Please include sources for any claims; baseless speculation is counterproductive. Remember that this is not a win for the US, just another outburst of a dying empire.
Please include sources for any claims; baseless speculation is counterproductive. Remember that this is not a win for the US, just another outburst of a dying empire.
Supposedly Russia is willing to “give US free rein in Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine”? What are people’s thoughts on this?
From AP News
I ain’t trusting the bastards at AP news.
Much like the claim Venezuela’s VP sold Maduro out so she could become prez this is yet another line of disinfo designed to confuse and divide.
Sounds like bullshit. Their victory in Ukraine is already assured, they have no reason whatsoever to make a deal like that.
I call bullshit.
I don’t buy it. What would this even mean in practice? It just really goes to show the condescending perspective these “journalists” have against the global south. It’s another one on the tally for Trump=bad because he didn’t do it the “right way”.
Do you think it’s part of the manufacturing of consent to give the idea that Venezuela is all alone and their allies will abandon them in hopes of weakening morale within Venezuela?
I suspect its the faction of western capital who feel the faction of capital supporting Trump’s administration is not belligerent enough against Russia; the latter who feel collectively they should cut their losses against perceived competing capitalist countries and focus on socialist countries and the pro-social projects that make up the Pink Tide of the Americas.
I no longer believe in manufacturing consent as I feel it starts with the ideal of convincing other people through ideas rather than their material conditions that then form peoples’ beliefs. (Dialectical materialism: the material is always before the idea). In essence, I believe what is considered manufacturing consent is in reality a narrative for license of imperial bigotry (which is why people aren’t keep “falling” for new lies; they are instead intelligently looking for new lies that backup their imperial relations as a class).
What we consider as “manufacturing consent” is actually a social advertisement of the current spectrum of acceptable ideas to publically believe that will not ruin one’s social standing in society (ie the chance to become a capitalist or maintain being a capitalist, or the chance for a worker to find paid work or keep paid work). Though this may be seen as the “stick” remember the real “carrot” of the average westerners’ lives being subsided by the explitation of the global south.
Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky) < Inventing Reality (Parenti) < “Brainwashing” is not real (Day):
https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
https://redsails.org/false-witnesses/
https://redsails.org/dont-work-that-way/
I thought about your question more. It may well be a signifier to embolden right wing parties and media in the Americas about the isolation of the left in the western hemisphere. I saw Prashad’s interview on Breakthrough News which echoed the above and talks about the Angry Tide vs Pink Tide.
If AP is saying Russia said that, then the entire jig would be up. This is the same as the Economist saying Rodríguez is Trump’s ideal candidate because she’s got experience with oil.
Just more narrative flailing. They are throwing all these lies hoping that some of them stick to justify their actions but none of them will.