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submitted 5 months ago by Champoloo@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38329201

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Prize winner Maria Corina Machado said military escalation is the "only" way to remove authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro from power.

"The increase in pressure and the escalation that's taken place is the only way to force Maduro to understand that it's time to go," and "facilitate a peaceful and orderly transition," Machado told Bloomberg.

The comments come as the Trump administration has reportedly made the decision to strike military facilities inside Venezuela, with attacks potentially taking place at any time.

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 62 points 5 months ago

this is why you purge your enemies permanently, ffs she participated in 2002 coup

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why bother purging her? She might be replaced by someone less bad at her job.

Incredible that they had to give her a Nobel prize to try to recover even a shred of credibility for her.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 32 points 5 months ago

she is passable at her job, it's guaido-despair and gonzales (?) who are wet blankets. i mainly talking about porky class, but states not bringing ultimate sanctions to people actively participating in treason, now for 20 years running is like (???)

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago

i mainly talking about porky class, but states not bringing ultimate sanctions to people actively participating in treason, now for 20 years running is like (???)

100-com

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago

Why bother purging her?

need to purge all of them, as they come

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Because that might give the next bourgeois comprador pause. They're perfectly fine with others doing the dying for them.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 58 points 5 months ago

Fucking gusano. Absolute scum and her idiot supporters deserve to be boiled alive.

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

Absolute scum and her idiot supporters deserve to be boiled alive.

Chairman Guzman, welcome to the resistance!

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The only way to remove a leader elected by their own people is by violent military force? You don't say...

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 40 points 5 months ago

War is Peace 1984

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 40 points 5 months ago

Thank god they gave that prize to Kissinger years ago so we all knew this shit was inevitable

Peace is prostrating yourself to us empire, got it, thanks guys, this totally isn’t another sigh-inducing example of Europe siding with USA hegemony

[-] Speaker@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago
[-] LNSS@hexbear.net 32 points 5 months ago

I feel like her getting the Nobel Peace Prize led to Trump being briefed about her, which led him to approving regime change in Venezuela. It would be wild if the awarding of a Nobel Peace Prize directly led to a war.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I feel like her getting the Nobel Peace Prize led to Trump being briefed about her, which led him to approving regime change in Venezuela

Trump tried regime change in Venezuela during his first term. These lab-grown neolib compradors like Guaido and Machado are usually in touch with the CIA for years before these things kick off. Regime change in Venezuela has been on the imperial agenda since Chavez.

Here is a photo from the failed coup attempt circa 2019

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

Hey this photo doesn’t show the piss stream

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 5 months ago
[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

sorry I wasn’t wearing my glassesi-spil-my-jice

[-] seas_surround@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago
[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

all-my-apes-gone all my piss gone

[-] UmmmCheckPlease@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

War. Huh. What is it good for? Accruing Nobel prizes apparently…

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

~~The Nobel Peace prize is not one of the Nobel prizes. It's entirely separate~~

Edit: I am wrong

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 0 points 5 months ago

No, you're thinking of the economics one. The peace prize is official Nobel.

[-] john_brown@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Little Marco Rubio was on direct communication with the Nobel committee. He told them to give the award to Trump, they replied they could give it to anyone but Trump, so Rubio told them to give it to this bozo. Trump definitely was involved in the choice beforehand.

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

This is actually quite consistent with what a committee made up of five members of the Norwegian political elite would consider "peace".

Garbage in, garbage out.

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago

"Many of you may die, but I'll make off like a bandit, so it's a sacrifice Im willing to make."

-Nobel Peace Prize winner

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 37 points 5 months ago

her and Kissinger would get along

[-] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

I dont get the joke but it was a fun boss fight

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

Kissinger won a Nobel Peace prize, despite being largely responsible for much of latter 20th century US foreign policy.

Maria Corina Machado wins a Nobel Peace prize, then a week later is endorsing armed conflict.

I'm implying the Nobel Peace prize is no better than a cynical fictional trinket that "absolves the bearer of all crimes past and future".

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago
[-] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago
[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Least bloodthirsty nobel peace prize winner

[-] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

nobel war prize is funny if nothing else

[-] LadyCajAsca@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

oh look the propaganda game is ramping up, it looks like.

[-] daniyeg@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

go to fucking hell i swear to god i will not fedpost

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

You could also just not remove the elected head of state.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Giving trump the peace prize would have been too obvious

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