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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on August 28 that there was “no way” United States troops could invade his country.
The remarks came as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump continues to escalate against Venezuela over drug trafficking.
The U.S. designated Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua and a number of Mexican drug cartels as global terrorist organizations last February, and later doubled the reward for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from to $50 million. Maduro is accused by the Trump administration of being “the world’s biggest drug trafficker”.
Earlier this month, the U.S. dispatched seven warships, along with a nuclear attack submarine, to Latin America and the Caribbean on a supposed counter-cartel mission. More than 4,500 US service members, including some 2,200 Marines, are reportedly aboard the ships.
The Venezuelan military has already announced a “significant” drone deployment as well as naval patrols along the country’s Caribbean coast.
At the same time, the country deployed 15,000 troops to the Zulia and Tachira states, which border Colombia, to bolster security and crackdown on drug traffickers.
“There’s no way they can enter Venezuela,” Maduro said in a speech to troops, according to the state-run Venezuela News Agency, stating that his country was well prepared to defend its sovereignty
“Today, we are stronger than yesterday. Today, we are more prepared to defend peace, sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the president added.
Separately on August 28, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to protest the U.S. naval deployment near the country’s coast.
“It’s a massive propaganda operation to justify what the experts call kinetic action – meaning military intervention in a country which is a sovereign and independent country and is no threat to anyone,” Moncada told reporters after meeting with Guterres.
“They are saying that they are sending a nuclear submarine … I mean, it’s ridiculous to think that they’re fighting drug trafficking with nuclear submarines,” the ambassador said.
In a statement responding to recent U.S. military moves near Venezuela, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Moscow unequivocally rejects the use of force against sovereign states and expresses its solidarity with the Venezuelan people.
“Russia firmly opposes the threat of force as a tool of foreign policy and stands with the people and government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” she stated, according to TASS. “Venezuela has an inalienable right to determine its political, economic, and social course freely, without external pressure, in a peaceful environment.”
Zakharova also recalled a telephone conversation on August 22 between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez Gomez.
In the call, Lavrov reaffirmed Russia’s full support for Venezuela’s efforts to protect its sovereignty and maintain institutional stability.
“We maintain close, direct, and trusting contacts with Venezuela, guided by our strategic partnership and taking into account the evolving situation,” the spokeswoman noted.
Russia has for long been a key defense partner of Venezuela. Most of the advanced weapons currently in service with the Venezuelan military, including air defense systems, heavy rocket launchers and multirole fighter jets, were supplied by Moscow.
The U.S. escalation is not surprising. The country did not recognize Maduro’s past two election victories. In addition, Trump even floated the idea of a military intervention in Venezuela during his first term.
Now, it is very clear that the U.S. military build-up near the oil-rich country is not about countering drug cartels. At minimum the Trump administration is attempting to pressure Maduro to achieve some political settlement, and at worst an invasion is being prepared.
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economic sanctions are a crime against the rights of the all humans to buy and sell the products of their own labor: sanctions are immoral and unethical because they are fundamentally against creation itself and common law throughout history. against nature itself too, as all life must put in effort to survive: effort is work.
maduro is not only reducing his country to poverty, once one of the richest countries in the world thanks to us companies developing the oil fields, but he is waving a red flag in front of a bull. the us could take this commie punk out anytime, certainly doesn’t have to invade.
stupid americunt turd scum—feminized americunts sodomized by taliban cannot liberate portland from antifa
before chavez a few rich oligarchs installed by americunt scum–everybody else poor
“everybody else” was just indigenous subhumans and dumb working class peasants who don’t understand capitalism. chavez the commie tyrant robbed honest billionaire entrepeneurs to hand out their hard-earned money to poor lazy people.
