. The entire country could be outright annexed by the US in about a month, so long as Russian ships are kept out.
This is exactly why the ABMT had to be killed under W and why the INFT had to be killed under Trump: both allow for a US ABM system to be setup in the Gulf Coast, covered by Intermediate-range nukes to prevent any Russian ships in the area from making moves the US doesn't like. It's no surprise that Bolton of course worked for W and is the reason both happened. This is Russia's primary concern because the exact same circumstances apply to them in regards to Crimea.
However, that's still not Bolton's immediate concern which remains the mideast. With the imminent US pullout of Afghanistan/collapse of Afghanistan's US-backed government, the US gets one step closer to blaming Iran for everything bad in the mideast (including Pakistan's attacks on India) and moving towards a confrontation there. Airstrikes are the most obvious option since that's what Bolton did with Israel onto Assad's test reactor in the 00s, however in this case if they bomb Iran's NPP it could potentially cause a major catastrophe.
Justin Watson
So then America has another coup in Columbia and they go full fash. Nevermind the obvious implications with FARC, Bolton will just go full retard and bomb them and let the bodies pile up in the streets until he gets his way.
Ultimately that's what this boils down to, the lack of imagination in America's political class means death and destruction worldwide. Bolton will fuck up Columbia in the exact same way he and his predecessors fucked up Afghanistan: by killing tons of civilians and making everyone mad at the US, instigating something much worse than communists (the Taliban in Afgh's case, perhaps ethnonationalists in Columbia's).
Brandon Cooper
Andrew Myers
But Venezuela is not starving, Cuba is sending doctors and supplies. Maduro is democratically elected and Russia is an ally.
Russia forcing the US to capitulate on Iran would be good for everyone except US oil. Russia/USSR have never wanted to nuke American civilians they wanted to be treated fairly. I don't see it as Venezuela being a stepping stone but Cuba and Venezuela allying with the strongest opposition to US hegemony. Its in Cuba's interest to have Russian support and their continued experiment provides contrast for western leftists to make their own decisions. Putin can be a shitter and Russian geopolitical interests can still be good. China will be there to check Russian corporate expansion. Let them fuck up NATO, finish the belt road, build us a nice shiny new means of production for us to seize.
ABM is a meme but so is MAD, memes are powerful psychological warfare.
Gabriel Price
Joshua Powell
Fucking based.
Anthony King
You're describing the Venezuelan economy as it's been since 1909.
Jason Smith
The 2006 election was won by AMLO; the Mexican Supreme Court and Bush's cronies in the Fox government stole it.
Logan Ward
Russian geopolitics objectively aligns with leftism at this point, of course not out of the goodness of their heart, but because of their own monopolic interests.
Jaxson Martinez
John Morales
So, is there any chance of this amounting to a hill of beans in the near future? Looks finished to me.
Absolutely agreed. There should've been another revolution, it probably wouldn't have even caused as much death and mayhem as the cartel wars from Calderón's retarded Operation Michoacán.
Jackson Sanchez
Iran has become a bigger priority (Americans need their fuel station Saudi Arabia to maintain their global presence and Iran can lock down the Horn of Hormuz, everyone is basically waiting for the US to stage a Tonkin/USS Maine incident)
Unlike what Americans and the coroporate press claims, Guaido is NOT supported by the people. He is a literally who, who got his position through rotation. This is why they constantly spam the military to defect. It's their only way to win, but unlike in Honduras, where they tested it out, the military refuses. And trying to get Columbia and Brazil to invade is not working out. They may be lead by right-wing and in case of Brazil, openly fascist nutjobs, but they ain't stupid enough to believe their own propaganda.
Sitting on an angry chair
Angry walls that steal the air
Stomach hurts and I don't care
Christopher Green
...
Connor Williams
PDVSA, as it has been throughout the decay of the 4th Republic and through the entirety of the 5th Republic, is the wildcard. Guiado just looted some funds to pay some illegal debt that PDVSA owed, and foreign creditors are getting ready to seize Citgo/PDVSA assets.
bloomberg.com
So basically, you have Maduro inflating the new Bolivars and Petro to pay illegal debts, and you have a parallel government looting the current real government to pay illegal debts simultaneously. Foreign finance is giving Venezuela two options: overthrow Maduro or lose PDVSA. It's crunch time.
Aaron Sullivan
Levi Cox
RiP Venezuelans