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Venezuela
By: guest5 Date: August 14, 2020, 7:22 pm
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US seizes Iranian gas heading for Venezuela: reports
[quote]American officials tell AP Trump administration seized
cargo of four tankers transporting Iranian fuel to
Venezuela.[/quote]
HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/200814043301330.html
[quote]Iran's ambassador to Venezuela said reports that Iranian
tankers had been seized were "yet another lie and psychological
warfare" by the United States.
"The ships are not Iranian, and neither the owner nor its flag
has anything to do with Iran," Hojat Soltani said on Twitter in
Spanish.[/quote]
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Re: Venezuela
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 14, 2020, 11:50 pm
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OLD CONTENT
Suspicion confirmed:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjhqPtPgoXE
24-my.info/guido-thanked-netanyahu-for-recognition-by-the-presid
ent-of-venezuela/
[quote]The leader of the Venezuelan opposition Juan Guido
thanked the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu for the
recognition of the head of the South American country. The
corresponding statement he posted Sunday on his Twitter.
“74 years ago was liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp
(Auschwitz), and just today, when our country is also fighting
for their freedom, we are grateful for the recognition and
support of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu,”
wrote Guido.[/quote]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_presidential_crisis#Recognition
"False Leftists are making pro democratic arguments in favor of
Maduro, and criticizing Guaidó for being "unpopular". Any
suggestions on how to improve this rhetoric."
I would advise Maduro to take this opportunity to blame the
current crisis on democracy itself (uncertainty over the
validity of election results - which is what created the crisis
- would not be possible if there were no elections in the first
place), and hence officially declare that Venezuela is dumping
democracy. But until he is willing to do so, even True Leftists
who want to defend him will find it impossible to avoid a
rhetorical clash with Maduro's own (democratic) defence claiming
that his election victory is what legitimizes his regime.
In True Left eyes, what legitimizes the Maduro regime is that it
is recognized by autocratic states such as China, North Korea,
Iran, Cuba, etc.. In ancient political consciousness, only
absolute monarchs have the authority to recognize foreign
states. Anyone willing to submit even the legitimacy of his own
regime to majority opinion is self-evidently unqualified to pass
judgement on regimes elsewhere. This is the kind of political
consciousness we are here to teach the world to get back to.
As I similarly advised in the past for Afghans dissatisfied with
the Taliban, Iraqis dissatisfied with Saddam Hussein, Libyans
dissatisfied with Gaddafi and Syrians dissatisfied with Assad,
the best response is to emigrate. This is also my advice for
Venezuelans dissatisfied with Maduro. The only duty of other
states in reaction to supposedly unpopular regimes is to accept
all who turn up as refugees on their own doorsteps (or, better
still, send their navies to proactively pick up anyone who wants
to move to their own country). The US should not try to
overthrow Maduro, just as it should not have tried to overthrow
Assad, and just as it should not have actually overthrown
Gaddafi, Hussein and the Taliban (which is what I have been
saying since the early 2000s!). And the same is true even of
Vietnam and Korea back in the 20th century. In each case the US
should simply have accepted all refugees from these countries
who seek asylum in the US. People left to themselves will sort
themselves into folks over time. The only thing that
neocon-style regime change ever achieves is to sabotage the
folkish sorting process over and over again before it ever has
been given enough time to complete (which is of course the
actual Zionist intent).
The True Left supports foreign intervention to achieve regime
change only in the event that the existing regime is itself an
entity sabotaging the folkish sorting process, either by locking
in people who want to leave, or by deporting people who do not
want to leave, or by locking out people who want to enter, or by
kidnapping people who do not want to enter. Examples include
Israel, Myanmar, V4, Italy, etc..
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"Is the Taliban good?"
Some Afghans will consider the Taliban to be good, other Afghans
will consider the Taliban to be bad. So let individual Afghans
each make their own decision about whether to stay or leave!
That is the point of the previous post. No regime will be
supported by everyone, but instead of changing regimes again and
again, how about (*gasp*) keeping the regimes in place and
letting people migrate to live under whichever regime they
prefer? So long as this is allowed to occur, eventually everyone
will be living under their preferred regime, with others who
share their preference.
