Oh Odell.

The American gov't has been killing innocent Venezuelan fishermen for months, leading to this.

Julian Assange filed a criminal complaint over the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, poised to take over the new gov't. She has actively and publicly supported Trump’s attacks to remove Maduro and assume power. She has also backed attacks on Palestinians.

It’s been going on for a while.

US has a long history of intervention through opposition leaders, military force, coups, covert CIA operations, economic pressure, and diplomatic coercion across the Global South, all to protect its economic interests.

This was a template move.

There are many narratives depending on which convinces you to justify this act, just pick one. Drugs. Peace. Liberation. Socialism. China etc etc. It worked during the Cold War. In today’s information era, the world sees right through it and people are pissed.

If the American gov’t put the same effort into developing real competence at home, things would look very different. You don’t need to steal another country's oil and minerals.

I’m afraid America still doesn’t get how strong the world is without it. European gov’t are just as weak, that’s what happens when you take away their financial sovereignty. Today, if the Eastern world or the Global South strikes back, leadership could flip but they are choosing peace, calm, and respect for international law.

What troubles me is the disconnect between advocating for Bitcoin and individual sovereignty while ignoring how state power systematically undermines the sovereignty of other nations.

Wanna liberate people? Empower them to build and defend their own systems, not coerce them from the outside.