• Bilb!@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    There seems to be some confusion among the commenters here. Delcy Rodríguez is not María Machado. Machado is the one who got the Nobel Peace Prize and is not acting president of Venezuela. Delcy Rodríguez is the former Vice President who took over.

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      And is also, according to Trump at least, also not the acting president. The acting president according to Trump is… Trump

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    Well, yeah, it was pretty obvious that Trump did not control Venezuela since he has no troops on the ground.

    He’s just been threathening the current Venezuelan leadership with personally getting the same fate as Maduro, but that’s not at all the same as controlling the actual country.

    No amount of struting like some prized rooster by Trump on this (like he does for just about everything just before he TACOes) alters the reality that a special ops kidnapping isn’t anywhere near the same level of military commitment as an invasion and at most will deliver chaos rather than control.

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      It’s not even going to cause chaos. The country was functioning as usual within hours of Maduro’s kidnapping because support for the Bolivaran revolution is incredibly high and the project has created a horizontal distribution of power to help working Venezuelans hold political power.

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      Not to mention, Trump essentially has to keep that military force ready at all times to keep the pressure, or pull it away from other places he’s threatening, like Iran. By the time the fleet is back on it’s way Rodríguez just has to play nice for a while again and eventually mother nature, midterms, or whatever form it will take, will take care of Trump.

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    7 days ago

    Here come the bombs again then…

    Never, ever accept help from MAGA. That is your lesson.

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    I haven’t known this woman long but all I have seen so far is her saying one thing and doing another.

    She says she isn’t going to just be a US lackey, but her actions sure show she is.

    Best thing she can do is tell Trump to F off, and follow up actions with it.

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      The conflict is rather between different narratives being pushed. What are actual actions that she took cintrary to what she says? Trump and a lot of the media wants to push the narrative that she is cooperating with the us… so we have to look at actual actions rather than misquoted words here and there.

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    Trumplestiltskin probably wants her to pay for his Gaza hotel scheme. So the money won’t go to him directly it’ll go to his satanic son-in-law Jared the Antichrist kushner. So it’ll never touch Trump’s hands it’ll just touch by proxy. As long as he gets a penthouse with a view of the Mediterranean and a view of whatever golf course he puts there he’ll be as happy as a fat pig

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      Trump is the antichirst in this. After all he has all these people wearing those hats with his mark of the beast on them that they voluntarily wear on their foreheads.

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      and convert their foreign currency exchanges to $TRUMP, build a few TRUMP hotel and resort complexes and lease all of the mayor ports and pipelines to the US…

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    Ofcourse she has to say that unless she wants a civil war on her hands. So she is going to act all tough and defiant.

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    Krasnov and Delcy share a lot in common, especially the dictator bit. Go to hell, both of you.

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    What is she complaining about? All the countries in the world have been taking and following orders from the US for the last 75 years and have been happy about it. They don’t like offensive comments from the current president. But orders? Just give us more!

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      “This is totally unacceptable. Venezuela would never take threats and orders from the United States. We maintain our sovereignty against such an audacious adversary. Anyway in unrelated news, we are opening up the oil industry to privatization to help stir the economy. I can assure you this idea was 100% of our own making and has absolutely nothing to do with American demands.”

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        Have they actually opened up to privatizations? Or is it just talk here and there?

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          Its currently a proposal that was passed in the NA, and they’re debating over whether they should reduce the 30% royalties for certain situations.

          Would not be surprised if it gets passed by the president.

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    lololololol

    These dumb bastards always, always think ‘he’ll never turn on me!’ despite literal decades of evidence to the contrary.

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    But she gave him the Nobel prize! Shouldn’t they be frens?

    Edit: I haven’t had coffee yet my b

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    Bye, Del-cy-sha.

    Ok, I don’t wish her harm or any ill will. I just know that, in this meat grinder of international diplomacy, theres a cost if she tries to push back on Lord Farquaad’s wishes. He’s already promised he would harm her — like every other woman he’s ever encountered.

    Beneath the politics, almost certainly, Delcy Rodriguez and María Corina Machado both want what will benefit Venezuelans. Or, perhaps, they only want to serve their own supporters. Regardless, neither of these women will gain from participating in the Game of Thrones that Washington has engaged.

    Also, Angela Means’s quest to vindicate Felisha has merit. Much is assumed about her. Few, if any, care for her. These are the stories we promote. This is the world we promote.

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      No, she was the second in the regime.

      The Trump admin felt it was probably more effective to give the current regime a slap to let them know who is calling the shots, but otherwise leave the regime largely intact. If they can just get the same Venezuela as it already existed, just as a vassal state, mission accomplished.

      Versus Machado, who was the opposition leader trying to ingratiate herself with Trump up to giving him her peace prize in hopes of having the US implement her indirect electoral victory in 2024. Trump administration has shown zero interest in making that happen.