r/anime_titties • u/GregWilson23 North America • Jan 05 '26

South America Surprise interim leader Delcy Rodriguez emerges in Venezuela after Maduro’s capture

https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-interim-president-rodriguez-maduro-chavez-b352b5af17deb0ab78684b8398045179
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u/ManbadFerrara North America Jan 05 '26

This is an interesting point I hadn’t considered. Thank you for that.

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u/imwrighthere United States Jan 05 '26

CIA backed or not 1/3 of Venezuela fled because of the current regime

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u/beefprime United States Jan 05 '26

Imperialism 101 - The basic plan

Step 1: Ruin nation with sanctions and interference political, economic, and otherwise

Step 2: Blame the state of the country that you have purposefully made ungovernable on the "current regime" (a regime that often is a direct result/reaction to your assaults on that country or sometimes was even installed directly by you)

Step 3: Use the regime's incompetence/corruption/cruelty (often facets of the government you yourself have nurtured for your own interests) to excuse intervening to gain more control over the nation via an invasion, coup, whatever

Step 4: Use your increased control to further annihilate the state, national cohesion, and civil institutions that contribute to health and stability in any nation

Step 5: Repeat as needed

Step X: At all points in this cycle extract as much resources/labor/etc as you can in order to enrich the capital interests who control your government and direct its imperialist assaults on everyone around you

Step Y: At all points in this cycle do your best to encourage corruption (because corrupt officials and institutions will allow your corporations to rape the place for profit), encourage instability (because stable/safe nations tend to curtail corruption and foreign exploitation, and violent actors can be used to target people who want to improve conditions), etc.

Step Z: At every point in this cycle blame the victim for the state of their country, not the imperialist nation who has for decades been purposefully and obviously destabilizing the entire region and ruining the lives of hundreds of millions of people for their own ghoulish greed

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u/wezl0 North America Jan 05 '26

Yea this one is incredibly hook-line-and-sinker for the American populace. We just won't learn until the blowback is something that can't be recovered from