I feel ya, bro...I've been wondering how to stop this. I'm not talking about adventure time or anything, I'm trying to get into the heads of these assholes and try to find a soft-landing for them, after they've been whipping people up into an evil frenzy for 26yrs against the Bolivarian Revolution. The Venezuelan right is always pulling shit out of their ass, like an alternative reality that exists diametrically opposed to this reality we are sharing right now. An entire ecosystem of media exists for them, with their own ''heroes'', ''journalists'', ''political prisoners'', ''insiders'', and all that. It's a Netflix show. These people subsist on leeching their own base while feeding them false hopes on a daily basis. They've managed to maintain this for 2 and a half decades. We had the ''Guaidóman Show'', where everybody in the same map played along, we've had all the coups since 2002, Obama's declaration, the guarimbas, the unilateral coercive measures, but now we have fucking US boats near them. Every day on YT and social media, these reactionary pieces of shit are hyping up the invasion happening tomorrow, or the next day, or in 2 days.
This is all part of psychological warfare. But I must ask...Where does it end? How do they get off this train? Are we gonna be on this shit for the next 3yrs of Trump? Trump could end this tomorrow, in a way where he can save face with his base. He can just say, we did it, we killed some ''narcos'', no more drugs coming into the US, etc. It's all bullshit, but the hogs can do a couple of laps and move on to the next merde du jour. The escuálidos don't matter, they've seen ICE detaining them and Trump revoking their TPS crap. I tell you, if at the same time as a livestream from Venezuela showed Maduro alive and talking, Trump announced they killed Maduro, they would believe it. María Corina Machado and the rest of them, don't matter either, that's their problem if they look like clowns, and Trump could wash his hands off them and Marco Rubio, too. This is my cope, man, that any day now, they'll announce ''Mission Accomplished'' on some silly named boat and go back to grilling.
I have a socdem friend that I've known my entire life and he works in finance. Dude has not only traveled extensively, but also lived, worked, and made friends in places like Mexico, Brasil and China where he is now. He's also, like me, always been pretty anti-American since we were kids. However, for us that turned into Eurocentrism. We looked up to Europe back then as the comparison against the US. Due to the work he does he spends his time around expats, western educated people, and even if he's learned the languages, it's easier to remain in that bubble. That bubble is full of all the tropes we know and despise. People looking at the West with googly eyes, and not their own. He still believes China is capitalist, that people can't express themselves freely, that there's censorship, authoritarianism, etc. Some people just never let go of western chauvinism, no matter how much exposure and education they've gone through. A part of them still clings to bourgeois propaganda.