Tigerace117:
Yes, threats like those of John Bolton, President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Special Envoy Elliot Abrams, President Jair Bolsonaro and Mercanary Entrepreneur Erik Prince.
Yes Unconventional Warfare (UW) including crippling economic warfare, informational warfare, political warfare to foment revolt, and irregular warfare by mutineers, proxies and mercenaries based out of Columbia and allegedly now Brazil.
Who has been slaughtered? Compared to the low casualties attributed to Venezuelans themselves on both sides, the economist Jeffery Sachs of Columbia University in my response to Rogue Valley has estimated 40,000 deaths resulting from US-led economic warfare. So yes, restraint.
The four examples given spanned almost a century. If you want more I can dump a big load more on you. Want more recent than 1932 and I'll take you on a journey of American atrocity and American proxy atrocity which will make your hair curl.
These protests are in many ways like those of Palestine and Ireland during the troubles as all involved foreign powers imposing their will on the people and lands of the locals. Egypt is similar because it was the crushing of a legally elected government. The only difference is in Venezuela it is a middle class and well-to-do revolt against a socialist state.
No one was run-over and no one died. They were pushed aside and some were injured but not run-over. Watch the video of the event. And the protesters were firebombing the vehicles at the time. There was a crowd control pump-truck which had to keep dowsing the MRAPs due to the incendiaries of the protesters. These were riots, not protests. The Venezuelan authorities have shown reasonable restraint compared with allies and proxies of the US like Israel at the Gaza March of Return protests or the Saudi/Bahraini crushing of the Arab Spring revolt in Bahrain which left thousands dead and hundreds more brutally executed after the fact.
So yes, bud. "Restraint".
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
So in other words, again, the US making it clear that we won’t tolerate Maduro slaughtering his own people. Listing members of the US government or Brazilian government is not a “threat”. The
real threat to Venezuela comes from the stupidity and incompetence of one Nicolas Maduro.
In other words, a desperate attempt to blame the US for the fact that Venezuela is falling apart despite the fact that the country starting disintegrating well before the sanctions you are crying about were applied, plus a bunch of conspiracy theories. I hate to break it to you but when your leader has runbthe country so far into the ground that you don’t have enough toilet paper, much less food or medicine, people will mutiny. Crying “political warfare” just makes you sound like a CTer loon.
Oh look, and more unsupported conspiracy theories and attempts to blame the US for the stupidity and incompetence of the Maduro regime.
Yes, they also involved four entirely different countries with very different political situations. While I’m sure you could dig up plenty of conspiracy theories, tankie fairy tales, and general screeching, none of that is relevant to Venezuela.
Lol what “foreign powers”? The situation in Venezuela is a
homegrown one. Claiming foreign powers are “imposing their will” on Venezuela is flat out laughable.....unless, of course, you are talking about the fact that Moscow, Beijing and Havana are propping up the Maduro regime.
Oh, so are you volunteering to let me run you over with an APC? After all, nobody died when they got “brushed aside” so clearly it’s no big deal right? :roll:
Yes, you tankies have shown remarkable stupidity, but that’s nothing new..