That would be a good reason for the secretary of war to… well… go to war. They’re already clearly bloodthirsty since they proudly display bombing Venezuelas boats like it’s no big deal.
and forcing the generals to show up to a pointless speech was a show of strength.
Isn’t this exactly what someone might say, right before attacking the US embassy in Caracas?
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Symbolically attack a US embassy
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Get bombed into the stone age by a war hungry American president
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???
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Profit
Wouldn’t be the 1st time a dictator with a weakening grip on power has instigated a war with another county, in order to try and solidify his domestic support. It’s actually pretty textbook.
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Why would they attack the US embassy when the US literally at their doorstep with missiles pointed at them, fishing for an excuse.
Should probably be looking at the people looking for the excuse.
Because Maduro loves to use the US as a universal boogeyman, to justify his continued political existence. The threat of impending invasion is good PR for him.
Why instigate an invasion when the enemy is literally at the door blowing up civilians? This makes zero sense.
Maybe the US should stop giving him excuses to use them as an universal boogeyman if they want the 16th coup attempt to work.
Terminally marvel brained
#RuthkandaForever
Maduro and his government have a long history of blaming the U.S. for problems stemming from government mismanagement and incompetence. It’s the only way he’s managed to hold onto power as long as he has. If it weren’t for all the conspiracy theories surrounding the US’s involvement in literally EVERYTHING, then who else would the people have to blame? For example:
Early “Sabotage” Claims (2013)
Accusation: Soon after taking office, Maduro claimed the White House was plotting a “collapse” of his government through sabotage of food, electricity, and fuel supplies in October 2013.
Reality: As with later incidents, critics viewed this as a tactic to deflect blame from the government’s own failing policies and to boost approval ratings with anti-U.S. rhetoric. A political scientist noted at the time that few Venezuelans actually believed the alleged coup attempts.
2019 Nationwide Blackout
Accusation: In March 2019, a massive power outage crippled Venezuela for days. Maduro and his government immediately claimed the U.S. and the Venezuelan opposition orchestrated a “criminal attack” and “cyber warfare” against the national electrical system. Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez accused U.S. Senator Marco Rubio by name of being involved.
Reality: Experts and opposition leaders pointed to years of government mismanagement, corruption, and a severe lack of maintenance and investment in the country’s power grid as the true cause. A former president of the national electricity corporation stated that the 2019 outage was a result of incompetence and poor maintenance, not sabotage.
Economic Collapse and Hyperinflation
Accusation: As Venezuela’s economy collapsed and hyperinflation skyrocketed, Maduro’s administration repeatedly blamed U.S. sanctions and what it calls “economic terrorism” for the country’s economic woes.
Reality: Economists and international organizations primarily attribute the economic crisis to the Maduro government’s policies, including price controls, currency mismanagement, and corruption. U.S. sanctions were largely targeted at specific individuals and sectors, rather than the general economy, and many of the economic issues predated the most severe sanctions.
Oil Industry Decline
Accusation: In 2025, amidst a U.S. military presence in the Caribbean, Maduro accused the U.S. of a thinly veiled attempt to seize Venezuela’s natural resources under the guise of an anti-drug operation. This fits a long-running pattern of blaming U.S. actions for the decline of Venezuela’s oil industry.
Reality: While U.S. sanctions have impacted the oil industry, analysts note the decline began much earlier due to years of mismanagement, corruption, and lack of investment by the state-owned oil company, PDVSA. Production had already fallen dramatically before sanctions were in place.
2024 Presidential Election Unrest
Accusation: Following the widely disputed 2024 presidential election, Maduro blamed the subsequent protests and unrest on a “far-right conspiracy” spearheaded by the U.S. and his political rivals. He accused the opposition of faking election results.
Reality: The U.S., Canada, and the European Union all condemned the election as neither free nor fair. The Venezuelan opposition presented overwhelming evidence suggesting their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won by a wide margin, contradicting the government’s official results.
Claim: absolutely true shit said by somebody I don’t want to think is right
Reality: the most genocidal, warmongering, racist country ever told me “nah bro it wasn’t like that” and I identify with them so much that I just took their word for it
You clearly haven’t spoken to very many Venezuelans, have you? I have lots of extended family there, and I can assure you, they don’t support Maduro. The only people that still do, are either being bribed or extorted.
There aren’t very many “true Chavistas” left. And the ones that are still there, also don’t unanimously support Maduro. Chavez was inspirational. Maduro is just incompetent.
My bad I didn’t know you knew a statistically significant portion of venezuelans of a random array of educational, economic, and cultural backgrounds. This is for real the first time some gringo tells me they know a somebody (making them basically an authority on the subject).
I guess the sanctions that were designed precisely for the purpose of causing unrest have nothing to do with the people desperate or angry enough to go to those Nazi-ass countries being very dissatisfied with the situation at home. What a fucking revelation, I’m telling you.
Updated August 8, 2023
Venezuela: Overview of U.S. Sanctions For over 17 years, the United States has imposed sanctions in response to activities of the Venezuelan government and Venezuelan individuals.
https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF10715/IF10715.42.pdf
Yeah I guess theyre just bad at math or something, sanctions don’t have an impact, that’s why the usa imposes them
accusation: nuh uhhhh
reality: youre a bozo
Venezuela isn’t being hit any harder than any other country the US has beef with. Those other countries aren’t all collapsing under the weight of those sanctions. In every other case, they’ve managed to find a stable equilibrium within their own means. So, why is Venezuela so different? Why isn’t Iran experiencing rolling blackouts in a weekly basis? Why is Cuba able to fund cutting edge medical research?
Venezuela has no shortage of natural resources at its disposal, and also no shortage of countries willing to do business with them, despite the sanctions. There is no reason why they should have failed so completely, to maintain even a minimum level of economic stability.
