For jimtcl (the production-ready minimalistic tcl implementation which antires started (with full closures & gc'able lambdas) - probably an outgrowth of picol), you can get static "(some) batteries included" binaries at:

https://github.com/dbohdan/jimsh-static

For full tcl with the kitchen sink, bathtub & shower included, for android (hence the name) & regular Linux:

https://androwish.org/home/home

Its almost as if someone charged you $$ for the privilege of reading it, and you now feel scammed, or something?

Perhaps you can request a refund. Would that help?

- an executable header

- which then fuse mounts an embedded read-only heavily compressed filesystem

- whose contents are delivered when requested (the entire dwarf/squashfs isn't uncompressed at once)

- allowing you to pack as many of the dependencies as you wish to carry in your archive (so, just like an appimage, any dependency which isn't packed can be found "live"

- and doesn't require any additional, custom infrastructure to run/serve

Neat!

But the celebratory pics, which were claimed to be from Venezuela, but were actually from Miami and elsewhere (including, I kid you not, an attempt to pass off Argentine's celebrating a Copa America win) ... that is indicative of "the vast majority of Venezuela"?

If I were smarter, I might start to wonder why, if President Maduro was so unpopular, why would his abductors have to resort to fake footage - which was systematically outed & destroyed by independent journalists within 24 hours? I mean, surely, enough real footage should exist.

Probably better not to have inconvenient non-US-approved independent thoughts like that.

There are no news sites claiming large daily protests that you claim.

It just took a few years for the sanctions to bite, as the Venezuelans conserved & used stockpiles.

Again, a completely dishonest take. Speaks volumes, when most defenders of todays criminality keep spouting arguments to this effect.

Even if they are aided by others, they would still be fighting for THEIR freedom, in THEIR land.

(distinguishing the good guys from the baddies becomes easier, when you strip away the fluff)

A "proxy" is someone who primarily serves someone elses interests first. Their own interests are subservient to that (if they come in at all).

Venezuelans who may end up fighting for Venezuelan freedom to rule themselves as a soveriegn free nation, with the right to fully benefit from THEIR own natural resources, are NOT proxies of anyone. Regardless of who helps them.

When you're a closet imperialist who thinks nothing of stealing other peoples land, resources, dignity & even lives, then everyone opposing you starts to look like a terrorist, an insurgent or a proxy.

The issue isn't them. Its you.

A tell tale is how they tend to completely overlook (to the point of pretending it isnt happening) the role of economic sanctions, blockades & other forms of coercive pressure on the economies of those countries. Instead, putting it all down to local actions by local actors.

There won't be much mention of any of the social improvements & economic uplift which Chavez in particular was able to do, before the external economic pressures became overbearing.

When you can control the narrative on both sides of the equation to this extent, kidnapping the leader of a sovereign (until today) country seems almost normal.

Jeffery Sachs summed it up best a couple of hours ago. The US is not even pretending to be a constitutionally-governed state any more, and this is just 1 sign of that.

The Wehrmacht lost because numbers kind of matter in war. When you look at the natural resources Russia had, the population disparity between Russia and Germany, and the size of territory the Germans attempted to conquer, it really wasn't a close contest at all.

The entire concept of a 5th column is just fear-mongering by most countries who faced defeat due to their incompetence. And the term was used by countries to impose draconian controls and oppression.