Via a law announced Tuesday, Venezuela will create a new province or state in the disputed territory, having already appointed a single provisional authority: Major-General Alexis Rodríguez Cabello
No I think Venezuela has reasons to be angry but this situation, I just think them getting embroiled in a hot war over it seems like a bad idea for both them and the people of Guyana. Fuck Exxon but I don’t think ignighting a revanchist conflict is really going to combat US imperialism in the region, if anything it’s a boon for them.
The alternative to doing something about it is just to sit there and have reasons to be angry but nevertheless allow a US-backed corporation take the oil, which they will then use later on in their own war machines when they decide it’s time to invade venezuela. Which means giving Amerikkka leverage for its future atrocities in order to have a moral high ground in the present. Amerikkka is never going to take the moral high ground and not meddle in a region. Kuwait slant drilled into Iraq before desert storm. People imply the embattled underdogs are obligated to performatively adhere to whatever morally palatable option has the best optics, while the overdog is assumed to always behave ruthless sociopath who will take advantage of any mercy it is given. It’s not like Venezuela is going to get good boy points for not doing anything. Amerikkka would still have screeched to the high heavens that Venezuela is an authoritarian regime even if they did nothing about this. Because that’s what the US has been doing since Hugo Chavez.
I think the US is opening too many proxy wars at once and can’t afford to juggle them all. Guyana, Taiwan, Ukraine, Israel. How many client regimes can the US juggle at once? If they fight back instead of just letting it happen, America might actually drop the ball. Its imperial positions can be lost by overextending itself and receiving more resistance than it reckoned it would. That’s part of the reason for centering the anti-imperialist conversation on morality and not strategy. Because if the underdog adheres to a moral code that the overdog has no intention of obeying, then the overdog can always corner the underdog into a losing strategy, by taking advantage of the fact that the underdog’s options are limited and more predictable due to its moral code.
I still don’t see this ending well but perhaps I’m wrong.
Neither do I. I’m just not going to not act surprised when people are so fed up with the US’s shit that they start behaving atrociously to make it stop.
At the end of the day I’m just some asshole on the internet so it’s not like I have any power to influence any player’s decision here.
Agreed. (not that you’re an asshole, but that we don’t have power here)
there’s very little to be happy about, comrade. I agree. Between all these escalating conflicts and climate change, I have my doubts about the future of the human species.
No I think Venezuela has reasons to be angry but this situation, I just think them getting embroiled in a hot war over it seems like a bad idea for both them and the people of Guyana. Fuck Exxon but I don’t think ignighting a revanchist conflict is really going to combat US imperialism in the region, if anything it’s a boon for them.
The alternative to doing something about it is just to sit there and have reasons to be angry but nevertheless allow a US-backed corporation take the oil, which they will then use later on in their own war machines when they decide it’s time to invade venezuela. Which means giving Amerikkka leverage for its future atrocities in order to have a moral high ground in the present. Amerikkka is never going to take the moral high ground and not meddle in a region. Kuwait slant drilled into Iraq before desert storm. People imply the embattled underdogs are obligated to performatively adhere to whatever morally palatable option has the best optics, while the overdog is assumed to always behave ruthless sociopath who will take advantage of any mercy it is given. It’s not like Venezuela is going to get good boy points for not doing anything. Amerikkka would still have screeched to the high heavens that Venezuela is an authoritarian regime even if they did nothing about this. Because that’s what the US has been doing since Hugo Chavez.
I think the US is opening too many proxy wars at once and can’t afford to juggle them all. Guyana, Taiwan, Ukraine, Israel. How many client regimes can the US juggle at once? If they fight back instead of just letting it happen, America might actually drop the ball. Its imperial positions can be lost by overextending itself and receiving more resistance than it reckoned it would. That’s part of the reason for centering the anti-imperialist conversation on morality and not strategy. Because if the underdog adheres to a moral code that the overdog has no intention of obeying, then the overdog can always corner the underdog into a losing strategy, by taking advantage of the fact that the underdog’s options are limited and more predictable due to its moral code.
I still don’t see this ending well but perhaps I’m wrong.
At the end of the day I’m just some asshole on the internet so it’s not like I have any power to influence any player’s decision here.
Neither do I. I’m just not going to not act surprised when people are so fed up with the US’s shit that they start behaving atrociously to make it stop.
Agreed. (not that you’re an asshole, but that we don’t have power here)
Half the people in this thread seem to think I am.
i just respond directly to what people say almost never look at usernames unless I suspect trolling
I’m honestly mostly just frustrated with this situation. I’m unhappy it’s happening, maybe it’s necessary, but still sucks.
there’s very little to be happy about, comrade. I agree. Between all these escalating conflicts and climate change, I have my doubts about the future of the human species.