People outside of venezuela are celebrating

People inside are anxious calm, streets are almost empty and everyone just watch and waits carefully

“I’ve lived in Canada for 18 years now—long enough to shed my illusions, but not long enough to stop being stunned by what I see. When I first arrived, I thought Canadians were polite—too polite, almost unbearably so. The endless “sorrys,” the soft tones, the careful avoidance of conflict. It felt harmless at first, even charming in contrast to the bluntness of my Hungarian, German, or Eastern European roots. But then I realized something deeper, something darker: Canadians apologize too much for the meaningless, and never for what matters.

They say sorry when they bump into you, when they’re five seconds late, when they interrupt. But they do not apologize when they abuse power. They do not apologize when they destroy someone’s life through bureaucracy, cowardice, or complicity. They do not apologize when they ostracize courage, when they punish truth, when they betray integrity. They apologize for nothingness—and when the moment demands moral courage, they hide.

They hide behind procedure. Behind policy. Behind institutions. Behind NDAs. Behind committees, processes, protocols. Behind phrases like “we’re reviewing this internally” and “that’s beyond my authority.” They hide behind the pretense of empathy while quietly perpetuating injustice. They hide behind performative busy-ness: “I wish I had time,” “I’m swamped,” “I’ve been unwell.” There is enormous power in powerlessness—and Canadians wield it masterfully.

I used to think this country was built on the legacy of bold nations—the literary depth of England, the fire of Ireland, the courage of France, the principle of fraternity, equality, democracy. But those roots have withered under the snow. What’s left is a culture that confuses niceness with goodness, procedure with justice, and quiet compliance with peace.

This isn’t the land of Shakespeare anymore, nor of Napoleonic visionaries. It’s a land of castratos—polite, sterilized souls who prefer comfort to confrontation, and optics to truth.

Canada’s greatest tragedy is not its cruelty, but its cowardice.”

The currency war is a subset of the energy war.

100% agreed. Don't ask morons like Chomsky or Mearsheimer. Ask people who actually live or lived under totalitarian regimes what they feel after their 'leaders' are toppled. I felt relief and joy, even if the times that followed in 1990's Poland were difficult.

Looking to see how our household can stop supporting the fossil fuel shitshow. I've seen enough.

I really hope you are right!

Well well...don't jump to conclusions and let's wait and see. US shock and awe strategy usually backfires after few weeks.

#hollywood wars

Simple. They are tyrants too. It was never my point to cherrypick.

I do think Venezuela under communism has been full tyranny yes...

I agree. It isn't out of concern for Venezuelan people that this was done. I think Malos was pointing out that with Maduro gone they are rid of a tyrant but what will replace the tyrant remains uncertain and could be way worse. We need to be cautious in our assumptions. I am ignorant of how things are on the ground there and my opinion doesn't carry much weight but I worry about the outcome.

It's hard for people who haven't lived under full tyranny to understand your points but you're right. Keep going.

Yeah, go ally with the war mongers, genocide supporters and imperialists.

Remind me of this post in one's year and we'll see how much of an ally they USA actually is.

But Assad was a Russian ally and Russia lost a Mediterranean port.

No, but they're getting more accurate and predictive.

Russia went around promising military protection and arms exports to these sort of regimes, and then they got themselves bogged down in a forever-war in Ukraine, and now the USA can just do whatever it wants and Russia is looking like a very useless ally.

That is going to be important, going forward, in Iran. The USA has the only effective military in the world, at the moment, and they're on some sort of regime-change spree.

I took a nap and woke up and Trump had taken over Venezuela.

Oh, I wasn't suggesting that a conflict would be beneficial. I also don't know, if the government has enough public backing to launch a war, anyway.

I'm just suggesting that they know their data is overly optimistic, so they're probably taking that into account.

The India-Pakistan conflicts didn't really try Chinese equipment against Western equipment, I think. Don't India and Pakistan both buy from Russia?