CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. The government accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations in multiple states.
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Venezuela’s government, in the statement, called on its supporters to take to the streets.
“People to the streets!” the statement said. “The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack.”
The statement added that President Nicolás Maduro had “ordered all national defense plans to be implemented” and declared “a state of external disturbance.” That state of emergency gives him the power to suspend people’s rights and expand the role of the armed forces.
So you’d be one of the first people to pick up a gun and die at the hands of your government?
It’s easy to shit on people just trying to survive when you’re not in their situation.
Ask the people in Russia. They would die if they rebelled - you wouldn’t, but I’m pretty sure that it will soon be the same for you if you don’t manage to organize serious resistance while you still can.
When I read comments like this, I have little hope that US citizens will manage to shake off their apathy. It is what it is. If you don’t help yourselves, things will only continue to go downhill, as they have for decades - whether you like it or not is irrelevant. It is simply a fact, and it will not help you in any way to blame anyone but yourselves. Other countries cannot intervene because the US is too powerful. We in Europe have our own battles to fight, and I must say that it disgusts me that our politicians still support your mafia state. And if you ask me, yes, I would rather die than accept that my homeland is falling back into fascism. I’m from Germany, and here we know what that means. That’s why we have to find a way to break away from US social media platforms, for example, which are a major factor when it comes to poisoning people’s minds with Nazi propaganda here.
The US does not stand for freedom or any of the other narratives that still seem to impress you. Today, the US is one of humanity’s most significant problems - and that is because US citizens are unable to fight for their own interests. If you think you deserve sympathy, I cannot agree with you. Yes, it is certainly not an easy fight, but it is one that you must fight yourselves. Since you are not doing so to the extent necessary to achieve anything, the other countries of the world have little choice but to turn away - if it were up to me, I would swallow the bitter pill and accept all the economic disadvantages that await us if we turn away from your corrupt state. However, that will not happen because your elite also has our politicians in its pocket - but that is our problem; I would suggest you take care of yours so we might be able to once again work together.