Then an actual conflict happens, and the western affiliated side just effortlessly wipes the floor with their global south opposition and shocks and humiliates them. The /pol/tards creep away, only to return a few weeks later and do it all again pretending like their previous humiliation never happened
>US BTFOing Wagner/Assadists in Syria (earliest example I can think of of this effect)
>Solemaini circus
>Ukraine war clusterfuck
>Operation Grim Beeper
>Collapse of Assad
>12 day war in Iran/Iran strike
>Venezuela
Honestly it seems that "quiet" is their greatest asset, for it lets them brag and live out their fantasies of supremacy without reality interfering. It's why the /pol/ influence was strongest here in the late 2010s and early 2020s.
This is all very confusing. Even the El Chapo shoot out was way more dramatic.
My personal conspiracy theory is that even the PSUV was getting tired of the bus driver. A backroom deal to throw Maduro out solves so many issues for everyone involved. Trump gets an easy win and some shoring up for low oil prices, the Venezuelan government can finally reintroduce the foreign experts they need to actually exploit their oil, the Venezuelan socialists can now hold Maduro up as a martyr and proof of the inexorable yankee aggression towards Latin America. The only loser is the US state department which will have the headache of trying to convince foreign nations that the US is still reliable while under an admin that treats their department like a joke, but Trump likely doesn't care because for him long term foreign policy objectives are subordinate to his own domestic reputation. I mean it's downright bizarre to take Maduro and then (seemingly as of this moment) just fuck off to let his VP take charge without so much as getting anything for the actual Venezuelan opposition, iirc Trump even said that Venezuela isn't ready for the opposition party to take over. I feel like my thinking on this is highly conspiratorial, but to me this seems like the natural follow-up for this is an uneasy detente where the PSUV is able to continue grinding out its control over Venezuela with a more stabilized oil industry at the cost of some humiliation.
108 posts and 5 image replies omitted.>>2628739I dunno what's more alarming: the fact that Putin is such a moron for failing to target a single Ukronazi leader in spite of car-bombed generals and attacks on his own person… or the fact that he appears to get no significant pushback whatsoever on this, not even from opposition parties.
>>2629013Do you think this is some kind of aberration?
The problem is unironically that Putin is so damn likable when you listen to him - the quiet confidence, the humor, etc. I think he's a gigantic cuck, but when I listen to him, all is forgiven until the next provocation he cucks a response to. I imagine he receives even more affection within Russia, which is not great, because it probably stops a lot of valid criticism.
>>2629013>>2629064It’s probably easy to be confident when you can ruin your political opposition’s lives easily if they get to uppity.