I invite you to judge for yourself what kind of person Mohammed
Omar was, and to imagine what Afghanistan could have been like
by now if he had been allowed to continue ruling:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Omar
What is especially unsavoury about the US turning on the Taliban
is that the Taliban fought alongside America against the Soviets
during the Cold War, so the US invasion of Afghanistan was
basically backstabbing.
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Guess what?
www.jpost.com/International/Venezuelas-Guaido-says-he-is-working
-to-restore-ties-with-Israel-580414
[quote]Venezuela's self-declared leader Juan Guaido he was
working to restore ties with Israel that Caracas cut off a
decade ago in solidarity with the Palestinians.
Israel is among US-aligned powers that rallied to Guaido after
he declared himself Venezuela's leader last month in a power
struggle with socialist President Nicolas Maduro, under whom the
country has sunk into poverty.
"I am very happy to report that the process of stabilizing
relations with Israel is at its height," Guaido told the
mass-circulation Israel Hayom daily in an interview.
...
Maduro's precedessor, Hugo Chavez, shunned Israel over its
2008-2009 war in Gaza, and fostered ties with the Palestinians
as well as with Israel's arch-foe Iran. Israeli leaders said
Caracas' posture was prompting a flight of Venezuelan Jews.
"This (Jewish) community is very active and prosperous, one
which has contributed greatly to our society," Guaido said in
the interview.[/quote]
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And guess whom rightists are supporting for their own selfish
and parochial reasons?
vdare.com/posts/the-venezuelan-regime-and-hispanic-immigration
[quote]despotic governments are the greatest cause of
international migration today. Since the Marxist takeover of
Venezuela in 1999, about ten percent of the whole country has
left—around three million people. When polled in 2015, thirty
percent of those Venezuelans still in Venezuela said they wanted
to permanently leave.
There are today about 418,000 Venezuelans in the United States,
almost all which arrived in the last two decades—yet another
source of mass Hispanic immigration.
...
If you want less immigration, and you want more Hispanic
immigrants in the United States to go home, then start chanting
“President Juan Guaido!”[/quote]
As usual, Zionists pull the strings and rightists gladly let
themselves be puppeted.
But in light of this, we have even more reason to support
Maduro.
HTML https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/world/venezuelas-maduro-accuses-us-government-of-fabricating-crisis-to-start-war-in-south-america
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ0iQCdMYbs
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Here is a good site for keeping up to date with this topic:
venezuelanalysis.com/
Maduro seems to be holding on for now, but the danger is far
from over:
www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/us-m
ilitary-prepping-for-guaido-takeover-in-venezuela
[quote]"The president has been crystal clear and incredibly
consistent. Military action is possible. If that’s what’s
required, that’s what the United States will do," U.S. Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo said today in an interview on Fox Business
Network.[/quote]
This would not be happening if all Venezuelans who dislike
Maduro were allowed to simply migrate to the US.....
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America
[quote]"In Argentina, right-wing forces overthrew the
democratically elected President Isabel Perón in the 1976
Argentine coup d'état, starting the military dictatorship of
General Jorge Rafael Videla, known as National Reorganization
Process, resulting with around 30,000 victims becoming missing.
Both the coup and the following authoritarian regime was eagerly
endorsed and supported by the United States government[1] with
US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger paying several official
visits to Argentina during the dictatorship.[2][3]"
"Brazil experienced several decades of right-wing authoritarian
governments, especially after the US-backed[8] 1964 Brazilian
coup d'état against center-left social democrat João Goulart
promoted, according to then President John F. Kennedy, to
"prevent Brazil from becoming another Cuba".[9]"
"After the democratic election of President Salvador Allende in
1970, an economic war ordered by President Richard Nixon,[11]
among other things, caused the 1973 Chilean coup d'état with the
involvement of the CIA[12][13] due to Allende’s democratic
socialist leanings. What follows was the decades-long US-backed
military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.[14]"
"After several peasant and workers uprisings in the country
against the oligarchic and anti-democratic governments, often
under the control of powerful American companies' interests like
the United Fruit Company, with the appearance of figures like
Farabundo Martí who lead these social revolts and were violently
crushed, efforts to take the power democratically were often
thwarted by US intervention. Civil war spread with US-endorsed
far-right governments in El Salvador facing far-left
guerrillas."
