They're just desperate. No one is really in a position to help them. China will be hurt by the loss of ability to buy Venezuelan oil, but they lack the military power to help Venezuela in any meaningful way, given the proximity of Venezuela to the U.S..

Asking China for help is probably Venezuela's only rational move at this point. They're the only country with naval power even close to the US'.

>>524406435
lol wot, who the fuck wants to help Venezuela know… from joke communism to semi-serious communism. Fuck em, take them for a helicopter ride

>>524407325
It must be nice for you to think that

>>524410253
It's not cope. China is probably going to call a loss on their 60 billion debt trap, they've ensnared Venezuela over. The recent oil ship seizure that was transporting crude to China, was probably deliberately set up by the Venezuelan government, to get more attention from Beijing, or to try and force action from them. Combine the context of this LLM generated letter of official groveling, and you do sort of have a desperate nationstate.