The only fact is I believe Venezuela should decide Venezuela’s own affairs, whatever way that goes is their business and fine with me.
You keep attributing arguments to me that I’m not making. Which is dishonest as hell. And I’m honestly surprised your apparantly all gung ho for a us invasion since that is literally the only thing I said I’m against and you are coming at me so hard..
I’m also not anti-US, I am anti US bullying and taking advantage of every other country on earth and anti us military industrial complex which is prioritized above all including the well being of our own citizens.
You keep attributing arguments to me that I'm not making, which is dishonest as hell.
I have never supported a US invasion of Venezuela. You claim I am gung ho for such yet I have never made a statement in support of such.
The people who are most interested in Latin America and who best understand its history and culture are Latin Americans.
I don't think non-Latin people should have a say in the region's politics.
And if I want to know about Egypt- I ask a person from Egypt. If I want to know about Yemen, I ask Yemenis.
I'm interested in the discussion that is going on among Latin Americans themselves on Venezuela.
The fact is the discussion taking place among Latin Americans is totally different than what I hear non-Latin people saying.
I mean... if I want to know about Syria... I want to ask Syrians.
People in South America are saying that the reason many of the people in the US are supporting Venezuela is because they lack first-hand experience. Not everyone is saying that but many people are saying that.
If you were to poll Latin Americans, I think the vast, vast majority want Maduro gone- including if you were to only poll Venezuelans.
The whole basis for the Maduro thing is Communism and as I said before, the masses of Latin Americans despise Communism.
Maybe people who are not Latin think the US will invade Venezuela.... but I think Latin Americans in general are skeptical of this. I am not saying no Latin people think it will happen but..... I think they're a minority.
I am of the opinion that it is absurd, as are many Latin Americans.
I think a belief that it would actually happen is a mere indication of lack of grasping Latin American history. What's happening in Venezuela isn't new.
The idea that the US will invade Cuba or Venezuela any minute is an old trope of Fidel, Chávez, etc.
The fact is the invasion is simply not going to happen. It's just rhetoric from Trump, as well as rhetoric from Maduro and his camp. It's nothing more than rhetoric.
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Cuba, Venezuela- all those situations and more yet no such invasions in those cases. If you really think the invasion will happen, you've fallen for the rhetoric. It will never happen.
If you watch the videos of Yuri Bezmenoc, he says when he was growing up, he used to be told the same thing in the Soviet Union- the US was allegedly going to invade any minute.
So this is apparently a common thing with Communist regimes. They use the US as a boogeyman like George Bush used "terrorists". If you're George Bush, you say "either you're with us or you're with the terrorists," if you're a Communist dictator "you're with us or with the US imperialists!". It's a mere scam.
Let me see.... oh yes also you persist in a US-centric paradigm which is as though we live in a unipolar world- as though the US without competition rules the world.
We do not live in a unipolar world and this is naive to think this way.
This is a difference when I hear many non-Latin people discuss Venezuela and when I look at the discussion taking place among Latin Americans.
The people I talk to in South America near Venezuela generally see this as a US versus Russia thing.
To misrepresent me- and you cannot produce a quote backing your position because no such quote exists- as supporting a US invasion is not only misrepresenting my position but misrepresenting a position that is common across Latin America.
Many, many people in South America (Venezuela is in South America and South America is only
part of Latin America but that's another topic) want Maduro gone.
However, this doesn't mean they would support a US invasion. I don't support a single US troop being on Latin American soil. Were US troops actually to invade Venezuela, I would be in favor of them being killed.
This is very far from the position you ascribe to me. I want Maduro removed from power but that doesn't mean I am for a US invasion.
However, my position is that such an invasion will never happen and that the very suggestion it will happen is laughable.
If Maduro is removed, it will be Venezuelans themselves who remove him.
And getting guns and money from the US isn't being a US puppet. Look at Afghanistan.
The situation isn't US versus Latin Americans. The situation is Latin Americans versus Latin Americans. One camp has Russian backing, the other camp with US backing. Latin Americans will fight it out amongst themselves, as has been the case for centuries.
And I am not advocating for a civil war. I am simply saying I want Maduro removed from power- the same as the majority of Venezuelans want. If all foreign actors were removed, Maduro would not last. It's foreign imperialism that keeps him in power in the first place.
So I simply want Maduro removed and I am not advocating for any particular means. The means would be up to God and Venezuelans.
And further, the concept that the US rules the world and the world is unipolar is mythology- not actuality. The world is not unipolar. Yemen aligned with Russia. Cuba aligned with Russia. Somalia aligned with Russia. How have things worked out for them?
What exactly have Cubans got in exchange for their suffering? What exactly does Maduro offer Venezuelans?
There is no moral or spiritual advantage in aligning with Russia rather than the US. And if there's no moral advantage, you might as well have some food to eat and to have rights and freedom rather than suffer under a Communist dictatorship. People can wish Communism on those suffering people in Venezuela but they wouldn't wish the same conditions for themselves. If they themselves were going through what the Venezuelans are going through, they would feel very differently.