Starting from the famous phrase of Clausewitz: "the war is the continuation of the policy by other means", it would be possible to wonder:
What is politics?
When does it stop being political and turn into war?
Garcia Pelayo emphasizes that the essence of politics is to preserve peace, which should not be understood as tolerance with its transgressor or submission to violence, which would be nothing else, than postpone the war.
One could say, then, that politics exist to avoid war, the seizure of power through armed struggle or multifactorial strategies and tactics of subjection of one sovereign country to the interests of another.
For this reason, the fundamental objective of the policy is to preserve peace and respect for national sovereignty.
The strategies and tactics of modern wars of multifactorial subjection can be confused with the internal political struggle, which is precisely one of its preliminary objectives.
But there is no doubt that this is a war, when a state or non-state transnational actor intervenes to subject a country to its interests through direct or indirect actions that can be lethal or non-lethal, military or non-military, more even when this actor manifests it and undertakes actions within the scheme of modern multifactorial warfare.
In the case of Venezuela, the intervention of the US empire employing leaders of the Venezuelan right as agents of war is more than evident. Its main objective is to regain control of our oil wealth that managed at will throughout the twentieth century, and that Hugo Chávez recovered in 2003 leading the full exercise of our national sovereignty supported by the civic military union.
All Venezuelans must act so that political actors desist from the war and return to politics based on mutual recognition, respect for the ideas of the other, the preservation of peace and national sovereignty.
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