But, they haven’t. They’re unique in both their economic and infrastructural collapse, as well as their out of control inflation. Almost everything they’ve done over the last two decades has made their situation worse than it should have been. It’s like they took all the available options, and chose the ones that would cause the most damage.
Don’t just AI generate arguments.
I actually had that one saved on my phone. This isn’t the 1st time I’ve made the argument that Maduro is a bad leader.
You saved that drivel on your phone as if it were useful for anything other than smoking gun proof you’re a dope?
First off the entire premise of your argument is fucking stupid. He’s a bad leader? Oh well! Not your fucking problem! He’s the democratically elected leader of that country so fuck off.
But even allowing your hitleresque premise that you should be allowed to murder tens or hundreds of thousands of people because they voted wrong, your arguments are as stupid as a New York Times article and for the exact same reasons. Just taking a sample from the middle:
Reality: Economists and international organizations primarily attribute the economic crisis to the Maduro government’s policies, including price controls, currency mismanagement, and corruption. U.S. sanctions were largely targeted at specific individuals and sectors, rather than the general economy, and many of the economic issues predated the most severe sanctions.
“The people applying the sanctions to their country, who are actively engaged in a propaganda campaign to de-legitimize it, and who are repeatedly murdering their civilians with military attacks on random fucking boats sailing around it, said the sanctions aren’t what made the country bad, it was already bad!”
Fucking baby brain.
If you actually believe the line that sanctions don’t hurt the general economy you’re a fucking moron and I can’t be effusive enough on that point. You’re extremely fucking stupid to think that. It’s literally the entire fucking point of them. The politicians putting them in place say so explicitly in all situations except in this specific context when they’re defending themselves against critics. The entire point of sanctions is to make the population blame and overthrow the government.
https://www.state.gov/venezuela-related-sanctions/
Bet that link is blue for you
Reality: The U.S., Canada, and the European Union all condemned the election as neither free nor fair. The Venezuelan opposition presented overwhelming evidence suggesting their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won by a wide margin, contradicting the government’s official results.
“Trump said the election was stolen that’s why I’m building a gallows for Mike Pence”
You are a bot for the USA against Venezuela, the USA has attempted more than a dozen coups in this country . Full stop. Your neck is brown
Nope. My wife is Venezuelan, and most of her family were originally Chavez supporters. None of them still support Maduro at this point. He isn’t even a Socialist. He’s just an opportunistic parasite that’s taking advantage of what Chavez tried to build.
I feel for you brother.
How did you and your family feel over the past three decades as the United States attempted over 15 coups in your country?
The united states is an enemy to the entire world
I don’t disagree with you. That doesn’t mean that the Maduro government isn’t also corrupt and incompetent.
Maduro using the USA as a bogeyman is a lot different from going to war with the USA.
At this point, the USA is looking for an excuse to go to war and Maduro has backed down from a lot of positions to keep the USA from having any excuses.
Under any other president, I would say, “Why would the US bother?” But, unfortunately with Trump, you never know.
But, by the numbers…why would they bother? Maduro has already agreed to allow US oil companies to take their oil…so, why invade when you are already getting what you want from the current administration?
What the US is doing out in international waters, is performative theater for their base at home. They sit out there and blow up a few smuggling boats, and all the brain dead MAGAts at home, cheer. The US still gets the oil, and also gets to claim they’re being “tough on Maduro”, without risking a single US soldier.
Maduro on the other hand, is hemorrhaging support at home. People are catching on, to the fact that he is completely corrupt and has no intention of helping them. He’s getting richer every day, thanks to US investment, and none of it is “trickling down” to the people. He’s had to crack down on dissent after he lost the last election and refused to leave office, and now even his allies are losing faith in his administration.
What he needs is for the boogeyman to do something real. He can’t keep relying on flimsy conspiracy theories and conjecture. He needs them to “prove” that they are a real threat, or else no one is going to keep believing his bullshit anymore. And, if a few Venezuelans have to die in the process…well, that’s just a sacrifice I’m sure he’s willing to make.
The first Trump administration did the same thing to Iran that this administration is trying to do to Venezuela, get the weaker nation to do something that would be construed as a casus belli to justify regime change. Trump wants to be a wartime president without being the aggressor.
Maduro may be bleeding support, but Venezuela can’t win a war against the USA and Trump is looking for any excuse to go to war. Having an American ship parked off shore should be enough to pull in some patriotic support. However, any aggression against the USA now could be used as an excuse for regime change.
Except there was no regime change in Iran. They just rattled their swords for the crowd, which is all they’re doing now.
And for the record, the US has a long history of losing to so-called “weaker countries”, when asymmetrical warfare is involved. The only war they actually managed to “finish” recently, was the invasion of Iraq…and that was largely because the Iraqi population wasn’t actually trying to fight back. Venezuela would not be the same.
And I’m not trying to say this would be a smart move by Maduro…just desperation. Right now, half the population in Venezuela don’t even believe the government when they say there’s an American fleet parked offshore. The government has been saying shit like that every other week for the last 12 years, and it always turns out to either be totally overblown, or straight up bullshit. People there just aren’t buying into the propaganda like they used to. Which is never a good sign for a dictatorship that relies on fear mongering, in order to maintain loyalty.
False flag attack on Venezuela incoming. Anything to direct from the Epstein files … literally ANYTHING.
This is bad analysis.
They’re gonna do a false flag on Venezuela because they want to destroy a left-wing government. The fact that it will distract from the Epstein files is a positive side effect, but they are enacting an agenda beyond it.
Another nuke dropped in Vancouver? Man, he really wants people to forget the Epstein files smh
