• Lussy [he/him, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    Oh, there’s jack shit China can do now aside from

    You think sending troops or their navy to Venezuela

    Which they will never do. They could have built Venezuela’s productive capacity to actually refine the massive amounts of heavy crude oil, but they didn’t. Venezuela has been able to do NOTHING with their mineral resources for nearly a decade.

    They’re already supplying arms, materiel and forgiving debts, to act as if they are doing nothing is silly,

    Am I supposed to pat them on the back for this? They do business with everybody.

    • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      6 days ago

      Which they will never do.

      As circumstances stand I agree, but you didn’t answer my question as objective material reality stands right now do you think they should deploy the PLA and PLAN to Venezuela?

      They’ve invested(with the profits from gained their hybrid market system) in Venezuela and its oil industry(most went to production rather than domestic refinement but not all), even while under US sanction

      And have provided a critical economic lifeline outside of the US/NATO/IMF order, which while not as effective as kinetically opposing US imperialism, is still far better than doing nothing but wringing hands from an ideologically pure position

      Am I supposed to pat them on the back for this? They do business with everybody.

      No you’re supposed to recognize this is far more than almost any other country is doing in solidarity, and tell me what else you think they should be doing?