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.
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It’s an american led coup.
Not even the first in south America but absolutely the most blatant.
Edit: “Negotiated exit” could mean a few things but it probably means they had him and his family and said ‘come with us or we go to our alternative orders’
To be clear Maduro is an ass but what the USA has done is internationally intolerable and is the kidnapping of a foreign head of state.
a foreign head of state.
Considering the elections are disputed they can claim he’s not an elected leader.
To be clear Maduro is an ass
But then so is Trump. Each one is an asscheek, they go together.
I don’t know, I don’t see Maduro kidnapping foreign leaders he doesn’t like. If Maduro is an ass cheek Trump is the post sodomy blood cum fart exploding on the world’s face.
I like your poetry.
So china, russia, North Korea and Iran should attack USA to remove your current government? And then they should insert someone in their favor instead? Is this how the world should be controlled? Kill everyone we don’t like for the sake of it, and then see if the lottery turns in our favor each time we make a regime change. So far the changes has been a success in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Right?
to remove your current government?
They only kidnapped a couple of people, the rest of the government is still there.
Drug lord vs pedophile hard to say if I want either to live or be happy.
Can we take neither and have it not fuck over the people tho?
Can you show me the evidence of Maduro being a druglord? You know this is all bullshit made up by Trump and the murderers who want their oil.
He’s still a ruthless dictator that refused the peaceful transfer of power in defiance of rule of law. Funny that this applies to both Maduro and Trump. This in no way makes excuses for the US’s actions here, but let’s not pretend Maduro was a good guy.
According to who? The CIA who helps conduct the attacks and the opposition led by Machado who also supported Trump’s campaign and supports Israeli genocide? Were you alive in the run up to the Iraq war? Look at any war the US had led in the last century. The state creates whatever narrative they want to justify their actions, Trump has stated openly that this is about their oil.
I’m ashamed of my country. JFC.
Shame will not change a thing
You can borrow this
Which US company is benefiting from the illegal attack? Conoco-Phillips? I recall they were US company drilling and exploring in Venezuela.
Which US company is benefiting from the illegal attack?
DJT/Mar-a-Lago realestate holdings inc.
All of the oil companies will. Probably the fruit companies too.
Chevron
I certainly hope the rest of the world is paying attention this time.
Sooo, what natural resource do they want to steal from Venezuela?
Oil, as always.
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Oil, it has the largest unexploited oil deposits of any nation on earth.
Doesn’t seem to matter that the IEA has said about 1.6million barrels a day have been cut from demand becase .of electric vehicles, with that nunber to keep going lower as ecars increase.
But it gets better (worse, actually) - they have low quality oil with the lowest demand and expensive refining
It’s very similar to Alberta tar sand, as I understand it, which Americanrefineries are set up for. Replace Canada’s supply, then Canada can be safely invaded without danger to the oil supply, maybe.
https://bsky.app/profile/sky.skymarchini.net/post/3mbiywglthk2f
Seems not worth it because it still needs more infrastructure
Ah. Same old same old. How boring.
"Trump says that the US is going to be “strongly involved” in Venezuela’s oil industry moving forward. "
“I don’t know what kind of an election that was, but, you know, the election of Maduro was a disgrace.”
Someone fucking quarantine the U.S. already, I’m so sick of them. We can fish out the sensible people but the rest can just rot.
Someone should extract the Trump administration.
Kicking off a Civil War should make him a lock for Nobel Peace Prize now. That’s how it works, right?
Jesus Christ. America, your new war started January 3rd 2026. The world will remember this day.
Clearly trump should have waited 1 more day.
Surprised he didn’t wait until the 6th. Seems to be his favorite day to attempt to change a country’s leadership.
That’s the false flag in Russia
Shit I forgot about that. What a hell of a few days.
Maduro and Trump are friends
Maduro gets to escape his country and save face instead of being assassinated or executed.
Trump gets to manufacture a conflict so he can start martial law and become a dictator
Maduro has been literally kidnapped and his country bombed, are you out of your fucking mind? What’s the deal with conspiracy theories in fucking Lemmy?
This is it, if the western world and the US congress does not respond appropriately this shows Trump he can do whatever he wants. Greenland will be next, nothing will happen either. This is what the Nazis did as well, fuck around and see what happens. And nothing happened for quite a bit until it was nearly to late.
Trump has apparently been consistently ‘asking’ Sheinbaum (sp?) to let him take out all the cartels in Mexico.
So uh, Mexican American War, Round 2, very much looks to be on the table.
Somewhat ironically, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex called that one, part of at least one version of half of Section 9’s member’s backstories is that they were mercs fighting in that war.
Greenland is just a distraction. The west would fall apart if the u.s attacked them.
I don’t think the Trump administration cares too much about the western world. They just told everyone: “Either you do as we say, or we will fucking take it.”
