That’s the thing that irks me, it has all the people that the run-of-the-mill USian “moderate” agrees is bad, and none of the actual political reasons why those actors act like they do. Are we supposed to believe the Trump admin supports Israel because of Epstein? And Putin?? Seems too Great Man-ish to me. Also very convenient for (actual) anti-Semites to write it off, but that’s a tangential point.
Honestly, this one leak seems to tie things up too neatly. Suspiciously neatly, specially if you have “problematic” preconceptions. Like, Trump is compromised by an ex-Mossad agent, who’s also the world sex-traficking kingpin, through Trump’s Jewish son-in-law, and it all ties back up to a Russia-based organisation led by a Putin advisor? It fits too perfectly into the “Trump is an anomaly” narrative. I’d be happy to be proven wrong, but I don’t trust this one.
The law name, because gringo outlets are allergic to naming things. Seems to be legalising and making it easier for subcontractors to operate and develop Venezuelan oil fields. However the oil is still “property” of the state company, to be subcontracted.
I wouldn’t say it “throws open” the oil sector, but it looks just like the general trend in Latin America to slowly gut nationalised companies through ever growing subcontracting, which was already a thing anyway. Sucks, but actually not surprising at all. That’s been the trend in Venezuela for a while, and in fact this bill has been in the works since 2021.
Also small nitpick but the framing on this article makes it seem like PSUV wanted to not export the oil, for some reason reason. They actually want to do it, and it was a ridiculously large portion of their economy and foreign policy, but sanctions and embargo made it more difficult both to export their oil (crude or refined) and develop new oil fields. Idk, just sounds weird when people like Trump talk about “making the oil flow” when they’re personally responsible for it not flowing.
Doesn’t seem very reliable given the sheer amount of “sources say” but no named source corroboration. And any ambitious high ranking PSUV cadre would be chomping at the bit to denounce some traitors publicly if that were the case. I think it’s more likely the Guardian is just using the fact that Americans just learned a third Venezuelan name after Chavez and Maduro.
Remember folks: this isn’t a threat to the Canadian citizenry. It’s a threat to the Canadian bourgeoisie, specially the extractive sector. US denizens paying higher prices also doesn’t matter, this is all about pressuring the Canadian ruling class that’s deeply dependent on exporting to the US in the short term. This is also why US corporations that operate in the target country usually get exemptions.
I have been avoiding saying much of my opinions here lately because I thought there was a “no violence” rule, but there isn’t.
From now on, all ICE officers should be considered enemy combatants and shot on sight. There can be no dialogue, not even blocking or shoving. Only language they’ll understand is a couple bullets to the chest. You don’t negotiate with armed invaders.
How do you know a Russian is lying? Their mouth moves
Just read your own words. I’ve got nothing else to add. If you can’t see the issue here, you’re beyond hope.
You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.
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Can’t really tell from the footage which one shot first, but it’s impressive how easily startled these supposedly trained officers are. A single gunshot sound (almost certainly from one of their guns) was enough to make them all panic and shoot a downed guy half a dozen times.
On the one hand it’s good that they’re afraid, on the other hand fearful men with guns do shit like this. Hopefully they die by the bullet as they lived by the bullet.
Edit: on closer inspection I think the short green one shot the first shot out of frame, maybe got startled from the sound and dropped the gun? They’re clearly not holding a gun when they run around.
Edit 2: turns out the guy was had a gun on him, apparently in the back of his pants. Looking at other angles of the footage, it was holstered (both hands clearly on the floor), then Grey goes in and clumsily picks up the gun. Right after that Black Balaclava Mustard unholsters his gun and shoots 4 times. Brown Hat Green-ish then gets startled and also unholsters, shoots 2-3 times as the guy is already on the floor, followed by 4-5 from Mustard. Certainly no misfire there, Mustard wanted to shoot him.
This is a reminder that guns don’t protect people by themselves. The only way to protect anything with them is to actually pull the trigger. US concealed carry culture often fails to consider that, and this guy probably thought he would be safe.
Genuine question, is there any relevance of using the Oreshnik to the target? Wouldn’t it have been possible to do similar damage with Kinzhal’s and Kh-101’s? I’m trying to understand if there’s more to it besides the signalling of shooting a nuclear capable IRBM right next to Poland.
That’s a actually the problem. It’s a definition so broad to be useless. Neither provides any distinction between countries who fit or not the Marxist definition, but also encompasses almost the whole world. Give me a single country that isn’t imperialist according to that definition?
Ah yes, Eastern Europe, the leading voices of the Global South.
Like Gaza, Ayiti is a type of concentration camp, and like Palestinians, Ayitians have never stopped resisting their occupation and never will. In addition to successive military interventions, the U.S. and West European powers have unleashed brutal and unrelenting repression in every sphere of Ayiti’s existence, including the psych-ops campaign to demonize Ayiti’s rich cultural and spiritual heritage. Despite this, Ayiti remains a “problem” for them, because no matter how hard they try, they have never been able to crush the indomitable spirit of the Ayitian people.
I just want to say your comment finally made it make sense to me. I’ve been struggling to understand this trend for a long time. Thanks comrade!
Don’t confuse “top official” with military official. He’s a civilian politician who was once minister of defense. He’s from the right-wing of the governing Worker’s Party and is currently an advisor for Lula.
The same Lula who did not recognise Maduro’s election in 2024, blocked Venezuela’s entry into BRICS, won’t even name Venezula in official speeches, and is now cozying up to the USA in exchange for the end of the tariffs.
Brazil won’t intervene. It might even help the US.
Had to look into their history, and sadly it’s not! Though I suppose at this point it’d be easy to hack up a bot that always comments the same things on Yog’s posts on here and pass as an actual liberal user.
I think it’s fair, long range missiles are the “diplomatic weapon”. Give long range missiles to Sweden and also Cuba, Venezuela, the Sahel States, Colombia, Mexico, Bolivia and any other small country that feels threatened by a military superpower. That’ll ensure no more wars. \s
Actually it’s not torture, it’s Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. Totally different so it’s completely fine. \s
Trotskyist new parties getting media coverage on being “revolutionary” on a purely aesthetic basis. Never seen that op before.
I’m not ignoring it, I’m afraid of it being reframed under the rug of “foreign influence” and “bad actors”. I see the Israel Lobby as a US sub-operation rather than a particularly Israeli one. I believe the US controls Israel rather than the other way around, and Zionist psyops are just another tool for maintaining the relationship no matter how domestically unpalatable it becomes. If there was no Epstein and no worldwide sex-traficking ring or related blackmail, I can still see Trump, Biden, Clinton, Obama or any other bourgeois spokesperson enacting the exact same policy because of material conditions, not being personally compromised through a Jewish relative. The MIC doesn’t need to blackmail their representatives to maintain support for the rabid dog white supremacist military colony in the Middle East. If anything, these revelations could be a prelude for smoothly replacing Trump the Person with another Trump the Politician.