US captures Venezuela's leader and his wife in a stunning operation and plans to prosecute them
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The United States has captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flown him out of the country in a stunning military operation that plucked a sitting leader from office following months of escalating Trump administration pressure on the oil-rich South American nation.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. The government accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations in multiple states.

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Venezuela’s government, in the statement, called on its supporters to take to the streets.

“People to the streets!” the statement said. “The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack.”

The statement added that President Nicolás Maduro had “ordered all national defense plans to be implemented” and declared “a state of external disturbance.” That state of emergency gives him the power to suspend people’s rights and expand the role of the armed forces.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    Your reply is a colossal waste of time to cope and seeth.

    1. Kamala, nor Biden, ever made any indications that regime change in Venezuela was on their radar. Biden had 4 years to execute such a thing, but his focus was never on Venezuela. We have no evidence whatsoever that Kamala’s would be either.
    2. Understand that regime change in Venezuela was a part of project 2025. Trump’s policy from the Heritage Foundation,a Trump ally. It was always specifically on his roadmap, not Kamala’s.
    3. Trump attempted regime change in Venezuela in his first term and failed. Much of this due to the safe guards of competent military leadership there to push back against his illegal orders. Under Biden, this leadership wasn’t purged for yes men. There’s no reason to believe Kamala would’ve done it either. Trump, however, immediately started purging military leadership in his 2nd term, specifically so he could have yes men in place who’d agree to this.
    4. The constitution, although battered, wasn’t set on fire under Biden like it has been under Trump, and there’s zero indication that it would have been under Kamala. Neither Biden nor Kamala ever indicated they would ever take power to eliminate all safe guards and watch dogs, send the National Guard to invade US cities to terrorize dissonance, nor give their own private Gestapo (ICE) a budget to dwarf the Marines.
    5. Not Biden nor Kamala certainly indicated they’d declare all opposition domestic terrorists (NSPM-7) with the explicit goal of finding legal means to kidnap and kill dissonant voices. Especially on the eve of the most unpopular was in US history.

    You try so hard to cope and fail so miserably.

    It doesn’t matter if you spam fuck you’d prefer Kamala over Trump. What your spreading is objectively, pro-Trump propaganda and outright lies.

    This “both sides” bullshit doesn’t just only benefit the fascists, its also blatantly untrue for anyone who actually researches the topic.

    Was Kamala an angel? FUCK NO!

    Are the Dems virtuous and pro-proletariat? FUCK NO!

    Are we and the rest of the world worse off under Trump than Kamala? OBJECTIVELY FUCK YES!

    • wpb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      I don’t know man, I see a pattern of every single democratic president since Eisenhower, no exceptions, enthusiastically committing war crimes, and you’re trying to tell me “no, not this one, this one is different”. Sounds like one of us is maybe a little bit in denial.

      Also, implying that it’s a waste of time to look at the past actions of democrats to try and get a feel for what they will do in the future is such a self report.

      • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Idk man, I think you’re reading what you want to read and not what I said, and instead are coping hard to justify surrender to fascists in 2024.

        There is zero evidence whatsoever that Venezuela, let alone the absolute rapid-fire destruction of the US constitution and rule of law to get us here would have happened under Kamala. Especially since it didn’t happen under Biden. Venezuela was only ever really discussed by the fascists and invading it and taking over was in Project 2025

        I think you’re coping with an extreme reach in this situation. You’re pointing to the actions of past Dems to claim Kamala might have very specifically attacked Venezuela unprovoked.

        Insane cope. Just accept the left foolishly surrendered to fascists because they became too blinded for their hate of neo-liberals to see they were cutting their own balls off.

        • wpb@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          So to convince me that candidate A would not do xyz, you keep harping on about candidate B and how they would do xyz. Do you understand why that’s not a very convincing argument? We all know about project 2025, we all know about republicans. We’re looking at it. That doesn’t make democrats any better (on imperial foreign interventionist policies).

          • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            You clearly don’t read.

            You and your camp make the dumb ass claim that Kamala would have likely done the same thing with Venezuela, when I say this wouldn’t have happened under Kamala.

            I’ve provided my reasoning for why. You lot absolutely refuse to provide any reasoning or evidence to your side that does t rely on circumstances that don’t directly relate to the situation.