After seeing what has occured in Iran, I’m even more convinced that the Venezuelan leadership’s actions are extremely logical for a socialist project.
Venezuela has none of the capacity to threaten US assets like Iran does, nor do they have one of the best multi-layered millitary apparatuses like the IRGC and Iranian military. They don’t have the ability to build that infrastructure in a timely matter and never have since the mainland US is only separated by the Gulf of Mexico. Any attempt to build that kind of defense architecture would immediately lead to the US bombing the entire country, since a ballistic missile system poses a tbreat to the US mainland and can be marketed as such to the US population. There is nothing stopping the US from never invading and just air striking the country unimpeded. There’s no ally to Venezuela to aid them in that scenario eitheir so all would he accomplished is that the Venezuelan people die while the bolivarian revolution is blamed for the state of affairs.
Venezuela doesn’t have a resource that can be sold easily outside of to the US. Venezuelan oil is famously sour, being described as tar like, with the only major infrastructure for refining it existing in California from Chevron. Venezuela doesn’t have a geographic fixture that could hold up the global economy like the straight of Hormuz eitheir.
What exactly is stopping the US from carpet bombing the entire country until the Boliviaruan revolution eitheir Buckles or the revolution is set back decades to a point that’s worse off then when Chavez took power.
I seriously fear to live under the kind of revolution that some western “Communists” would construct. Because if their takeaway from Venezuela is that Delcy Rodriguez should risk her country being reduced to rubble without any possible gain, rather than take measures to circumvent that possibility in a strategic retreat, then I must say they’ve completely failed to analyze the material realities of Venezuela and the US.
I’m not going to ask Venezuelans to die defending the international proletarian struggle while residing in the country murdering them just so I can feel inspired by their martyrdom. Venezuela is playing a careful and dangerous game because that’s unfortunately the hand they’ve been dealt by the US.
The US left is still in the phase of thinking reformism and bourgeois politics will achieve some kind of lasting change, and until this faith in bourgeois politics fades from the majority of US leftists, they won’t be able to mount meaningful opposition to the US plunder of Venezuela. Venezuela can’t depend on this shift accelerating at a pace that allows the Bolivarian revolution more breathing room.
Oh wow, thank you for sharing this perspective. When I was thinking about revolution, I was thinking about getting rid of Rubio. You make cogent and supurb points.
As we see the empire draining their missiles in Iran, do you foresee the situation in Venezuela changing in the next year or two?
After seeing what has occured in Iran, I’m even more convinced that the Venezuelan leadership’s actions are extremely logical for a socialist project.
Venezuela has none of the capacity to threaten US assets like Iran does, nor do they have one of the best multi-layered millitary apparatuses like the IRGC and Iranian military. They don’t have the ability to build that infrastructure in a timely matter and never have since the mainland US is only separated by the Gulf of Mexico. Any attempt to build that kind of defense architecture would immediately lead to the US bombing the entire country, since a ballistic missile system poses a tbreat to the US mainland and can be marketed as such to the US population. There is nothing stopping the US from never invading and just air striking the country unimpeded. There’s no ally to Venezuela to aid them in that scenario eitheir so all would he accomplished is that the Venezuelan people die while the bolivarian revolution is blamed for the state of affairs.
Venezuela doesn’t have a resource that can be sold easily outside of to the US. Venezuelan oil is famously sour, being described as tar like, with the only major infrastructure for refining it existing in California from Chevron. Venezuela doesn’t have a geographic fixture that could hold up the global economy like the straight of Hormuz eitheir.
What exactly is stopping the US from carpet bombing the entire country until the Boliviaruan revolution eitheir Buckles or the revolution is set back decades to a point that’s worse off then when Chavez took power.
I seriously fear to live under the kind of revolution that some western “Communists” would construct. Because if their takeaway from Venezuela is that Delcy Rodriguez should risk her country being reduced to rubble without any possible gain, rather than take measures to circumvent that possibility in a strategic retreat, then I must say they’ve completely failed to analyze the material realities of Venezuela and the US.
I’m not going to ask Venezuelans to die defending the international proletarian struggle while residing in the country murdering them just so I can feel inspired by their martyrdom. Venezuela is playing a careful and dangerous game because that’s unfortunately the hand they’ve been dealt by the US.
The US left is still in the phase of thinking reformism and bourgeois politics will achieve some kind of lasting change, and until this faith in bourgeois politics fades from the majority of US leftists, they won’t be able to mount meaningful opposition to the US plunder of Venezuela. Venezuela can’t depend on this shift accelerating at a pace that allows the Bolivarian revolution more breathing room.
Oh wow, thank you for sharing this perspective. When I was thinking about revolution, I was thinking about getting rid of Rubio. You make cogent and supurb points.
As we see the empire draining their missiles in Iran, do you foresee the situation in Venezuela changing in the next year or two?