Max Blumenthal joins Glenn Diesen to dissect the January 3rd raid on Caracas—a terrorist assault that killed dozens, kidnapped Maduro, and exposed Trump’s Venezuela endgame as raw plunder, not liberation.
“We stand for justice, truth and the value of a single human being.” With these simple but powerfully inspiring words, a life-time ago, the world held-out hope that at long last international law and accountability would progress from abstract, esoteric principle to momentous binding application. The Nuremberg Tribunals spoke directly to the pain and suffering of tens of millions of civilians swept up into the geo-political chambers of supremacist hate and violence, victimized by an unprecedented rampage of the relative few who committed a calculated, gruesome violation of human rights. Yet, before the ink had even dried on exalted ideals and commanding words, Europe was at it, once again, with the forcible implant of a generation of surviving victims into age-old Palestine, indifferent to how many new victims were crushed by its latest colonial project which continues brazen, unchecked and deadly all these decades later."
- Why Venezuela's Military did Not Fight? A negotiated surrender.
"That being said, Delcy Rodríguez's defiant televised address, condemning the US as an illegal invader, could be a performative act strictly in keeping with her side of a clandestine bargain...
Her public fury and vows of resistance provide essential political cover, allowing her to maintain credibility and authority with the Bolivarian base and military while privately adhering to the terms that permitted Maduro's removal.
This calculated display of defiance ensures the Venezuelan government surviving architecture can manage the transition, positioning Rodríguez as a leader of "resistance" rather than a collaborator in a negotiated surrender."
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"Yet despite Venezuela possessing advanced air defenses like the S-300 and portable MANPADS useful against helicopters, the Venezuelan military did not deploy them against the US assault.
Trump concluded by asserting that the United States maintained the option to execute further strikes against Venezuela if necessary.
The meticulously crafted narrative of a daring military raid, complete with operational specifics and tales of heroism, serves a crucial political purpose, to obscure the far more likely scenario of a negotiated surrender by Venezuela.
By glorifying the violent spectacle of a capture, the account actively suppresses the inconvenient truth that the operation's success almost certainly required, and resulted from, a prior agreement with powerful factions within the Maduro regime itself.
The Venezuelan government and military's primary allegiance was to its own institutional survival and the stability of the state it embodies.
This emphasis on overwhelming force masks a behind-the-scenes bargain where regime elites, particularly in the military and intelligence services, exchanged the president for guarantees of their own safety, political survival, and protection from prosecution, transforming a potential bloody invasion into a managed transition that served both the invading power and the existing power structure, at the expense of a revolutionary narrative."
“We stand for justice, truth and the value of a single human being.” With these simple but powerfully inspiring words, a life-time ago, the world held-out hope that at long last international law and accountability would progress from abstract, esoteric principle to momentous binding application. The Nuremberg Tribunals spoke directly to the pain and suffering of tens of millions of civilians swept up into the geo-political chambers of supremacist hate and violence, victimized by an unprecedented rampage of the relative few who committed a calculated, gruesome violation of human rights. Yet, before the ink had even dried on exalted ideals and commanding words, Europe was at it, once again, with the forcible implant of a generation of surviving victims into age-old Palestine, indifferent to how many new victims were crushed by its latest colonial project which continues brazen, unchecked and deadly all these decades later."
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/suite-madame-blue-styx-lies-and-damned
Once again, Max Blumenthal delivers the information and knowledge that the public so urgently needs in real time. Thank you, Max!
- Why Venezuela's Military did Not Fight? A negotiated surrender.
"That being said, Delcy Rodríguez's defiant televised address, condemning the US as an illegal invader, could be a performative act strictly in keeping with her side of a clandestine bargain...
Her public fury and vows of resistance provide essential political cover, allowing her to maintain credibility and authority with the Bolivarian base and military while privately adhering to the terms that permitted Maduro's removal.
This calculated display of defiance ensures the Venezuelan government surviving architecture can manage the transition, positioning Rodríguez as a leader of "resistance" rather than a collaborator in a negotiated surrender."
******************
"Yet despite Venezuela possessing advanced air defenses like the S-300 and portable MANPADS useful against helicopters, the Venezuelan military did not deploy them against the US assault.
Trump concluded by asserting that the United States maintained the option to execute further strikes against Venezuela if necessary.
The meticulously crafted narrative of a daring military raid, complete with operational specifics and tales of heroism, serves a crucial political purpose, to obscure the far more likely scenario of a negotiated surrender by Venezuela.
By glorifying the violent spectacle of a capture, the account actively suppresses the inconvenient truth that the operation's success almost certainly required, and resulted from, a prior agreement with powerful factions within the Maduro regime itself.
The Venezuelan government and military's primary allegiance was to its own institutional survival and the stability of the state it embodies.
This emphasis on overwhelming force masks a behind-the-scenes bargain where regime elites, particularly in the military and intelligence services, exchanged the president for guarantees of their own safety, political survival, and protection from prosecution, transforming a potential bloody invasion into a managed transition that served both the invading power and the existing power structure, at the expense of a revolutionary narrative."
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica3/globalelite_la581.htm
Wasn't Alvin Hellerstein the presiding judge over the 9/11 victims' compensation cases, turning down tort litigation and imposing gag orders?