Quote from: Jet Cash on September 03, 2025, 02:26:05 PM

[...] Donald Trump probably want to kill this destructive trade. Hopefully the war that is developing is against the trafficking of drugs, and not against the people of Venezuela.

This is the dumbest thing I read in this post.

The US cannot win the war on drugs, because the "enemy" is their own citizens taking drugs. Nobody sells if nobody buys. If they kill one narco, another takes the place as simple as that.

But you are living in the 80s if you think that drugs need to be exported from Venezuela. Read about Fentanyl.

Trumps knows all this, as he perfectly understands what means to control oil.

Quote from: zenaku on September 01, 2025, 09:10:19 PM

The United States won’t do anything, simply because its economy is busted. Is it viable to go in, remove Mr. Nicolay Madurai (Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela)?
– In the short term, yes, but in the long term, NO.

I don’t think Donald Trump would take that step, because China is intervening discreetly. China has interests in Venezuela, in Colombia, and in general, China is interested in Latin America.
With that in mind, what the United States is doing is spreading its wings, drawing attention, saying: “Look at me! I’m ultra-powerful, whoever doesn’t obey me I’ll crush,” but it can’t. People don’t believe it anymore, and the U.S. is in bad shape internally — it would be like shooting itself in the foot.

Let me give you some historical context:
In 1970 Venezuela was known as Saudi Venezuela, because it was the best country in the Americas. Everyone wanted to go there, especially after WWII. It was a cosmopolitan country that hosted many cultures and had a very strong economy. Look it up on Google: the Maracaibo Bridge.

But let’s land in the year 1999, when a military man named Hugo Chávez came to power — an opponent of the United States, of Israel, and with leftist leanings. A man who insulted the “gringos” more than once, he became known as the president of expropriations. Later, he would die of cancer.

Chávez was a president like all others, with successes and mistakes, but his greatest mistake was picking a fight with the U.S. Right after his death, Nicolás Maduro took over, but the United States took advantage of the fact that President Maduro lacks historical knowledge — Nicolás was a bus driver…

Then came the pressure, the worst inflation ever seen, lines everywhere, sabotaged healthcare, sabotaged economy — the same story that Pooya87 told…
So, the typical U.S. invasion “for freedom” — but it’s not going to happen.

The next scene: Petro throws Maduro a lifeline.
Petro is the president of Colombia, the first social democrat in 200 years, and he has strengthened relations with Maduro. It seems he will support him, but not economically or anything like that — he’s just showing solidarity, because it’s harsh that the U.S. keeps buying influence…

And so on, the U.S. pressuring, arming society for overthrows. But there’s something I don’t understand: if the minimum wage in Venezuela is 1 dollar, how do people eat? How do they pay for water, electricity? Or is the state paternalistic and subsidizes everything, even if the citizens don’t accept it?

Yep, reducing China influence is also kind of a good reason. Telling China, you can invest in Panama, Venezuela, wherever... the moment we decide, we take it.