• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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        It’s pretty easy to look good when your opposition is Maduro. American interference aside he’s created a refugee crisis and is indisputably running a dictatorship, which even other socialist leaders recognize.

        That said…

        “This immense recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is an impetus to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom,” Machado said in a statement.

        https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70821201ego

        Yeesh, gotta hope that’s a translation error

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          Look closely - how does she still looks good for people. She just dedicated her Nobel price to Trump. It might just be conspiracy lol.

          It’s also indisputably true that the US sponsored coups and engaged in economic warfare for over 20 years, and Machado is right there working with the US against Venezuela. How is that peace? So, how DOES she look good? Is it something with your eyes? Or maybe with the words you read that you allow to program your mind? Like brainwashing? Like, how even the Nobel committee thinks she is a good person? How can people have a good opinion with her?

          And more importantly, how can you have a democracy when people are this brainwashed? How do you defend against it? How should Venezuela defend itself against this hybrid war?

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      That particular Venezuelan woman was one of the leaders of the coup attempt against Chavez in the early 2000s and has been an opposition leader ever since. What makes this complicated is that she welcomed sanctions and coup attempts by the US, including during Trump’s first term and she even pleaded to Netanyahu to liberate Venezuela with military force (wasn’t able to find a better source since search results are very award focused right now).

      She has close ties to Israel’s Likud party, and wants to open the Venezuelan embassy in Jerusalem after Chavez ended diplomatic relations after their assault on Gaza in 2009 and likened Venezuela’s struggle to the one of Israel.

      From the will of Alfred Nobel outlining who is to receive the prize:

      and one part to the person who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment and promotion of peace congresses.

      I’m wondering how the committee is squaring this requirement with her calling for “the use of power” by external forces.

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        Yep, calculated to enrage him but in specifically a way he’d have to be a huge, hypocritical manbaby to cry about.

        So the meltdown will be epic, obviously.