More weasel words on the joke coup attempt... Archived Message Posted by Raskolnikov on May 1, 2019, 8:17 pm, in reply to "Very fair-minded interview with Guaido spokesperson by Emily Maitlis" Even the regime change cheerleader fraudian seems to accept they got their asses handed to them: Guaidó's uprising seems to have flatlined. What's next for Venezuela? Nicolás Maduro remains in power and most of Venezuela’s military top brass has pledged loyalty to Chávez’s unpopular successor "flatlines" sounds so much better than "completely failed", doesn't it? Also, "unpopular"? Compared to "What's his name? Who he?" the guy nobody knows or wants? But just look at the contradictions and utter mess of illogical thought going on in the rest of it: “Clearly this was a failure in the sense that this left the opposition weaker than they were before,” said David Smilde, a Venezuela expert from the Washington Office on Latin America advocacy group. Benjamin Gedan, the national security council’s Venezuela adviser during the Obama presidency, said Guaidó had envisioned mass defections from Venezuela’s intelligence services and military. ”Neither occurred,” he admitted. But nor was Guaidó’s movement out for the count. Anti-Maduro protests continued, with thousands taking to the streets again on Wednesday. In a sign of possible weakness, Maduro had made no attempt to permanently “knee-cap” the opposition with repression; demonstrators had not been cowed and the opposition maintained significant international support. “Dislodging a dictatorship that controls all the territory and monopolizes the use of force is difficult … But transitions often come unexpectedly and unexpectedly fast,” Gedan said, pointing to the recent uprisings in Sudan and Algeria. So he's weak for not clamping down and repressing the opposition by force, but a paragraph later he's a dictator who monopolises the use of force. Make your mind up! Also that "the opposition maintained significant international support" line....so what? The people of the country clearly don't want this imposter to be anywhere near their government so #### the international support. https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2019/may/01/venezuela-coup-protests-what-happens-next-guaido-maduro-latest Message Thread: Very fair-minded interview with Guaido spokesperson by Emily Maitlis - scrabb May 1, 2019, 5:48 pm Glad I missed it. - Raskolnikov May 1, 2019, 6:12 pm But surely your friends explained to you that Emperor Donald has spoken and so BiBiC belches out the - CJ May 1, 2019, 6:39 pm Admire you capacity to monitor this stuff in toto, Scrabb. I just can't bear to watch it any more.NM - Rhisiart Gwilym May 1, 2019, 7:31 pm More weasel words on the joke coup attempt... - Raskolnikov May 1, 2019, 8:17 pm   Searching