Like, CIA troops are fighting Pentagon troops in Syria. Suppression of the political opposition and creeping hard power is being carried out by local police departments and unions. The historectomies in ICE camps were being carried out by a rogue contractor. It doesn't even feel like a movement so much as the aggregate effort of thousands of disparate forces.

  • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Not only his failure to take direction on Venezuela :vuvuzela: but he actually cut funding to the color revolution fund and has been deporting CIA propagandists that are in the country to work at RFA/RFE/RL. Like he's not just refusing to re-up their visas, he's literally blocking them from getting any kind of visa and in some cases revoking their current ones lmao. That plus the fact that he fucking hates NATO puts him in the cross hairs of the more imperialistic strata of Capital.

      • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        The one thing I'm surprised by is the oil industry isn't deserting him because of the Venezuela situation. I'd assume our oil companies want to loot their oil reserves.

          • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
            ·
            4 years ago

            Yeah the Imperialist machine has come to an impasse where the only real targets left are extremely daunting hard targets, but Venezuela is for sure the weakest. The Imperial apparatus wants Venezuela, Iran, Russia and the grand prize China. All of these will result in massive casualties and destabilization. Unfortunately though I think in Venezuela the mass casualties would mostly be Venezuelans. They'd just use iron fisted fascism to rule it.

            • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
              ·
              4 years ago

              Given all the militias, the broad base of support, the loyalty of the military, and the support from Russia et al., I don't think we'd be able to beat Venezuela even in an all-out war. I think it would be another Vietnam.

              • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
                ·
                4 years ago

                It would absolutely be another Vietnam. I don't think we would get our hands dirty though. We'd give the Brazilians and Colombians a bunch of fancy weaponry, block any info from leaving the country and let them completely smash the population into submission. Like indiscriminate bombing of collectivos, burning crops, trying to starve people into submission etc.

          • Saif [he/him]
            ·
            4 years ago

            Sorry if this is a stupid question, what doe MIC stand for?

    • emizeko [they/them]
      ·
      4 years ago

      where can I read more about this visa shit, that sounds hilarious. comrade Trump strikes again

      • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        It's honestly one of the funniest occurrences in Trump's accidental anti-imperialism https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/24/trump-open-technology-fund-hong-kong-belarus-iran

        • emizeko [they/them]
          ·
          4 years ago

          this is amazing. the dumbass nationalist faction is eating the lunch of the international capital faction, Matt has talked about this split in the GOP on the vlogs

          • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
            ·
            4 years ago

            The contradictions of the American Bourgeoisie are wild rn. I think it's more complex than small holders vs big capital but that is part of it. You have heavy industry like oil & gas, mining, construction that often is very big money, in Coalition with the petit bourgeois small property holders against a liberal coalition of tech, finance, and urban PMC interests. It's gotten to the point that they basically can't peacefully coexist. One of them has to dominate the other.

            • emizeko [they/them]
              ·
              4 years ago

              yeah I edited it to nationalist because I think that captures the mindset better but your coalition comment is more material and explanatory

              • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
                ·
                4 years ago

                Yeah I mean it's definitely a part of it though. The petit bourgeois is always extremely reactionary, and they're definitely a major part of their axis of evil lol. I remember Matt doing an episode of History as a Weapon with the Antifada or maybe it was inebriated past I don't remember, but it was about how the Democratic and Republican party have become ideologically distinct and conflicting and the only real resolution is a reordering of society. He was basically right though he didn't go too deep into the material analysis of it to explain why. I think we are really seen ng it come to a head.

                The question we have on the left Is what do we do if shit pops off? The most likely scenario would be different state security forces would clash and there would be a very different kind of civil war. Probably something not too unlike the Syrian Civil war. Personally if this happens I think we should enter into a United Front with the libs and take up arms against the chuds, while refusing to be controlled. If we could finesse that into getting arms and funding, we could be in a good place to turn a civil war into a revolution.

                Then again, none of this could happen and the military, cops and DHS could all side together and just impose full blown fascism lol.