Stop the war on Venezuela!

Three years ago, we sadly had to report that the US had increased the frequency of its wars from two per year to eight. In 2022, the US Congressional Research Service (CRS), similar to the Scientific Service of the German Bundestag, presented a document entitled "Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2022," which lists all military interventions by the United States. Between 1991 and 2022 alone, there were at least 251, or more than eight wars per year. Since 1798, the US has "let its weapons do the talking" 469 times.

However, this list does not include the many covert CIA operations and coup attempts, such as in Chile, Nicaragua, ... and, of course, the extermination of the indigenous population in its "own country" and elsewhere. The Nachdenkseiten website cites as an example the massacre at Wounded Knee on December 28, 1890, in which the 7th US Cavalry Regiment murdered over 300 defenseless members of various Dakota tribes.

Now Venezuela

The US has bombed the capital and kidnapped President Maduro and his wife. They are allegedly to be put on trial in the US. This war is not about drug trafficking, it is not about democracy – it is about stealing Venezuela's oil and dominating Latin America. It is an outrageous escalation of a murder campaign in international waters and piracy against civilians.

The anti-war movement ANSWER Coalition in the US writes: We must take to the streets and say no to another endless war! The people of this country do not want another war! A US war would mean death and destruction for the people of Venezuela. The war machine devours unimaginable sums of our tax money, while working families struggle to make ends meet. In a total war with Venezuela, it will be young people from the working class who will be sent to kill and die, not the children of the executives of ExxonMobil and LockheedMartin.

People must take to the streets and say no to Trump's war against Venezuela!

That is what we did last night after a call from the Berlin Peace Coordination. At a rally in front of the US Embassy at the Brandenburg Gate, the US war of aggression against the South American country, which violates international law, was condemned. The German government and the EU must act now. The much-vaunted “rules-based order,” international law, and the sovereignty of a state have been violated by this act of piracy. The logical response would be to impose immediate sanctions against the US, e.g.

• freezing all US assets in European banks,
• stopping all LNG and vehicle imports from the country,
• blocking all US internet giants such as Google, Facebook, X, Microsoft, Apple, ... or at least finally imposing a significant ban from now on.,
• entry bans for US government officials,,
• closure of US bases in Europe

We will also take to the streets in the coming days to demand this.

Read more https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/trump-kuendigt-machtuebernahme-in-venezuela-an-100.html

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