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  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.ml•The spice must flow, even when the Strait of Hormuz doesn’t
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    8 days ago

    Relevant article to this:

    Negotiate with your parents’ kidnappers who are threatening your family with death. by Francisco Ameliach

    Brief teaser:

    The title is a metaphor that describes the situation of the Venezuelan government and the Bolivarian Revolution after the United States, in a disproportionate military action violating international law, kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Deputy Cilia Flores, in the early morning of January 3, 2026.

    Minutes after the kidnapping, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez received a call from the kidnappers threatening her life and vowing to exterminate Chavismo through waves of bombings. This extermination would not only target the High Command of the Bolivarian Revolution’s Political and Military leadership, but would also extend to the grassroots leadership of Chavismo, as stipulated in the mercenary contract for Operation Gideon, formally known as the “General Services Agreement,” a document signed in October 2019 between members of the Venezuelan opposition and Silvercorp USA, headed by Jordan Goudreau.

    The rest in:

    spoiler

    The contract stipulated that the mercenaries would remain for at least 495 days, with the aim of exterminating the grassroots leadership of Chavismo with lethal force.

    Interim President Delcy Rodríguez and the High Political Command of the Bolivarian Revolution are acting and making decisions to protect the people from another act of war by the United States and to prevent a civil war. The Venezuelan government and the Bolivarian Revolution are not negotiating under normal conditions; they are negotiating with kidnappers who possess nuclear weapons, who respect no rules of coexistence, and who control the bodies responsible for administering justice according to international law. This is an asymmetrical negotiation that marks a new era where power prevails over the rules.

    Asymmetric negotiation, where there is a significant disparity in economic, military, or political power, has entered a critical phase. In a context of eroding international law, the “rules of the game” that once served as a small shield for weaker nations are being replaced by brute force.

    In this context, the “ethics of negotiation” disappears. The negotiator from the weaker nation does not seek a “win-win” outcome, but rather to minimize damage and ensure the survival of the state.

    We are witnessing a transition from a rules-based order to one based on a hierarchy of power. In today’s asymmetrical negotiation, international law is no longer the arbiter, but rather a suggestion that powerful nations disregard when their interests are at stake.

    For disadvantaged nations, the only real defense is strategic relevance: becoming indispensable in a niche (technology, critical resources, or geographic position) so that the cost of being “run over” is too high, even for the strongest.

    The analysis of the negotiations between Venezuela and the United States after January 3, 2026 reveals an extreme case of asymmetry, where the use of military force completely redefined international relations.

    Interim President Delcy Rodríguez is acting intelligently to ensure the survival of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, leveraging the strategic importance of the state that possesses the world’s largest oil reserves and its extraordinary geographic location. She operates within a framework of asymmetrical negotiation, employing the pragmatic approach of Chavismo, with tactical flexibility but without strategic naiveté. Our Interim President, Delcy Rodríguez, deserves and needs the support of the entire Venezuelan nation.

    TL DR Venezuela needs to develop indigenous military technology that can produce in mass mid range missiles and electronic warfare weapons. This will help them narrow the difference in military power against the US. This is the biggest lesson from the war in West Asia. Now, due to the difference in military power knowing the criminal ways of the US that may do scorched-earth policy, it is not worth sacrificing lives if Venezuela has no way to break America’s teeth.

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.ml•Jesus wouldn't recognise these Christians.
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    2 months ago

    There are lots of good Christians who could be good communists if atheist communists weren’t so dogmatic spiteful and dismissive.

    Yup, if they do convert to communists, their stories will be similar to Gaspar García Laviana or other liberation theology christians that joined the guerrilla to topple fascist dictators throughout Latam. This writing helps clear how some made the jump to great communists.

    “Somozaism is a sin, and freeing ourselves from oppression is freeing ourselves from sin.”

    His poetry, letters, and reflections show that his decision to become a guerrilla fighter was not an act of desperation, but the logical consequence of his faith. As he wrote in Campesino 2 :

    “I felt your poverty in my flesh…
    I wanted to extinguish your poverty with legalistic justice;
    when I couldn’t, I became a guerrilla fighter.”