Death to EU, death to USA. All support to to the bolivarian movement against imperialism.
None of those things, thank you.
He wasn’t legitimate
Guess Zelensky isn’t a legitimate president either, now Russia gets to invade Ukraine!
That’s literally the claim they’d been making since 2014.
US is playing by the Russian playbook right now. And EU decided to play along.
Where did Putin say “We’re gonna take the oil! We’re gonna grab it and take it!”?
Where does Trump claim that Venezuela is part the US, that it’s like an independent Texas overrun with Chinese puppet president suppressing the areas of Texas left where people still want to be part of the US and that is worried on whether nukes will be placed in those areas?
How is Zelensky not a legitimate head of state? He won his election without rigging.
He isn’t since April 2024 and is using martial law to keep himself in power despite not being able to sue for peace
More legitimate than what the US is up to.
About the same
Nope.
This post title is completely misleading. Kallas explicitly says that international law and the UN Charter must be respected - nothing about endorsing any invasion. She is saying the opposite.
From the UN Charter (Article 2(4)):
All Members shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.
According to Kaja Kallas twit, “Mr. Maduro lacks legitimacy and [the EU] has defended a peaceful transition”. In my book, this means support to the USA invasion/special operation.
Edit: typo
The EU has repeatedly stated that Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. A “peaceful transition” is not a military operation. In EU language it means elections, negotiations, and constitutional processes. Illegitimacy does not equal a green light for foreign force.
- Be a legitimate democracy because it is controlled by CIA
- Declare illegitimacy without evidence, because communist countries must be sanctioned and persecuted.
- Kill or kidnap said leaders.
- Promote peaceful, rules based order, transition to CIA approved leader.
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Your brain on imperialism
I’m just saying he wasn’t a popular fella, so less people care. That’s just how it goes
Maduro is popularly supported in Venezuela by the working classes. The compradors the US Empire has installed like Machado are deeply unpopular.
I’m talking about Europe though. (This is c/Europe)
Europeans should care, considering the active support of the US empire’s vassals.
I don’t think many Europeans feel the same
They should, if they have any decency.
By my math, (-1: illegitimate president) + (-1: illegal state intervention) = (-2: illegal shit)
If your math is a little more lenient: (-1: illegitimate president) - (-1: illegal state intervention) = (0: sketchy shit)
Either way, this is in line with shit the US has been doing since… well, forever. “Peace president” and “America first” my hiney.
I expect a ton of down votes for this, but here we go.
The EU needs to gain power through independence before providing a different response. The complicated task will be to protect and solidify personal liberty in the process.
The strongest players want the EU to disperse because they know, that this is the best way to keep criticism at bay. The problem is that the EU is in it’s design deeply undemocratic and non European but nationalistic…
The EU has been saying that for like decades though and they never do. At this point their “powerlesness” is just a shield they use to waive away responsibility.
The EU needs to gain power through independence before providing a different response. The complicated task will be to protect and solidify personal liberty in the process.
Yeah, what should we do? Sanctions on the US? We are more dependent on US then they are on Europe so that will backfire massively. The best is probably to work on independence from US, for example we are very dependent on the payment processors which are American.