"Peasants and workers (mostly of indigenous descent) revolts
during the first half of the Guatemalan 20th century due to
harsh conditions and abuse from landlords and the
government-supported American United Fruit Company were brutally
repressed. This led to the democratic election of left-leaning
Jacobo Arbenz. Arbenz was overthrown during the US-backed 1954
Guatemalan coup d'état leading to right-wing US-endorsed
authoritarian governments."
"After the Sandinista Revolution that overthrew pro-American
dictator[31] Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaragua faced the USA
sponsored rebel far-right Contra guerrilla."
"Left-wing Panamanian de facto ruler Omar Torrijos' unexpected
death in a plane crash has been attributed to US agents in
collaboration with Manuel Noriega."
"Conservative (sometimes described as far-right) Colorado Party
in Paraguay ruled the country for 65 consecutive years,
including the American-supported[38][39][40][41] brutal
dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner that lasted 35 years, from
1954 to 1989."
"Another CIA-sponsored government in Peru was Alberto Fujimori
and Vladimiro Montesinos's regime,[53][54] However, Montesino's
extreme corruption and authoritarian leanings eventually led to
the downfall of Fujimori's government."
"After 150 years of right-wing governments from the so call
"traditional parties" in Uruguay, the US-backed[56][57][58]
Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay started after the
Military-led 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état that suppressed the
Constitution of Uruguay of 1967 empowering President Juan María
Bordaberry as dictator. Trade union leaders and political
opponents were arrested, killed or exiled, and human rights
violations were abundant.[59]"[/quote]
And the latest addition to the US criminal record:
[quote]"Additionally, on 23 January 2019, the President of the
National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, was declared the interim
President by that body. Guaidó was immediately recognized as the
legitimate President by several nations, including the United
States and the Lima Group, as well as the Organization of
American States. Maduro disputed Guaidó's claim and broke off
diplomatic ties with several nations who recognized Guaidó's
claim.[89] Maduro's government says the crisis is a coup d'état
orchestated by the United States to topple him and control the
country's oil reserves.[90][91][92]"[/quote]
Welcome to the Western world, where we are seen as the good guys
by ruining people's lives to secure our own interests.
Western civilization must die.
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www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-09-03/us-military-surrounding-venezu
ela-new-deployment-guyana
[quote]The US military has effectively surrounded Venezuela,
ahead of a possible military intervention.
We've reported in the past that the Pentagon is jointly working
with Colombia, Brazil and other regional partners on how to
crush Venezuela's economy so that President Nicolás Maduro would
step down.
Now there's a new report that the US military has been deployed
to the impoverished South American nation of Guyana, the first
time in a decade. The country is located on South America's
North Atlantic coast and borders Venezuela to the West.[/quote]
See also:
HTML https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2019/01/know-your-neighbors-who-else-are.html
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Re: Venezuela
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 14, 2020, 11:57 pm
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OLD CONTENT contd.
www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/venezuela-will-be-world-s-worst-refu
gee-crisis-2020-most-n1099631
About 4.7 million Venezuelans, 16 percent of the country's
population, have fled Venezuela since its economy suffered a 65
percent contraction in 2013, the largest outside of war in 45
years.
[quote]Venezuela is second only to Syria in terms of how many
displaced people are living outside their country of origin. But
estimates from the United Nations Refugee Agency show that if
current trends continue, there could be as many as 6.5 million
Venezuelans living outside of their country by 2020, far
outpacing the speed of displacement seen in Syria with 6.7
million Syrians being pushed out of their birth nation.
And yet funding to aid this crisis affecting millions of
Venezuelans and at least 17 host nations — the three largest
being Colombia, Ecuador and Peru — has really been lagging.
The international community spent $7.4 billion on refugee
response efforts in the first four years of the Syrian crisis.
But the international community has only spent $580 million four
years into the Venezuelan refugee crisis, according to
Brookings. On a per capita basis, the international community
has spent $1,500 to help each Syrian refugee and $125 per
Venezuelan refugee.[/quote]
International financial aid would not be required if refugees
were simply allowed to go wherever they wanted, since they will
spontaneously head for countries most suited to their individual
needs. It's only when refugees are violently barred from entry
to certain countries that they then inevitably accumulate above
accomodation capacity in other countries which then requires
financial aid to be sent!
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www.yahoo.com/news/ap-interview-venezuelas-guaid-extols-21531606
5.html
[quote]CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opposition leader Juan Guaidó
said Friday that he trusts U.S. President Donald Trump's "firm
and determined” backing following a White House meeting aimed at
helping him steer crisis-stricken Venezuela toward a democratic
transition.
