Equally baffling and not surprising is the support expressed by a known front of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (Solidarity of Drivers and Operators’ Organizations Nationwide) or PISTON. In a published statement, the group called the U.S. to keep their “hands off” Venezuela. This follows the recent military strike ordered by President Donald Trump and the successful capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
The statement is pretty typical as far as Filipino communist blurbs go…
PISTON condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent military aggression and illegal seizure of power by the United States government, led by Donald Trump, in Venezuela. We stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan working class in resisting this naked display of imperialist banditry led by the US imperialist regime.
The US government’s mask has completely fallen off. Donald Trump’s declaration that the US will “run” Venezuela and that US oil companies will “start making money” confirms that this is not about “democracy” or “drugs.” This is a desperate, violent scramble to secure the world’s largest oil reserves for the profit of American monopoly capitalists. It is a blatant act of plunder disguised as a “police action.”
And, of course, no communist blurb is complete without this original…
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STOP US INTERVENTION IN VENEZUELA!
JUNK THE OIL DEREGULATION LAW!
DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM!
LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!
What is it with commie rhetoric? And these people wonder why they remain a mere fringe political subculture. They seem to issue the most tone-deaf messaging in the Philippines’ political landscape!
So too with Akbayan for its part which, in a post on X, crows that their mob “stands firmly with the people of Venezuela in their fight for justice, freedom, human rights, sovereignty, and democracy.” As such, Akbayan, “call on the Trump regime to abandon all plans to illegally run Venezuela, cease all its hostile actions, and to withdraw all its military forces and assets from the country and the wider region.” Trump must be trembling all over.
Not surprising, yes? But here’s the baffling part. They make like the US agenda being “all about oil” is news to us. But of course it is. Filipino commies seem to have been living under a rock over the last 200 years! Why invade a Third World shithole if it has nothing to offer, right? Consider how the US simply cut the Philippines loose back in 1946 when it already had the inertia to keep it within its orbit. It’s simple, really. The Philippines was not worth the trouble.
All the Philippines has are 120 million intellectually-stunted irrevocably-corruptible people who are all members of cults of personality. Venezuela, on the other hand, has one of the planet’s largest petroleum reserves. It’s easily a no-brainer. A Venezuelan colony is an asset. The Philippines is a liability not worth the $100,000 per hour per aircraft cost of a jet fighter mission.
When will the Philippines’ thought leaders understand that “international law” is a mere illusion — that, ultimately, weak nations only exist because powerful ones allow them to. That, when a resource crunch hits, the only clear option is to take what one can take. It’s that simple and the only consistent order of things over all of human history.
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