I don’t care about Maduro, as far as I’m concerned, they can shoot him if they want. What matters to me is walking through the streets of my city and seeing the faces of fear on my neighbors. The military patrolling to prevent looting due to panic. It’s a collective hangover, a horrible one.
It’s 2016 all over again. It’s seeing despair entering the circulatory system of all Venezuelans, only now it’s more sudden, and we are painfully aware of it.
This is far from improving, and we know it.
Protests didn’t stop the genocide in Gaza, unfortunately. We need to organize, not just mobilize.
The reason that Trump had to strong-arm American Universities and deport anti-zionist organizers is because the protests were working. People were paying attention and the government was coming off badly. Opinion on Zionism is at a multi-decade low in the US. When the Universities cracked down to appease Trump, the protests should have stepped up. Unfortunately for the world, they faded away. Protests are very effective - they have toppled governments all over the world, including the decades-long regimes of brutal dictators. If more Americans find the courage and will to protest and strike, Trump and MAGA can be stopped. They want you to believe that protest doesn’t work.
Those are fair points. Also, not only is opinion on Zionism at a low, but for the first time since they started asking the question, more Americans sympathize with Palestinians than Israelis. So that’s true, that is significant… but it still didn’t stop America from sending a single dollar to the Zionist entity. I guess you could say they worked but they didn’t entirely succeed.
We had the Occupy movement, and the rich still got so much richer that nobody can afford anything. We had George Floyd, and they took away DEI and want to deport non-whites. We protested Gaza and the still starved kids to death. Things look bad and it’s not just here. It’s worldwide.
A lot of nation leaders need to realize this and they need to do the same clandestine shit the USA does to oppose non-capitalist governments.
They can’t do the same clandestine shit the US dues though, us simply has had more resources for decades. Not just assets but resources for those assets to utilize. In some cases nearly limitless resources
And they are already everywhere.
According to some former CIA people the CIA does what the president wants them to do regardless of legality morals or ethics.
This president is a criminal already, he has very few if any lines he’s unwilling to cross.
And also they have an apparatus that was trained on 50+ years of cold war as the crucible to forge their current ability, another thing that can’t be quickly attained.
I honestly don’t know what they could achieve even if they went full throttle into your suggestions.