He is neither a theorist nor an artist

US public schools are basically Al Qaeda training hubs

this going to be an absolutely unpluggable source of intel leaks

How it should go for both long and short term survival is Russia and Mexico provide oil, China and Mexico provide food, and China provides solar and electrification.

The UK has demonstrated world-leading denial abilities for 400 years

A huge number of datacenters are in the construction phase

Are they? Or are they in the proposed construction phase?

Call me a vain self-flatterer, but perhaps it could be done without much blood?

The communes are coping

the revolution has been destroyed utterly

It was Venezuela, not me, that made a single commodity rule their entire economy.

It’s not 2015 anymore, but you’ve dug in your heels. You’re not going to listen to anyone explaining the way Venezuelan socialism has already overcome dependence on oil revenue, and I don’t even think it’s political; you’re just being a contrarian dick.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indian-oil-hpcl-buy-2-million-barrels-venezuelan-oil-trafigura-sources-say-2026-02-09/

2 million Venezuelan barrels to be delivered two months from now when Russia delivers almost 2 million barrels a day. Also,

New Delhi has not officially announced plans to halt Russian oil imports.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/more-us-venezuelan-crude-to-flow-into-india-refiners-asked-to-prioritize-these-oil-grades-economic-viability-in-doubt/articleshow/128203100.cms

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/business/india-russian-oil-trump-tariffs

Modi welcomed the reduced tariffs in a post on X, but he did not mention cutting purchases of Russian oil.

Venezuela is literally incapable of replacing Russian oil to India. At absolute best, Venezuela is producing a million barrels per day. It would take a decade to get the equipment there up to speed. You will see a decline in Russian oil only to the extent Venezuelan oil is able to replace it in a fashion that’s economically beneficial to India.

Pay attention. Every two or three months since he got in office Trump has claimed that Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil and it’s never been true.

The oil was the whole ball game.

No it fucking wasn’t, that’s my whole point. Your obstinance and ignorance about this is why everyone’s disagreeing with you. You are reducing everything to a single commodity. The oil revenue was already gone! Venezuela already didn’t have practical sovereignty over their oil exports. The specifics have changed and worsened, but this is not fundamentally new territory.

got India to stop buying Russian oil

This is no more true than it was the last five times trump said it

You’re saying that the control of oil exports being seized by force by the US is identical to the defeat of the Bolivarian Revolution outright and that the US got everything it wanted out of their attack in January. You’re claiming that the Venezuelan leadership has betrayed the revolution at home and in particular in regards to Cuba. All of this is wrong.

Yes, of course, the seizing of the Venezuelan oil industry is a defeat. It is a colonial theft of sovereignty over resources that strengthens the US position and weakens the Venezuelan and Cuban positions. This is not the same thing as the defeat of the revolution and it obviously falls short of what the US’s maximalist goals were.

Regarding the latter point, the US has not removed the PSUV from power or placed in power a compliant compraror leadership. Rodriguez and the rest of the leadership have not handed over oil control - they have lost it militarily and for the time being have no means to do anything but accept the meater pittance they’ll receive from oil revenue. But there are no major oil companies outside of Chevron willing to invest because they have absolutely no faith in the US’s ability to retain and stabilize that control in a way that they can profit from. Only a total seizure of state power and a subjugation of the entire revolution would achieve that. So the current situation is not dramatically different from the previous status quo - only Chevron freely exports, and the US directs where that oil goes. Venezuela receives a much smaller stream of oil revolution than they should. This is not a massive change. The biggest change is the blocking of oil to Cuba, but that is not a betrayal by Venezuela - it’s just a fact that they cannot penetrate the US naval blockade. The US has no meaningful control on the ground.

And that leads into the former point - that the revolution has been defeated. The Bolivarian Revolution was never about oil. Oil, as the supreme global commodity and Venezuela’s key resource, played a critical role in financing the revolution in its first decade. But the revolution was not just a pipeline of oil money to the people - it was and remains a society-wide effort of socialist construction, and absolutely nothing indicates that’s changing. The Bolivarian Revolution is not a top-down affair, but one of the working and oppressed masses building collective and communal economic power with the assistance of a revolutionary state. That remains the case. And the strangling of oil revenue didn’t start in January 2026 but over a decade ago with the US’s brutal blockade of the country, which cratered all oil revenue and crippled the capacity of the state to financially support the grassroots movement.

How did the revolution respond to the blockade? With the communal movement. Venezuela began to restructure its economy away from both private and state ownership to communal ownership. Following Chavez’s literal dying wish, the Venezuelan people, with only limited state involvement, have achieved strides in socialist construction not yet seen in human history. They already weaned themselves of total dependency on oil and adapted to a long-existing reality of low and unreliable oil revenue. The economic crisis there has been successfully managed for years due to the communal movement.

When you say the revolution is dead and compradors are in charge, you’re taking a single US military victory and extrapolating it to an entire political system change that simply isn’t borne out by the evidence. Venezuela remains under siege. Perhaps they can maneuver in this situation to secure more oil revenue than they could under the prior phase.

Your take is completely undialectical because it a surface kevel reading of a single portion of the revolutionary process at a single point in time as indicative of the entire societal transformation that is already 25 years underway. The revolution is not dead until both the revolutionary state and the communal movement are defeated, and for now all we see is that the state has taken a painful but by no means fatal blow.

land reform land reform land reform land reform

“The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup”.

Real ‘Cicero claiming Catiline wants to kill all Romans and eradicate all life on earth’ type shit

If Trump got to sit down at the Deals Table with Diaz-Canel, it could absolutely lead to significant opening up of the blockade so Trump can make a Deal.

I simple refer to it as the Republic of Samsung

Have we ever seen deployments like this without the empire carrying out a strike?

We certainly know that under Trump these always precipitate actual military action. In the two previous examples - Venezuela to kidnap Maduro and Iran to bomb the nuclear facilities - they were both ‘restrained’ or ‘limited’ strikes rather than entry into an ongoing war. So my best guess is they’re lining up to do something similar - blow up the IRGC HQ or something and then walk away with their hands up.

of course not as a whole jesus christ

I’m sorry, you don’t get to act all put-upon when you get called out for your reactionary positions