#Tag
Trump versus Venezuela. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#US regime change wars are reliably disastrous, & are always justified based on lies. This would be true even if #Venezuela really was a major #drug trafficking threat & even if #Maduro really was the world’s most evil #dictator, neither of which are the case.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-regime-change-interventionism
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist
Trump versus Venezuela. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#US regime change wars are reliably disastrous, & are always justified based on lies. This would be true even if #Venezuela really was a major #drug trafficking threat & even if #Maduro really was the world’s most evil #dictator, neither of which are the case.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-regime-change-interventionism
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist
Il #Venezuela ha liberato dopo pochi mesi un ostaggio francese. Il poro Alberto #Trentini invece è prigioniero da più di un anno perché i fascisti al governo non hanno nessuna intenzione di indispettire Trump legittimando il regime per salvare una zecca cooperante, mentre a sinistra quasi nessuno fa nemmeno una minima pressione perché vorrebbe dire ammettere che #Maduro è un autocrate e un pezzo di merda e allora decenni di seghe su chavismo e socialismo del xxi secolo dove le mettiamo?
Il #Venezuela ha liberato dopo pochi mesi un ostaggio francese. Il poro Alberto #Trentini invece è prigioniero da più di un anno perché i fascisti al governo non hanno nessuna intenzione di indispettire Trump legittimando il regime per salvare una zecca cooperante, mentre a sinistra quasi nessuno fa nemmeno una minima pressione perché vorrebbe dire ammettere che #Maduro è un autocrate e un pezzo di merda e allora decenni di seghe su chavismo e socialismo del xxi secolo dove le mettiamo?
Operation Southern Spear(ed)
from @katzonearth [he doesn't post here, mostly only on his Substack-hosted blog sadly]
> While Americans have spent the last 24 hours justifiably focused on Trump's exposure in the #epsteinFiles, the president has been increasingly engaged in another dangerous flirtation: with yet another war. The supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group are nearing Venezuela, capping off the most significant U.S. military escalation in Latin America since the 1994 U.S. invasion of Haiti. Venezuelan President Nicolás #Maduro has mobilized an estimated 200,000 troops in hopes of staving off regime change. Trump, meanwhile, keeps treating the #Caribbean as his personal shooting gallery, with the death toll from missile strikes on civilian boats he accuses (without offering evidence) of drug smuggling now reaching eighty.
Not just the hey please stop talking about Epstein Files. It's also such an astonishingly major coincidence! that at least three of the countries where Don has begun or is clearly threatening to start wars, all using concocted false pretexts - #Venezuela, #Nigeria, and #Iran - are ALL OIL EXPORTERS.
#hegemony #plunder #feudalism #mercantilism #conquest #colonialism #imperialism #CIA #CIAwars #invasionPretext #invasion #warCrime #invasions #destabilization #CIAinvasions
https://theracket.news/p/operation-southern-spear-ed
Operation Southern Spear(ed)
from @katzonearth [he doesn't post here, mostly only on his Substack-hosted blog sadly]
> While Americans have spent the last 24 hours justifiably focused on Trump's exposure in the #epsteinFiles, the president has been increasingly engaged in another dangerous flirtation: with yet another war. The supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group are nearing Venezuela, capping off the most significant U.S. military escalation in Latin America since the 1994 U.S. invasion of Haiti. Venezuelan President Nicolás #Maduro has mobilized an estimated 200,000 troops in hopes of staving off regime change. Trump, meanwhile, keeps treating the #Caribbean as his personal shooting gallery, with the death toll from missile strikes on civilian boats he accuses (without offering evidence) of drug smuggling now reaching eighty.
Not just the hey please stop talking about Epstein Files. It's also such an astonishingly major coincidence! that at least three of the countries where Don has begun or is clearly threatening to start wars, all using concocted false pretexts - #Venezuela, #Nigeria, and #Iran - are ALL OIL EXPORTERS.
#hegemony #plunder #feudalism #mercantilism #conquest #colonialism #imperialism #CIA #CIAwars #invasionPretext #invasion #warCrime #invasions #destabilization #CIAinvasions
https://theracket.news/p/operation-southern-spear-ed
A US aircraft carrier strike group arrived in the #LatinAmerica region on Tuesday, escalating a military buildup that Venezuela has warned could trigger a full-blown conflict. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Brian Finucane, Senior Adviser for the US Programme at the International Crisis Group, says that the Trump administration is using 'a rhetoric of counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics to cloak a regime-change programme'.
#Venezuela #Trump #Maduro #war
Venezuela Mobilizes Military as US Aircraft Carrier Approaches
“The only reason to move it there is to use it against Venezuela,” said one policy expert of the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/venezuelas-military
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Nov 12, 2025
White House officials have sought to walk back #Trump’s repeated threats against #Venezuela in recent days—even as the Department of Defense has continue to strike boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific—but officials in the South American country on Tuesday took the arrival of a #US aircraft carrier in the region seriously despite the administration’s claims that it won’t target Venezuela directly.
As the USS Gerald R. Ford entered waters near #LatinAmerica, accompanied by three warships, Venezuela’s #defense minister said its entire #military arsenal had been placed on “full operational readiness,” with President #Maduro ordering the deployment of nearly 200,000 soldiers.
A US aircraft carrier strike group arrived in the #LatinAmerica region on Tuesday, escalating a military buildup that Venezuela has warned could trigger a full-blown conflict. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Brian Finucane, Senior Adviser for the US Programme at the International Crisis Group, says that the Trump administration is using 'a rhetoric of counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics to cloak a regime-change programme'.
#Venezuela #Trump #Maduro #war
Venezuela Mobilizes Military as US Aircraft Carrier Approaches
“The only reason to move it there is to use it against Venezuela,” said one policy expert of the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/venezuelas-military
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Nov 12, 2025
White House officials have sought to walk back #Trump’s repeated threats against #Venezuela in recent days—even as the Department of Defense has continue to strike boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific—but officials in the South American country on Tuesday took the arrival of a #US aircraft carrier in the region seriously despite the administration’s claims that it won’t target Venezuela directly.
As the USS Gerald R. Ford entered waters near #LatinAmerica, accompanied by three warships, Venezuela’s #defense minister said its entire #military arsenal had been placed on “full operational readiness,” with President #Maduro ordering the deployment of nearly 200,000 soldiers.
#Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on #Venezuela
President Trump has yet to make a decision, but his advisers are pressing a range of objectives — from attacking drug cartels to seizing oil fields — to try to justify ousting Nicolás #Maduro
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/trump-weighs-attacks-venezuela.html
unpaywalled: https://archive.is/wyAWS
#Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on #Venezuela
President Trump has yet to make a decision, but his advisers are pressing a range of objectives — from attacking drug cartels to seizing oil fields — to try to justify ousting Nicolás #Maduro
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/trump-weighs-attacks-venezuela.html
unpaywalled: https://archive.is/wyAWS
This is why you need to go to #Congress to attack other nations!
As #US ramps up the pressure, #Venezuela pleads with Moscow for help
Documents show #Maduro drafted letter asking #Russia for missiles, radars & upgraded aircraft as US forces amass in the #Caribbean.
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
