• cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    14 days ago

    China and Russia both sell natural resources to the US. Venezuela’s gold reserves were stolen, not given away.

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      14 days ago

      China and Russia both sell natural resources to the US.

      And the revenue of those resources goes to China and Russia. Meanwhile this is what happens with the Venezuelan oil revenue 👇

      Again, not the gotcha you think it is.

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          13 days ago

          That Venezuela is in the same economic position as occupied Iraq after the invasion, with their oil funds being controlled by America, and they will have to act in the same comprador manner due to this leverage (IE, Aligning with empire against anti-imperialists in their region - hence we see Venezuela turning against Cuba and towards USA/Israel just like we see the comprador Iraqi government aligning against Iran).

          USA got the same outcome as the invasion of Iraq with a single kidnapping operation. Complete success, and they don’t try to hide it. Their glee is palpable, it led them into the Iran War because they were so high on their own easy victory. But unlike Venezuela, Iran has teeth and was seriously preparing its defenses against the imperialists.

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                12 days ago

                The most accurate sign of a state being comprador is random libs. If they suddenly start praising a state they had no idea existed a week ago, it’s over. But if they say “socialism bad because venezuela”, like they usually do, the revolution is intact.

                I haven’t seen random libs praise venezuela.

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                  Random libs don’t like Venezuela because they see it cozying up to Drumpf and victory for him, they love that Venezuela has been de facto annexed, they just hate that it wasn’t them that did it in a respectable “legal” way