The Venezuelan politician bent on ousting President Nicolás
Maduro with backing from roughly 60 foreign nations told The
Associated Press that additional tough U.S. sanctions will soon
follow, including those cutting off Maduro's sale of
“blood-stained gold.”
“For me he is very trustworthy,” Guaidó said of Trump. “We had a
very good meeting. I think he is a man of his word.”[/quote]
Even the Red senators who acquitted Trump admitted Trump had
been lying about everything.....
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgGTm1hlPDw
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCEAOs7aK_g
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www.marketwatch.com/story/defiant-maduro-threatens-trump-after-1
5-million-bounty-by-us-over-drug-trafficking-charge-2020-03-27
[quote]MIAMI (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stood
defiant in the face of a $15 million bounty by the U.S. to face
drug trafficking charges, calling Donald Trump a “racist cowboy”
and warning that he is ready to fight by whatever means
necessary should the U.S. and neighboring Colombia dare to
invade.
...
“Donald Trump, you are a miserable human being,” Maduro railed
during his televised address. “You manage international
relations like a New York mafia extortion artist you once were
as a real estate boss.”
What was some of Maduro’s most venomous rhetoric ever against
Trump also came with a threat of military force: “If one day the
imperialists and Colombian oligarchy dare to touch even a single
hair, they will face the Bolivarian fury of an entire nation
that will wipe them all out.”[/quote]
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[quote]Venezuelan TV airs ‘confession’ of ex-US Special Forces
soldier after coup attemp
A former US Special Forces soldier said in what was described as
a videotaped confession aired on Venezuelan TV Wednesday that he
was promised up to $100,000 to lead a mercenary army in a wild
raid to oust the country’s President Nicolas Maduro.[/quote]
nypost.com/2020/05/06/ex-us-special-forces-soldier-confesses-on-
venezuelan-tv/
[quote]US will use ‘every tool’ to get ex-soldiers back from
Venezuela: Pompeo
The US will use “every tool” available to secure the release of
two former American soldiers believed to be held in Venezuela,
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday.
Venezuelan officials claimed this week that two former US
special forces soldiers — Luke Denman and Airan Berry — were
among the mercenaries taken into custody after a botched coup
attempt to overthrow Venezuelan socialist strongman Nicolas
Maduro.
Pompeo stopped short of confirming the two Americans were being
held in the South American nation, calling it a “consular
matter.”
“We will start the process of trying to figure a way if, in
fact, these are Americans that are there, that we can figure out
a path forward,” he said. “We want to get every American
back.”[/quote]
nypost.com/2020/05/06/us-will-use-every-tool-to-get-ex-soldiers-
back-from-venezuela/
It seems like the only thing rightists don't botch is their
racism, stupidity, and infecting the world with their insanity.
Everything else they fail at apparently....
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYk2ZjO4ewo
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSZdFQfYm9g
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgbNFjefQdI
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkAZOg-v0xg
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUCZPZXychw
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Re: Venezuela
By: guest5 Date: December 4, 2020, 10:38 pm
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Venezuela is holding legislative elections, without opposition
[quote]A little more than a year ago, Venezuela's President
Nicolas Maduro's political survival seemed to be hanging by a
thread. Now, in the lead-up to legislative elections, leading
opposition parties are boycotting the polls. This will make it
likely that Maduro will reclaim the only state institution he
does not control, the National Assembly.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FwyO99-XBI
US-backed Guaido claims Venezuela elections are rigged
[quote]Venezuelans are set to head to the polls this weekend for
a highly awaited election that will determine 277
representatives for the National Assembly. But the candidate the
United States and its allies say they recognize as the president
of Venezuela is refusing to run, claiming the election is
rigged. Leonardo Flores, the Latin America Campaign Coordinator
for Code Pink, breaks it down.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec3c3VA6dqc
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Re: Venezuela
By: guest5 Date: December 7, 2020, 8:13 pm
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Venezuela’s Guaido vows to challenge Maduro’s congress win
[quote]Maduro’s Socialist Party-led alliance wins 67 percent of
National Assembly seats in polls boycotted by the opposition
parties.[/quote]
HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/7/venezuelan-president-maduro-claims-sweep-of-boycotted-election
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Re: Venezuela
By: guest5 Date: December 8, 2020, 11:47 am
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Trouble With Venezuela Election, U.S. Intervention
[quote]Venezuela went to the polls on Sunday to elect new
members of the National Assembly. Up for grabs in the election
are 277 Assembly seats, 110 more from the previous legislature.
While Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro cheered the election,
opposition leader and National Assembly Speaker Juan Guaido has
announced a boycott of the vote. What does Sunday's election
mean for Venezuela's political future? Could it help ease
Venezuelans' economic struggles – unemployment, scarcity of
basic necessities – and now the COVID-19 pandemic?[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oN-Az7Q2qY
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Re: Venezuela
By: guest5 Date: February 26, 2021, 7:39 pm
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How Ex-US Army Green Berets Were Lured Into A Disastrous Failed
Coup In Venezuela
[quote]In May, the Venezuelan government released photos and
video footage showing a ragtag group of men who appear to have
been captured by security forces in a village on the country's
northern coast. According to President Nicolás Maduro, eight
people were killed and dozens more were captured in what he said
was an attempt to kidnap him and remove him from the country.
Among the captured men were two American former Green Berets,
who were reportedly hired to train men for the operation in
Colombia.
In what the Venezuelan government called "confession videos"
released by state-controlled media, the two Americans said that
they were working on behalf of the U.S. government, specifically
under the orders of President Donald Trump. However, President
Trump, along with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, flatly denied
any American involvement in the plot.
Business Insider spoke with the brother of captured American
Luke Denman, who points out red flags raised by the footage.
Denman, along with a spokesperson from the U.S. State
Department, suggests that the men in the footage were used as
pawns in a false flag operation staged by the Venezuelan
government.
Along with Mark Denman and the U.S. State Department, Business
Insider spoke with other key figures to understand what aspects
of this complex story are rooted in fact, and what aspects may
have been constructed by the Venezuelan government.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlK5DgS58y0
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Re: Venezuela
By: SirGalahad Date: February 26, 2021, 10:57 pm
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@90sRetroFan Your post about allowing everyone dissatisfied with
their current regime to migrate until states are more
ideologically homogeneous, and therefore folkish, makes a lot of
sense. However, if we’re to start a revolution following
Aryanist principles within our own nations, wouldn’t that also
count as overthrowing a current regime? Attempting to convert
America for example to an Aryanist state would necessarily have
to be forceful, and go against the wishes of a great number of
Americans. And considering the evils that non-Aryanist states
permit, both minor and large, aren’t we going to have to
directly wage war against other nations and forcefully overthrow
regimes at some point anyways, if we’re to spread our influence?
I’m just trying to understand your position better
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Re: Venezuela
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 27, 2021, 12:45 am
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"if we’re to start a revolution following Aryanist principles
within our own nations, wouldn’t that also count as overthrowing
a current regime?"
A democratic state has no regime as such (instead it has
discrete scheduled administrations a.k.a. terms of office), so
no. The point of revolution to overthrow democracy in all
countries is to turn all states into actual regimes (ie.
autocracies). From there on the folkish sorting process via
migration can properly begin.
Democracy by the very way it functions creates a disincentive to
emigrate even if you are dissatisfied with the current policies,
as it is by staying and voting that you have a chance to get
into government the administration (and hence the policies) you
want. (But even those who do not get the policies they want have
to continue paying taxes to fund policies they don't want,
because they didn't emigrate!) This is why democracy must be
overthrown.
"considering the evils that non-Aryanist states permit, both
minor and large, aren’t we going to have to directly wage war
against other nations and forcefully overthrow regimes at some
point anyways, if we’re to spread our influence?"
Yes. There is no structural problem with one autocratic state
defeating another autocratic state. This produces simplification
over time as the total number of states in the world is reduced.
The structural problem with neoconservatism is that it involves
a democratic state defeating an autocratic state and then
turning it into a separate democratic state. This produces
complexification over time as the total number of states in the
world is not reduced, but instead a regime is replaced with a
series of brief administrations (whereupon dissatisfied people
stop wanting to emigrate as they think they should stay and vote
instead (see above)).
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Re: Venezuela
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 7, 2022, 11:51 pm
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Duginism helps to unify the New World?
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuRm2C_h2Ks
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