• TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Because they think that there is significant indigenous resentment against Maduro to create an easy “kick in the rotting door, and then the real insert idealist government here take over” scenario.

      Literally that is the narrative that is circulating online, especially in online Spanish speaking spaces (because, shocker, poor Spanish speaking Venezuelans in Venezuela (who are Maduro’s primary base of support) aren’t going to have a huge online presence and thus will not be heard).

      For alot of ‘became politically aware after October 7th’ types (not this poster specifically), this is going to be their first time dealing with the horseshit surrounding Venezuela and Maduro (who is not a particularly fantastic leader, but still better than any reasonable alternative). They are likely going to think whatever the internet groundswell is because that is honestly how many of them came to understand Palestine.

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        The funniest take is that this will be different than Iraq because there is no ISIS in Venezuela. Ignoring that the invasion of Iraq was the thing that made ISIS establish themselves in Iraq and they only became an influential organisation by moving in after US interventions.

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        I know I see that narrative everywhere in Guatemala. I guess I was more surprised that someone who appears to be Palestinian (could be dead wrong on that) is anti-Maduro after all the Palestinian smearing the Atlanticist’s have been doing.