US ATTACKS VENEZUELAN CAPITAL
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Russian bloggers are in absolute meltdown mode over the capturing of Russian tankers. It is not only some obscure TG accounts, but some very large and infamous ones like „Two Majors“, calling for military means against the US. I would even pay them to try that. Others are even suggesting the murder of Trump. You have really everything. It’s total seething.
But they are just barking dogs. Russia has nowhere near the capacities to conduct a naval war, or any other kind of war. Their ships are even partially bottled up in the Black Sea, unable to even leave port without being blown out of the water. It is pathetic.
It fits to everything we have observed the last 4 years and we should finally admit that Russian boasting is rampant, without any real possibility to back that up. There are just empty threats. We have seen this in Syria, we have seen this in Venezuela, we are seeing it in Iran and we see it every day in Ukraine.
Russia is losing on a strategic level. It has been reduced to a political and military playball for the US, and an economic vassal state for China. Russia cannot even take a small-sized city like Pokrovsk for almost 2 years, while using its entire economy for warfare. Again, it’s pathetic.
As I previously said, I don’t see any need to negotiate with Russia anything. They are losing this (global) war and the full liberation of Ukraine is the only way to establish lasting peace. It must be made clear that despite all the might-is-right talk we have to bolster that borders cannot be shifted by force. No country has done that since 1945 except Russia. This is unacceptable untenable and - most importantly - unnecessary.
We can fix it by helping Ukrainians with everything they need. Furthermore, we can help other nations and peoples who are currently fighting Russian terror with money and arms. Seeing Russian allies failing left and right is the best proof that it works. Eventually, the Russian war machine will run out of capacity and everything inside Russia will collapse.
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China is livid, and they’re not hiding it.
After Trump announced the U.S. will refine and sell up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil previously frozen under sanctions, Beijing fired back, calling the move a blatant power grab and a direct hit on their interests.
Why? Because that oil wasn’t just sitting there, China had already paid for a big chunk of it, through loan-for-oil deals and state-backed agreements with Maduro’s regime.
Trump’s plan? Ignore all that, break the blockade, grab the barrels, and reroute them to U.S. refineries.
The pitch: American energy security, because the U.S. is in charge now.
This is also about who gets to call the shots in Venezuela post-Maduro, and right now, Beijing just got boxed out while Washington takes over the chessboard.
It’s a high-stakes geopolitical standoff over energy, influence, and who controls Latin America’s future.
China just lost billions in oil access, but the U.S. just cashed in.
Source: Reuters
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Wait, they are using law enforcement to reverse-deport Venezuelans now?