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.
Ask the people in Russia. They would die if they rebelled - you wouldn’t, but I’m pretty sure that it will soon be the same for you if you don’t manage to organize serious resistance while you still can.
When I read comments like this, I have little hope that US citizens will manage to shake off their apathy. It is what it is. If you don’t help yourselves, things will only continue to go downhill, as they have for decades - whether you like it or not is irrelevant. It is simply a fact, and it will not help you in any way to blame anyone but yourselves. Other countries cannot intervene because the US is too powerful. We in Europe have our own battles to fight, and I must say that it disgusts me that our politicians still support your mafia state. And if you ask me, yes, I would rather die than accept that my homeland is falling back into fascism. I’m from Germany, and here we know what that means. That’s why we have to find a way to break away from US social media platforms, for example, which are a major factor when it comes to poisoning people’s minds with Nazi propaganda here.
The US does not stand for freedom or any of the other narratives that still seem to impress you. Today, the US is one of humanity’s most significant problems - and that is because US citizens are unable to fight for their own interests. If you think you deserve sympathy, I cannot agree with you. Yes, it is certainly not an easy fight, but it is one that you must fight yourselves. Since you are not doing so to the extent necessary to achieve anything, the other countries of the world have little choice but to turn away - if it were up to me, I would swallow the bitter pill and accept all the economic disadvantages that await us if we turn away from your corrupt state. However, that will not happen because your elite also has our politicians in its pocket - but that is our problem; I would suggest you take care of yours so we might be able to once again work together.
That’s kind of a bold conclusion you’re not really backing up. Anything except the most peaceful assembly in the US very legitimately risks permanent injury or death at the hands of the government, and there’s countless examples of even nonviolent protests being met with lethal force.
Is it the same as attempts to protest in Russia or China? No. But it’s ridiculous to imply that apathy is the sole factor of consideration preventing a revolution in the US.
Yes, that’s true. But in a dictatorship, things look very different, as evidenced by the fact that there are no protests in Russia. If you think that’s because all Russians agree with Putin, you’re wrong.
What I’m saying is that things will only get worse in the US as time passes and the fascists tighten their grip. And that’s what I mean by apathy: not the people who are already doing something, but the millions who, despite the regime’s inhumane actions, pretend that they can just bury their heads in the sand.
Don’t you agree that the regime could be overthrown if the decent people in the US, who in my opinion are still very likely to be the majority despite MAGA, were to join forces?
There are absolutely protests in Russia.
Dude, you understand what I’m saying, right? Are you implying that the US is already a dictatorship?
I have no idea how you could draw that conclusion from my comments.
Anyways:
The US military just casually kidnapped a major head of state by exercising a tiny fraction of it’s resources, the general US population doesn’t have any more ability to violently resist that kind of overwhelming force than Venezuela does.
I am by no means calling for violence - I have no idea why you would think that. I am calling for civil disobedience, for a general strike that could paralyze the country until the regime is overthrown. I see no other way out of your situation, and I see no reason why that should not be legitimate.
I didn’t say you were calling for violence.
Okay, and you’re simply wrong.
What do you think is the right approach? Your smurf accounts will definitely not fix it…