So how is that candidate for peace working out?
He’s getting it next year.
Or else…
If the kidnapping story is true, I’m guessing she’s the next legitimate president of Venezuela^tm
I wonder if maga is pro-war now.
Here’s what Katie Miller is posting on Twitter.
They love war. They know the economy sucks and the president is unpopular - they are the type of people who believe the myth of the Nazi economy being good because of its war machine. They also want wars as an excuse to delay elections, at no point have they been subtle about this.
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Did they ever claim not to be?
Yes, extensively.
I remember a few tweets floating around of the base cheering Trump as antiwar. Specifically around the
4632 wars he “stopped”. But if you go further back to his past presidency you get the pro war sentiment again. So really just pick a date and it could go either way.MAGA and Republicans will repeat whatever propaganda the Orange Leader commands like good little boot-licking sheep. Logic and principles play no role in their words and actions. And don’t tell them they’re in a cult!
Wouldn’t it be a miracle if enough Republicans grew a pair of gonads to stand up to the Grifter in Chief over this or any of his other evil actions (like releasing the full and unredacted Epstein files)?
That would literally be miraculous, authoritarian followers have very strong tendencies to compartmentalise their beliefs, ignore leader hypocrisy, and justify violence against outgroups.
Goddamn war criminals and a country full of pathetic cowards who are too weak to put a stop to their criminal mafia regime. Absolutely disgusting!
Some of us are voting progressive and protesting/boycotting at every opportunity while still trying to make a wage to live on so I dont really appreciate the global hate. I get it, but I dont appreciate it. (edit: spelling)
I just wonder what else it will take for your obviously criminal president to be removed from office.
I mean, you are ruled by organized crime: the state not only protects a pedophile ring, but makes it possible in the first place; you invade sovereign states; your elite enriches itself to an unprecedented extent at the expense of the citizens; and masked thugs roam the country, randomly attacking people with the wrong skin color. And these are just some of the completely obvious crimes committed by your government.
I realize that there are many opponents of this regime, but the fact remains: your pedophile president and his henchmen are getting away with whatever they do because there is no serious resistance, such as a general strike. Individual days when people take to the streets will not be enough to put an end to this, because your media is controlled by those who have been shamelessly exploiting your people for a long time. And yet: US citizens are putting up with it – I don’t even want to imagine what it will take for Americans to finally throw off their yoke.
I’m sorry to have to say it in such broad terms, and I am aware that there is resistance, but your regime not only exploits US citizens, it is a danger to the entire world.
So you’d be one of the first people to pick up a gun and die at the hands of your government?
It’s easy to shit on people just trying to survive when you’re not in their situation.
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.
They would die if they rebelled - you wouldn’t
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 no protests in Russia
We are nation of laws, and we still have a few legal steps to go through, including the 2026 Midterm election, and the 2028 election. Both of those elections give the Democrats the legal authority to take back America. If they do, hopefully they act decisively, and don’t totally squander the opportunity, like Biden did, destroying his legacy.
If MAGA prevents those elections, or refuses to recognize the results, then they have gone off-Constitution, and it’s on. When it becomes clear to citizens that MAGA has fully rejected any pretense of honoring or respecting the law, Democracy, and the Constitution, there WILL be serious repercussions, almost certainly violent.
There is a 50-50 chance that we get out of this through elections, IF Dems actually use their elected power to fully crush MAGA mercilessly. If they don’t, then it will take violence, and that will come eventually and inevitably.
I Hope you are right. And I Hope we survive Till midterms… Crossing fingers.
They are already off-constitution with all of their deportations, etc. What makes you think people will do something in 2026 when they aren’t doing anything now?
The mask is off, people are just too afraid to look it in the face and call it what it is. Democracy is over, and the fascists won, for now. If we want it to be short term, we need to start organizing and preparing for armed resistance.
If the Dems can control one of the Congressional chambers, they will control investigatory powers, including subpoena power and arrest powers. That would blunt his legislation, and would force his henchmen to account for their crimes.
That is, IF the Democratic leadership do their jobs, which only has about a 10% chance of happening, unless the new people coming in after the 2026 bloodbath start immediately throwing their weight around, and force the old guard to honor their Constitutional responsibilities. If they won’t, we will treat the Establishment Democrats exactly the same as MAGA.
You’re still operating under the assumption that there will be fair and free elections in November. That is not their plan.
It’s MUCH harder to rig a Congressional election than a presidential election. In a presidential election, you only have to rig one race, in a handful of swing states.
To rig a Congressional election, you have to rig a lot more elections, over 400 districts. Even if you remove the solid Red and solid Blue districts, and only count on those that might swing either way, it would still probably be better than 100 elections, which will be overseen by locals.