“i do not envy amerikan happiness–it is the happiness of a different and inferior species”. stendhal
“since amerikan political technique is inferior they must devote more resources to propaganda”. jacque ellul
“the problem with amerikans is not orwellian it is huxleyan: amerikans love their oppression”. neil postman
“busy bust numb amerikans cannot feel themselves alive unless they feel themselves busy”. thomas de zengodita
is the puritan upset? “amerikans are farcical when it comes to money and force majeure—the 2 things they worship”. gore vidal
“amerikans so worship money they use a business term to refer to their lovers–parttner”. george lakoff
“”the amerikan national character differs profoundly from those in europe asia latin america; only in amerika is the father vestigial”. geoffrey gorer
“amerikans love big because they feel so small”. philip slater
“amerikans have always been genocidal enjoying killing from afar”. philip slater
“amerikans are threatened by complicated feelings”. richard sennet
“amerikans cannot feel pure pleasure”. slavoj zizek
“amerikans do not remember, amertikans do not feel amerikans live in a materialist dream”. moisede ostrogorski
“amrikans speak about money far more than europeans. the double symbolism they assign to money is considered paradoxical to europeans”. geoffrey gorer
“the only god in amerika is money”. malcolm x
“to love money is to hate god”. jacque ellul
“the worst evil is anti-communism”. roland barthes
“communism is far more compatible with christianity than is capitalism”. nicolai berdayaev
“as one digs deeper into the national character of amerikans one sees they have south the value of everything in this world according to the answer to a single question–how much money will it bring in?” tocqueville
inferior americunts dumber than cattle—feminized americunts only take out transgenders in your gay bars
of course a supporter of putinist puppet maduro like you is a raging homophobe.
fuck them trans lgbt weirdos and you as well.
how many times your taliban therapist sodomize you?
“all amerikans acquire a feminine conceive”. geoffrey gorer…”the feminine super ego is amoral”. fromm
“the feminine conscience is immoral”. schopenhauer
edit; “all amerikans acquire a feminine conscience”. geoffrey gorer
“amerikan males are feminized by the tyranny of the school m’arm; amerikans have been liars and braggarts for 3 centuries”. daniel boorstin
“amerikans are mean bitter over conformist semi automatons that cannot provide each other sexual pleasure”. david riesman
see your lgbt purple hair therapist for gender affirming care…”only in amerika has the dignity of the father ceased to exist”. adorno
‘the amerikan mind is primitive and peurile”. julius evola
“amerikans are the living refutation of the cartesian cogito ergo sum. amerikans are yet they cannot think..the amerikan mind is primitive peurile..” julius evola
“the stupidity and ignorance of amerikans has long been a topic of hilarity in europe”. paul fussell
‘for an amerikan poverty is an embarrassment–for a serb bit is a socratic symbol of family unity of struggle”. emir kustiricia
“amerikans are the most prudish people in western civilization they sublimate their desire by chasing the dollar–amerika is gigantic a gigantic mistake”. sigmund freud
“all the sensitiveness has dried up in amerikans–the crystallization love is impossible in united states”. stendhal
“amerikans so worship money they transform money into time–they spend save afford buy budget invest in time”. norman o brown
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trump surely would love to sell stolen oil to bootlicking europeon vasals.
venezuela is deliberately being made poor by economic sanctions, which, ironically, were an old communist trick used to subordinate puppet governments. read my earlier comment and rethink what you are hearing because it’s more warmongering lies, as usual. anyone who believes the lying msm should go get another booster …
venezuela is far from alone. many nations seek its energy and minerals to provide property to its populations. soon america will be forever removed from sharing its wealth. yet long term stupidity is its corporate policy . decades of policy papers by such groups as rand corporation exist so anyone can research this for absolute proof.
this will become another vietnam and as an armed american i guarantee i’ll never be drafted and sent to murder people who i have no problem with. better to die in the country i love.
a us invasion certainly isn’t impossible. americans may be the most warlike people in the history of humankind. literally.
hell, they already tried a few years back. got totally destroyed, but…not for lack of effort.
yes we lose all wars—“amerika the most war like nation in history”. jimmy carter
why inferior amerikans comment at sf? boring
“the amerikan soul is hard isolate stoic a killer–thew ameerikan soul has never melted”. dh lawrence
“there is no functioning democracy in amerika–it is an oligarchy..” jimmy carter
“totalitarianism requires conformity: amerikns are the most conformist people on earth”. jacque ellul
“the east german stasi could only have dreamed of having a police state like usa”. thomas drake
“the us constitution contains inherent contradictions that encourages dictatorship”. kurt godel
“the artificial sexual scarcity in amerika derives from the amerikan money neurosis”. philip slater
“the banality of amerika—the radical absence of culture”. baudrilliard
russia can’t even support russia, how the hell are they going to help anyone else. eg. syria and iran.