Bernie
Sanders disappointed the real Leftists again with his stance
concerning Venezuela. In a latest tweet he actually adopted the
imperialist regime-change narrative that is used to justify another
US intervention against a sovereign country. Bernie tweeted:
“The
people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The
Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow
humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against
protesters.”
Many
real progressives immediately pointed out Bernie's disappointing
statement. Abby Martin tweeted:
“you
know better than to endorse a stunt led by war criminals who have
snuck weapons in aid shipments in the past. This stance will not make
democrats like you more and will only lose you support from
socialists”
you know better than to endorse a stunt led by war criminals who have snuck weapons in aid shipments in the past. This stance will not make democrats like you more and will only lose you support from socialists— Abby Martin (@AbbyMartin) February 23, 2019
Ben
Norton also responded to Bernie: “The UN and Red Cross both
oppose the Trump administration's fake "humanitarian aid"
stunt in Venezuela. It's a Trojan horse to push right-wing regime
change. It has nothing to do with helping people. Why is a
self-declared "socialist" falling for this?”
The UN and Red Cross both oppose the Trump administration's fake "humanitarian aid" stunt in Venezuela. It's a Trojan horse to push right-wing regime change. It has nothing to do with helping people.— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) February 23, 2019
Why is a self-declared "socialist" falling for this?https://t.co/KxZHNxNKYV
Then,
Kyle Kulinski made a video actually to school Bernie for this
mistake, summing up why it is important for the real Leftists not to
fall into the trap of the regime-change narratives. Kyle rightfully
points out:
“...
people who have been following this closely and who are on the Left,
all of us realized immediately what's going on here. This is feeding
into a BS narrative directly from the neocon establishment, which is
now running everything ...”
and
“...
basically in the 1980s, during the Cold War, Elliott
Abrams
did this exact same trick. What he would do is he would send aid to
various countries that we wanted to topple, but it wasn't aid. It was
actually weapons and it went into right-wing militias to try to do
violent overthrowing of democratically
elected governments. Now, is that what's happening here? Yes ...”
Everything
Kyle says in that video is 100%
right
until he reaches a point where he makes the same mistake with Bernie.
Kyle, suddenly felt the need to 'declare' that “...
I'm not in the crowd that says you can't say any bad word ever about
a guy like Maduro cause I do think he's bad and I thought Saddam was
bad and I think all these dictators are bad ...”
Apart
from the fact that Kyle heavily contradicted himself if we look at
his statements early in the video, he should know that all the cases
are not the same. Nicolas Maduro is not Saddam Hussein. Maduro is the
democratically elected president of Venezuela through elections that
held with the presence of international observers.
So
Kyle, please be careful. One phrase actually erased every solid
argument in your video. Because this is one of the most fundamental
strategies of the
imperialist
regime-change machine. That is, to put under the label ‘dictator’
any leader who will dare to defy the absolute domination of the US
empire. Whether he has been democratically elected or not.
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