That’s why they are trying to game the TOTAL number of districts, rather than the individual races. Unfortunately for them, they’ve been getting pushback from the courts, while inspiring California to fight fire with fire, and redraw their own , and do it legally. Their greedy duplicitous mess may well backfire against them. MAGA only has a very narrow lead right now. If any more MAGAs resign before election day, the House may flip even before the election. California adding five more Blue seats, could easily make the difference, and flip the House to the Democrats.
Then they have to govern responsibly and courageously, which they’ve almost never done in the past.
Well, that remains to be seen. To be honest, I can’t imagine anyone being prosecuted for their crimes, even with the best will in the world. I’m not a U.S. citizen, but from a distance, it looks to me as if your systems are infiltrated to a degree that they no longer function properly - starting with the fact that the Democrats are merely the lesser of two evils, to the fact that your law enforcement system, even under their control, actively protects child molesters, if not actually empowering them to commit their crimes, to the fact that your highest legal authority, the Supreme Court, is so obviously corrupt that it places the president above the law in a supposedly democratic country, which is completely incompatible with any democratic constitution.
Of course, I’m rooting for you, but I think it’s naive to put your faith in a system that has proven time and again that it represents the interests of the powerful rather than those of the people. The proof of this is the fact that large sections of the population in the richest country in the world have to live as if they were in a third world country - for a European like me, it is incomprehensible how one can not only allow this, but also approve of it.
Edit: Just to illustrate what I mean: if your legal system worked even halfway properly, your president would have gone to prison long before he became president - he has committed so many serious crimes that it is more than telling that he was not already sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1990s.
The Dems blew it badly during the Biden administration, and they either learned their lesson, or they didn’t. They better have learned their lesson, because they only have the next two elections to turn this around, and if they don’t, then America is finished.
I’m always hoping for the best, but if we keep going in the same direction, with the same proven losing strategies, then the future belongs to MAGA. This will be the final opportunity to save America, and Dems have to step up. There are those who are willing, let’s see if the Dem leadership can grow a spine and support them.
As I said, I’m keeping my fingers crossed, but when you consider how the progressive wing of the Democrats is demonized by their own people, even though it’s so obvious that the people want these policies, I have very little hope.
Just to illustrate how difficult it is for a European to understand the US mentality: Sanders, AOC, and Mamdani would be moderate center-left politicians in Europe, not at all “extremists” as they are apparently portrayed in the US.
We have two serious foundational issues in our nation that must be addressed, or we will never move beyond where we are right now.
The first is what you referred to: the Conservative Propaganda Machine, which is an amazingly effective operation. They brutally abuse the First Amendment, knowing it is difficult to regulate it, but that is exactly what we have to do. The Conservative Propaganda Machine operates entirely in bad faith, and is the mouthpiece for MAGA, a domestic terrorist organization, and this nation’s biggest national security threat. Under those circumstances, MAGA’s dissemination of disingenuous speech can be controlled.
The second is Campaign Finance Reform, which is the issue from which ALL other issues flow. It allows Sociopathic Oligarchs to control our government through legal bribery and corruption by BOTH sides. We must reconfigure our entire election system so that it filters OUT the worst and most corrupt candidates, instead of washing out our most responsible candidates by bad-faith, disingenuous campaign rhetoric.
As long as those two situations remain in force, we will always have problems with the worst of our nation gaining power. We have to put ALL candidates on equal, fair footing, so the best candidates can be elevated to positions of RESPONSIBILITY, and keep criminals and traitors from gaming our system to gain power to exploit our nation.
Unfortunately, voting has never been an effective way to channel political power. Without serious organization behind them, voters are as easy to disregard as farts in the wind.
If you feel powerless, find or make a group within your community who can band together to amplify your voices. Groups get attention, while individuals - even seas of individuals like the No Kings protests - get ignored.
You’re literally not doing enough.
Thanks, very helpful
Your meme would hit harder if they were so desperately trying to stop people from voting.
At some point we will have to pick up pitchforks.
Unfortunately, I’m afraid that this point will never come - and that’s why I’m pissed off. I don’t think anyone can complain about that, because you are represented by a criminal, a rapist even.
In fact, I think you should see that something is being done as soon as possible, because it is obvious that your regime is in the process of establishing a totalitarian state - and then you will have to reckon with repressive measures like in Russia. Why do you think ICE has a budget that corresponds to the military spending of a medium-sized country? Well, it’s obviously a secret police force that will soon no longer be harassing only foreigners.
I’m sorry to be so blunt, but no one other than the US citizens themselves can eliminate this plague, because you have an invincible army and nuclear weapons - all in the hands of that orange monster and his ruthless henchmen.
you are represented by a criminal, a rapist even.
And a pedophile. And a murderer. And he pees and poops himself.
