Francisco Poleo
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What a homemade drone is capable of. Now imagine a B-1B bomber.
Francisco Poleo48,722 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
What stood out to me about María Corina Machado’s Face the Nation interview wasn’t any specific statement, but the absence of an argument she no longer seems interested in making. There was no insistence that Edmundo González Urrutia is a president-in-waiting, no effort to keep alive the idea that July can still be enforced as an unfinished act, and no pressure to frame the election as something that must be reversed rather than contextualized. The opposition, in general, is now speaking as if July already did what it was meant to do, and that what it was meant to do was never to govern. That shift isn’t rhetorical and it isn’t emotional but rather structural. July produced legitimacy, not leverage. González Urrutia unified the opposition vote and made the fraud undeniable, which was always the upper limit of that strategy. There was never a credible path from symbolic presidency to actual control without either a fracture inside the armed forces or an enforcement mechanism from the outside, and neither was ever realistically available. That reality was understood long before it was acknowledged. Another election resolves what July could not without forcing anyone into a corner. It allows the regime to reset without openly conceding defeat, it gives Washington a way to manage continuity instead of rupture, and it offers the opposition a path to translate moral legitimacy into institutional authority without triggering a breaking point. Most importantly, it avoids the scenario everyone is quietly working to prevent, which is a moment where force becomes unavoidable and the process spins out of control. The same reasoning makes the rumors about Diosdado Cabello going into exile or Vladimir Padrino López being pushed aside hard to take seriously. Both men carry U.S. indictments and $25 million bounties, which means that stepping away from power now would make them more vulnerable, not less. Sitting ducks. Exile without guarantees is exposure, not protection. Their leverage comes from staying embedded in the structures they still influence, and any form of legal relief would only make sense once the transition is complete rather than while it is still being negotiated. This is why the transition feels slow and unsatisfying to those expecting a decisive break. Processes that involve indictments, bounties, and armed institutions do not resolve themselves through spectacle or moral claims. What is unfolding is not an attempt to enforce July, but a deliberate effort to prepare what comes next, and once that is accepted, the apparent contradictions begin to disappear.
Francisco Poleo31,342 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
Hot take nobody wants to hear: an election in Venezuela right now could be a disaster for the opposition. The Chavista machine is still standing. The CNE, the colectivos, the patronage networks — none of that has been dismantled. A vote under those conditions doesn’t produce a democratic outcome. Rubio said it today: “We don’t want to wait too long. But you don’t want to move too fast either, because the whole thing can break.” María Corina Machado has said you need close to a year to run a legitimate process and she’s not wrong. The desperation for elections is understandable, but desperation is not a strategy. 🎥 Hannity/FoxNews
Francisco Poleo11,928 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
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