Angelo Giuliano & More: The siege on Venezuela

Is This the New Shape of War? The Venezuela Precedent***

What defines war today? It is no longer just the sound of artillery or the movement of armies. It has become something quieter and far more patient. Look closely at Venezuela. What you see there is a test, a blueprint for a new kind of conflict. This is a war of pressure and isolation.

Venezuela is the laboratory, and the experiment being run there threatens to become a standard playbook for how powerful nations can force weaker ones to obey. Think about the method. First, the story must be told. A country’s complex reality is simplified:

Here, come up with a drug trafficking BS story. It becomes an easy story of good fighting evil. This story is broadcast everywhere to justify what comes next. It makes the world believe that aggressive action is not aggression at all, but a necessary act of moral duty.

Then the true siege begins. But there are no visible walls. Instead, the blockade is built from financial rules and trade bans. A nation’s economy is slowly strangled. Its money becomes worthless. Food and medicine cannot get in. The goal is clear: make life so unbearable for ordinary people that they will demand change themselves.

The battlefield is the supermarket aisle and the hospital ward. The weapons are inflation and scarcity. Is this not a cruel way to fight?

The final stage is forced surrender. With the country brought to its knees, an ultimatum is delivered. The choices are surrender or more suffering. Give up control of your nation’s wealth. Hand over political power. The message is simple: you cannot refuse. When the survival of your entire society is at stake, how can you say no?

This is the dangerous new model being tested. If it works in Venezuela, what will stop its use elsewhere? Which nation will be next? Old targets like Nicaragua and Cuba would face this new, sharper tool. Even allies might one day feel its sting if they step out of line.

This strategy is clean for those who use it. It is easy to deny. It is brutally effective. Victory is no longer measured in captured land, but in a nation’s broken will.

Venezuela stands as a warning. The world must ask itself a simple question: Is this the future we accept? Is this the new, silent shape of war?

Commentary – Amarynth: 

Vnezuela is slipping deeper into a position of being under siege.  More oil tankers are not going into the area, because there is fear that more tankers will be seized in acts of undisguised piracy.  https://diarioversionfinal.com/mundo/petroleros-cambian-de-rumbo-tras-incautacion-de-crudo-venezolano-por-ee-uu/

Trump, without hiding it, is supporting his supporters in elections across the region. In Honduras, Trump openly meddled in the election, trying to put a right-wing US puppet in power. The fraud was so blatant, after 2 weeks there is still no winner. The US backed a military coup in Honduras in 2009. 

Chevron has just reduced the price of Venezuelan crude for US refineries following the seizure of the oil tanker.  Venezuelan oil price fell below US$50 in November as tensions with US rise.

Venezuela announced that it is “immediately terminating any contract or negotiation involving the supply of gas” to Trinidad and Tobago and accuses the government of that island of being involved in the seizure of an oil tanker.

The baseball leagues of Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic announced Monday to the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (CBPC) that they will not be able to participate in the Caribbean Series Caracas 2026, scheduled from February 1 to 7, citing “external situations” outside their control.  They say that Venezuela is perfectly able to stage the series, and this is an external circumstance.

I believe the fishermen do not go fishing, which deprives the Venezuelan people of everyday food.

The US is positioned in the area, its navy like a bully grandpa, aged and demented octopus.  They overfly whatever they want to overfly and shoot whatever they want to shoot.  I wonder sometimes who instructed whom?  In Gaza, the zionists shoot fisherboats and kids on the beach.  In Gaza, the Palestinians cannot move in or out.  In Gaza, the Palestinians are deprived of food.  In Gaza, the genocide continues, and a peace agreement is an attempted appeasement of genocide.  If this trend of siege continues, we will see the entry-level picture of another genocide.  The cry of ‘Maduro must go’ is the same as Assad must go, and Syria is in travail.  It is the same cry that Hamas must go, and Hezbollah must lay down arms.  Just as the drug accusations are nonsense, so is the idea that Venezuela will benefit if Maduro goes.