*End US Intervention against Venezuela and the Americas* Statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US)
THE UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK (U.S.) condemns Trump's imperialist attack on Venezuela and extralegal kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro Moros and Cilia Flores. As the Ukrainian democratic socialist organization Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) quite rightly states: “The morning of 3 January marks the beginning a widespread attack on democracy and the relative peace of the peoples of Latin America – and far beyond.” Ukrainians demonstrating in solidarity with Venezuela The arrogant pronouncements of Donald Trump and Marco Rubio that “we will run Venezuela” make it clear that drug trafficking allegations against Maduro and unidentified boat crews were always a smokescreen. The motives for US military actions in and near Venezuela are oil, minerals, and dominance of Latin America – exactly as the Trump regime’s new “National Security Strategy” proclaims Washington's intent to establish uncontested U.S. control of the Western Hemisphere. Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” for the Americas enables and justifies the annexationist invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia. It invites other imperialist powers to enforce spheres of influence, one for Russia in line with Putin’s claim that Russia is the “natural” and inevitable overlord of eastern Europe, the Caucasus and parts of central Asia, and another for China’s ambitions to annex Taiwan. Trump's doctrine fully supports the ongoing Israeli-US genocide in Gaza, violent settler-military ethnic cleansing in the Palestinian West Bank, and the drive for mass expulsion of the Palestinian population. With Putin, Trump seeks to return to might-makes-right, a politics of carving the globe into zones in which powerful countries dominate their neighbors in the absence of international law. This is a politics of, by, and for rule of corporations and oligarchs. Trump’s attack may have removed Maduro, but it has left the hated Maduro regime intact. Trump and Rubio make no pretense that they favor any sort of democracy in Venezuela or anywhere else. They have made clear that their only interests are oil, money, and power, and that they are willing to make a bargain with the rump PSUV government, now led by Maduro’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez. All Trump and Rubio want is to move the authoritarian, repressive and deeply corrupt regime into the column of those that support the United States. Trump has already signaled that his successful kidnapping of Maduro and Flores will be followed by a U.S. offensives against Greenland, Cuba, Colombia, Canada and other Western Hemisphere targets. We agree with Sotsialnyi Rukh's statement when it says: "The struggle against Maduro's dictatorship and the struggle against American imperialism are not mutually exclusive. They are two sides of the same conflict, in which people become pawns in political games. This is why today we must speak out in solidarity with the people of Venezuela, the same solidarity that Venezuelans showed towards Ukraine in its resistance to Russian aggression." Venezuelans demonstrating in solidarity with Ukraine Just as we support Ukraine’s war for survival and Ukrainian workers’ internal struggles for their rights, it is essential for progressive and antiwar forces to stand against Trump’s invasion and to uphold the right of the Venezuelan people to fight for their own independent and democratic future. Right now, the leading popular mobilizations in the United States are the community-based movements to defend immigrant communities from ICE raids and the Trump regime’s reign of terror. Linking up with this magnificent resistance at home will be key to developing the broad, mass anti-imperialist struggles that this dangerous moment so desperately requires. Venezuelan demonstrator with sign reading “Ukraine, we also resist!” We urge everyone to read the Sotsialnyi Rukh statement in full. A machine-aided English translation is online at https://ukraine-solidarity.eu/news-and-analyses/social-movement-whats-wrong-with-us-aggression-against-venezuela ( https://ukraine-solidarity.eu/news-and-analyses/social-movement-whats-wrong-with-us-aggression-against-venezuela ). For the original Ukrainian language text: https://rev.org.ua/shho-ne-tak-z-napadom-na-venesuelu/ ( https://rev.org.ua/shho-ne-tak-z-napadom-na-venesuelu/ ) The latter link includes photos of Ukrainians and Venezuelans demonstrating in solidarity with each other. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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