At least seven explosions, low-flying aircraft, and one column of smoke have been seen in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, according to eye-witness reports.
The southern area of the capital, near a major military base, was also without electricity.
Venezuela’s government did not immediately reply to AP’s request for comment.
The cause and and precise locations of the disturbances were not immediately clear.
Update: US President Donald Trump says the US has captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Hopefully this ends up just being another relatively minor step in the progression of this conflict, but (probable) air raids on another nations capital does sound like something that could escalate quickly.
Let’s be real, they’re doing a coup to hand over oil rights to US companies.
It’s the only reason they’re there
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Fuck me I have only been up for an hour and I am already exhausted.
And there goes the chances for a minor incident. I guess I’ll just hope it stays below the level of us getting dragged into another war that we shouldn’t need to be involved in…
If you want to make sure that happens, please show up tomorrow:
Let the PM and the cabinet know we won’t accept another US imperialist invasion.
(That’s who has the power to send troops: https://www.pmc.gov.au/resources/memorandum-government-conventions-armed-conflict)
Just ignore the far right but jobs here.
Where did you hear about that? Is there a link? I never see any info on planned protests on Lemmy, which is a shame. Is this usually Facebook?
The image in question I yoinked from here (not part of this group): https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026-01/event/emergency-actions-hands-venezuela-stop-bombings-melbourne
I just found out about this via word of mouth (well, via chat groups).
This came about very last minute, I don’t think any one group in particular organised this.
aussie.zone does not seem to be somewhere for organising (communities need to be approved by the admin). Though haven’t actually tried to make a “activism”/“events” community, so it may well be approved.
Else, I’ve just had a bit of a search on quokk.au:
Perhaps I’ll encourage people to post there. (Seems aussie.zone hasn’t synced that community yet, probably because no one has searched it until now)
Thanks for the links. There’s nothing where I live, but I expected. I’ll keep an eye on quokk.au, although I think that’s basically just one guy.
standing up for a dictator? what the hell have they put in your drugs
This is not the way to stand up to authoritarianship. Australia has to keep out of this, even thoough it is damaging to do so, it undoubtedly is. There is no clean slate here for Aus. Unless all of south america stand up against US, there is nothing we can do.
Australia has to keep out of this
I mean it looks like an entirely self contained war between the US and Venezuela that has nothing to do with us but Frog has put:
Let the PM and the cabinet know we won’t accept another US imperialist invasion.
Fuck that, they can invade all the way as far as I’m concerned, you won’t find me standing up for
The Board alleged that Maduro administration could be responsible thousands of extra-judicial killings, more than 12,000 cases of arbitrary detentions, more than 290 cases of torture, attacks against the judiciary and a humanitarian crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of people.[264]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolás_Maduro#Human_rights
He is an absolutely vile evil human being, I’ll leave it to you humanitarians to stand up for him
People in Venezuela cheering as a poster of the evil dictator is torn down:
https://files.ikt.id.au/hwdeza.MP4
Left wing progressives in Australia: noooo 😭 lets get out there and protest 🤡
I’m not defending the Venezuelan government.
But this 100% a US imperialist war for natural resources. This is their bread and butter.
If this was actually about intervention into Venezuela in a benevolent way, it would have been brought in front of the UN, or at the very, very least NATO. Or something. Anything.
Make no mistake, this has nothing to do with toppling a dictatorship, and everything to do with oil. Again.
It’s an open secret.
We’re going to protest to tell our government to stay the fuck out of it and condemn the US’s unilateral actions.
There is no “rules based order”, only might makes right.
This and the Venezuelan government being a dictatorship are not mutually exclusive.
I’m not defending the Venezuelan government.
Yes you are, you just apparently don’t seem to realise it
But this 100% a US imperialist war for natural resources. This is their bread and butter
ok straight to conspiracy theories, cool
I’ve had enough left wing conspiracy theories for one day so I’m out
You really need to learn how international norms and laws have helped protect Australia. The problem here isn’t getting rid of a dictator, the problem here is the precedent this sets. The US just made every one of their allies much less safe in this world, at a time when they’re pulling back from their commitments as allies.
Question you have to ask yourself now,
What stops China from coming and lopping off the Pilbara? The only thing now is raw power, of which, we only have a little. So is the US going to come to support Aus, can we still count on them? If you look at their behaviour around Ukraine, it seems their ‘friendship’ is pretty bloody fragile these days.
What about Taiwan now? Or some of the Japanese islands? How do you think those putative allies are feeling about this?
You want to set a precedent of our times? This just did.
Look at my comment history from yesterday, i wrote a long comment response that goes into the new geopolitical threat this country and the world now faces.
The US just made every one of their allies much less safe in this world
Venezuela was not a nice place and definitely not one of the good guys
What stops China from coming and lopping off the Pilbara?
Our alliances and defence capabilities, that’s how it is, that’s how it has always been
that’s the primary reason we’re spending billions on AUKUS and coincidentally Japan wants in as well
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/japan/japan-role-in-us-uk-australia-defense-pact/
same with Taiwan, they have the:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_shield
Which they’ve been building for decades
It’s why for years we have been the US’s lapdog going into wars we never would have because we rely on them for protection
It’s why we have spent trillions over the previous decades on defence
This is why when I see things like
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GH5A1XDCA
i facepalm, you can’t fend off an invasion with twitter posts
it’s why i want a much much stronger alliance with europe, its why i want a far stronger alliance with ukraine, its why i want us to have drone factories making millions of drones and having the spare capacity to send them to ukraine
This idea of rules based order hasn’t been true for a long time, if ever, there was like most of the 20th century a unique set of circumstances as china was in its century of humiliation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
and the united states is not nearly as bad as any of the nutter states iran/most of africa/most of middle east if they had the same technological capacity and capability and the UN got to pretend it had power
nothing has changed overall from what i can see in terms of might makes right, just who america is targeting and the fact china is returning to its previous former glory as the worlds super power
This isn’t about standing up for a dictator or not, this is about a few questions. Trump just suggested the following answers.
If a country doesn’t like the leader of another country and how they ruin it, can they intervene? YES.
Does a leader need any sort of approval before they intervene? NO.
What sort of intervention can they do? BOMBING AND KIDNAPPING ARE JUST FINE TO FORCE REGIME CHANGE.
This implications of this internally are big enough within the US, but internationally we are setting precedent for these same answers to be used against any country at any time. What would be different about Russia or China doing the same to any country they disprove of? What’s to stop them from using it as a flimsy excuse for imperialism?
Hold up, surely america isn’t bombing Venezuela now…
It does appear that they have, as of a few minutes ago the article is now saying Venezuela’s government has accused the US and that a anonymous US official told Reuters the US was performing strikes in the country.
Trump:
- Year 1 : Fuck up the USA
- Year 2: Fuck up the world
trump, that backstabbing bastard, has used bombs against another nation, he should have sent to Ukraine. He has proven, just like putin, that any country need nukes now. This is a horrible escalation. We will enter a new multi-front cold war era because of that shithead.