Yes, unfortunately, it is hardly possible to list everything that disqualifies this inhuman being, so I have limited myself to criminal and rapist. Oh, what about the more than $400 million he still owes the state of New York for massive financial fraud, for which he should have gone to prison for decades? Never mind, I’m getting carried away again with details of his criminal career…
As a matter of fact, it turns out that it is NOT impossible, it just takes a long time to say:
Granted, that one and its twin list only cover trump’s two terms in office, but it’s a start.
Hopefully Venezuela can finally recall all of their nuclear engineers and astronauts that came to our countries to increase the crime with their Caribbean vibes
Boycott anything from the US. Hit the billionaires in their pockets. That’s what’s driving this.
Is he still the non-interventionist candidate? /s
He’s looking for that Nobel peace prize of 2026.
I’m sure he’s front runner for the 2026 FIFA peace prize.
I mean, they already gave one to the person who is going to give Trump all Venezuela’s oil.
It does seem to be a prize given by the oil industry at this point, and has been for decades.
Is he angry with Putin?
I hate Trump. But I have a friend in Venezuela. It’s been hell for him and his family the last couple years. Maduro and his “elites” controlled the country and caused massive poverty to its citizens. This is the best news of hope he can’t stop talking about. Maybe it’s reading it on the news that gives us our biased opinions but for someone who is living there in the hell caused by Maduro and his group this is the best news you can imagine.
Let’s see what they insert instead of Maduro. Wouldn’t have high Hopes with their historic choices of candidates for their own government…
The peace prize lady. The people of Vzla won’t like that though. This is the start of a lot of unrest.
Seems Trump has ruled out Machado: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5671488-trump-machado-venezuela-opposition-leader/
No surprise he backstabbed her already 🤣🤣🤣she served whatever purpose and has been discarded already.
Someone willing to give American companies favorable access to their oil reserves. Their politics don’t matter.
This. We are not invading Venezuela because we are trying to fix their problems… we are doing so to control their oil. Why would the politics matter? Oil is king.
I think that’s a fair perspective - though I am certainly concerned about Trump starting wars without going through congress, as well as the precedent this sets for invading other countries without cause. (Granted, historically, the US has done both, but that doesn’t make it right). Additionally, this could just mean Venezuela swaps out this dictator for a US-friendly dictator.
This is the equivalent of letting homelander kill the mafia boss in your town. Unfortunately he’s not leaving soon and will cause a lot more damage before this is all done.
Exactly. I can understand being glad the mafia boss is dead, but it’s a “change in management” not liberation
The street level opinion coming out of Venezuela largely seems to be “fuck Maduro but fuck America too”
“I have a friend in Iraq. It’s been hell for him and his family the last couple of years. Hussein and his “elites” controlled the country and caused massive poverty to its citizens”
You guys are fucking laughable, “every US invasion is bad except the current one”. I can’t believe the Iraq playbook still fucking works on you
What? I’m not ok with any of this I’m remarking on the fact that people in Venezuela are celebrating. There are more people in this world than us you know.
For every supposed “Venezuelan celebrating in Venezuela” there are ten frightened that their country is being invaded. Maduro was democratically elected by the people of Venezuela, the majority literally want him there.
You’re wrong on that. I haven’t heard any Venezuelan claim Maduro was elected. He cemented his seat in power after the last election where he clearly lost. So stop making things up for your own optics.
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-maduro-stole-venezuelas-vote/
The Bolivarian revolution counted with the wide support of the people since its inception, and this support only dwindled recently because of extreme economic sanctions by the US. The Bolivarian revolution therefore has the popular support of the people until the sanctions are lifted and the Venezuelan people can carry out free elections free from external interference.
“I have a friend in the US. It’s been hell for him and his family the last couple of years. Trump and his “elites” controlled the country and caused massive poverty to its citizens”
It works both ways. Would you be making these same arguments if Canada had kidnapped Trump?
It’s a little different since American democracy is supposed to be a lot more stable than Venezuela. But if the election was clearly stolen (imagine trump running for a 3rd term), and then he was removed by another country after deliberations with the opposing leadership here, then yeah kinda. It’d be terrifying. But the guy who stole our country’s leadership, the one running and ruining our lives has been removed. What comes after, what deals were made with the devil, that’s all terrifying. And the people in Venezuela are holding their breath.
Yeah no doubt this will rough for Venezuelans. I just take issue with people suddenly pretending that one of Trump’s fellow world dictators is somehow a good guy simply because Trump did another awful thing. This is the same logic these people use to defend neoliberal Democrats that are the reason we’re stuck with Trump in the first place and I’m sick of it.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Or something like that. Trump is no one’s friend. But neither is Maduro.
“Support the troops” and “Thank you for your service” is cringe af. Like you do know what the troops are doing, right? I can’t remember a time they defended their country. It’s all invasions and coups for their capitalist masters who deny you if you are the wrong color or poor. Which is most of the people. The whole system must change. I say remove US and israel from world market until the new generations show some respect.
