Sunday 24 February 2019

Maduro and his 2,000 corrupt generals must go

Why is the whole world not condemning Nicola Maduro? How can Putin actually support this monster who is desroying his country and killing his own citizens? When Bashar Assad started killing his people in the civil war in Syria there was worldwide outrage. But here we have a so-called leader of a country doing everything he can to stop the outside world from helping his people with food and medicine, even burning the aid which is totally outrageous and sickening. Some of his soldiers have defected, but just a handful. The only way forward now is for the military from the top to the bottom to rebel and escort Maduro and his henchmen from their residences. But in dictatorships like Venezuela, there is the fear of the unknown. When middle-ranking officers have defected and have tried to engineer a coup they have failed, and the price of failure in Venezuela has terrible consequences. People act when they know for sure that everyone around them is going to act as well. But in an envronment of fear, you can never be sure. This is why the 25 or so soldiers who have refused to act against the people have made a brave but pointless gesture. The military as a whole needs to rebel. This is what the US is counting on. But there seems no sign of mass defections, and the 2,000 generals in the Venezuelan army are so cosseted from the suffering experienced by the rest of the population that they have no incentive to turn against Maduro. He is their protector and provider. By the way, how is it possible that in an army of only about 67,000 active soldiers there are 2,000 generals? What on earth do they do every day, other than check on their bulging bank accounts? I fear that something terrible is going to break in Venezuela. At some point there is going to be a massive confrontation between the military and the people, and spurred on by Maduro and the 2,000 corrupt generals, there will be large-scale casualties. Then, pehaps then, the world will act, or more specifically the US will act, and Putin will have to be warned in the strongest terms to keep out!

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