Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
Can’t he just do the big funny with a tomahawk missile before retiring?
Oh, what a surprise, another Black officer kicked out.
For those that don’t know, the US armed forces have moved back into an abandoned military base (Roosevelt Roads) in Puerto Rico. Apparently they have been moving a lot of equipment there. Expect an American escalation in the Carribean.
yea there’s drones at aguadilla airport (BQN) - faurly sure that’s where the Venezuelan bombing raids been flying out of
Lmao off at our island being used to bomb people but also racists being mad that someone from that same island gets to play the Superbowl halftime.
exacto ><
Even the guardian is saying “purge the military of leaders who support diversity and equity” instead of the truth: “purge the military of anyone not straight and white”.
Can the USA just fucking leave Venezuela alone? Fuck america is stupid.
But oil…
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We’re not trying to steal their oil. The reasons are much stupider than that: fascists need an external enemy to justify their militarism. They’re desperate for a rally around the flag. Same as with Iraq.
Could have just helped Ukraine amd actually done some good.
Well, Trump has had some harsh words against Putin recently. The issue for him is that he’s too fucking impatient. He wants to be the man who solved the war in a day, but neither side is willing to give up like that. First he supported Russia, but the Ukrainians wouldn’t give in, then he supported the Ukrainians, but the Russians wouldn’t give-in. Then he pivoted to the middle East, hence the “12-day war” that he “ended.”
This business with Venezuela is no different, in my eyes. He wants a big win under his belt, and an external threat to bring a rally-aroud-the-flag. It’s like Mussolini desperately invading Ethiopia, in hopes of strengthen his position at home, only to isolate Italy from the world. It’s all just very, very stupid and evil and shortsighted.
Lets hope he gets the mussolini ending
Ok but capitalist interests like Kraft literally want to reinstate capitalism in Venezuela so that they can re privatize their oil industry and put it back into the hands of foreign private interests. It’s a big part of it.
Reopening Venezuela to the global markets is certainly a part of it, but “stealing their oil” isn’t. It’s more about the fact that they’re a thorn in America’s side, by not being part of the established political order, and calling themselves Socialist. It’s just all politics, and balancing coalition interests with public image.
Though, they wouldn’t really be “reinstating capitalism” either, just reopening them to markets and (hopefully, from their perspective) privatizing parts of the economy. Or, more specifically, bringing them into the global investment capital system. Venezuela only ever really nationalized a few key industries, there aren’t giant worker-enterprizes to disassemble, like in the Russian Civil War. It’s a much easier transition, and still, in pursuit of domestic political capital, not resource rights.
What always got me with Venezuela, and why I read a couple books about it, was that they aren’t even that staunchly socialist. They nationalized A FEW KEY INDUSTRIES. That’s why I became curious about it. Obviously there’s the whole “we can’t have socialist countries existing without abject poverty” schtick that the states likes to do, but it is largely because the private oil interests that dominated the country want back in, and probably a personal vendetta with how Chavez removed them.
Which, by the way? How he did that? cheffs kiss
That’s a lot of words to say ExxonMobil wants access to their oil production
Literally though. That’s the be all and end all of everything that’s been happening with the Venezuela/USA thing.
Nelson Mandela voiced his opposition in late January, stating “All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil,” and questioning if Bush deliberately undermined the U.N. “because the secretary-general of the United Nations [was] a black man”.
But “oil” is mentioned 43 times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
I’m gonna start calling Hegseth “Hogsex” instead 'cause he fucks the orange pig so well.
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It’s funny and yes it does!
The better way to make a change would be to become America’s Qaddafi. 1. Pull USA out of Caribbean and Venezuela 2. Use the military to get ICE off the street and prosecute the fascists at all levels of government 3. Transfer power to democratically elected body.
I don’t get why people in power quit out of protest. Then what, a fascist takes their place? Good thinking bozo.
Edit: this came up on my feed, I guess the wiretap is working lol
From barracks to palace: Soldiers who led military coups to become state leaders
