by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog
This past week’s meeting of the U.S.-and-Canada-created anti-Venezuela Lima Group of nations failed to achieve the U.S. regime’s intention of organizing a coalition of its members to participate in a U.S.-led invasion to overthrow Venezuela’s Government and install Trump’s choice, the self-styled ‘interim President’ of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, to rule there. Although 100 nations had been invited, only 60 attended, and the U.S. regime wasn’t able to obtain even one ally for an invasion. John Bolton (U.S. National Security Advisor) and Wilbur Ross (U.S. Secretary of ‘Commerce’ — mainly U.S. oil companies) represented U.S. President Trump at the meeting, which started on August 5th. The meeting ended with no official announcement. It was a humiliating defeat for the U.S. regime.
Below is a report about this meeting, by Agence France-Presse, a typical U.S.-allied ‘news’-medium. The italicized additions in brackets in and near the article’s end are essential historical context; it’s taken from Wikipedia’s article “International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis”, and thus also isn’t from me. This way, the reader will be able to see what the ‘news’-report here leaves out, which is essential background in order for readers to know the reality that stands behind this particular ‘news’ report. The minor typos in the original report are also left unchanged; the entire article is unchanged, except that I boldface the passages toward the end, which passages are subsequently contextualized immediately below them. Afterward, I shall add my own comments, in order to provide a fuller context:
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US warns off Venezuela’s supporters as Lima meeting opens
Date created: Tuesday 6 August 2019, 06/08/2019 – 20:07
AFP, Lima (AFP): Washington warned third parties on Tuesday to avoid doing business with the Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro, as delegates from some 60 countries met in Lima to discuss ways of ending the crisis in South American nation.
The warning came one day after President Donald Trump ordered a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the United States and barred transactions with its authorities.
“We are sending a signal to third parties that want to do business with the Maduro regime: proceed with extreme caution,” said Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton, speaking in Lima.
“There is no need to risk your business interests with the United States for the purposes of profiting from a corrupt and dying regime.”
The Trump administration is determined to force Maduro from power and support opposition leader Juan Guaido’s plans to form a transitional government and set up new elections.
The sanctions drew an angry response from Caracas, which denounced the US move as “another serious aggression by the Trump administration through arbitrary economic terrorism against the Venezuelan people.”
Crisis-wracked Venezuela has been mired in a political impasse since January when Guaido, speaker of the Natinal Assembly, proclaimed himself acting president, quickly receiving the support of more than 50 countries.
Tuesday’s meeting was called by the Lima Group, which includes a dozen Latin American countries and Canada, most of which support Guaido.
The Lima meeting comes as representatives of Maduro and Guaido are involved in “continuous” negotiations mediated by Norway.
The first round of talks were in Oslo in May, and three further rounds have taken place in Barbados.
Caracas claims the US sanctions show that Washington and its allies are “committed to the failure of the political dialogue” because “they fear the results and benefits.”
Bolton, who is in the US delegation alongside Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, said Maduro was “not serious” about talks.
He said Trump’s move “authorizes the US government to identify, target and impose sanctions on any persons who continue to provide support” Maduro’s “illegitimate regime.”
He said it would “deny Maduro access to the global financial system and to further isolate him internationally.”
Venezuela’s opposition considers Maduro a usurper over his re-election last year in a poll widely viewed as rigged.
They want him to stand down so new elections can be held — but Maduro, with support from the country’s powerful military, refuses to go.
Maduro says the talks must lead to “democratic coexistence” and an end to what he describes as an attempted US-orchestrated “coup.”
But on Tuesday the White House was emphatic: the “dictatorship must end for Venezuela to have a stable, democratic, and prosperous future.”
The United States would “use every appropriate tool to end Maduro’s hold on Venezuela,” White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.
Oil-rich but cash-poor Venezuela has been in a deep recession for five years.
[“President Barack Obama signed the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014, a U.S. Act imposing sanctions on Venezuelan individuals held responsible by the United States for human rights violations during the 2014 Venezuelan protests, in December of that year.[13][14] It “requires the President to impose sanctions” on those “responsible for significant acts of violence or serious human rights abuses associated with February 2014 protests or, more broadly, against anyone who has directed or ordered the arrest or prosecution of a person primarily because of the person’s legitimate exercise of freedom of expression or assembly”.[8]”]
Food and medicine shortages are routine, and public services are progressively failing.
[“As the humanitarian crisis deepened and expanded, the Trump administration levied more serious economic sanctions against Venezuela on 28 January [2019], and “Maduro accused the US of plunging Venezuelan citizens further into economic crisis.”[3] Rafael Uzcátegui, director of PROVEA, added that “sanctions against PDVSA are likely to yield stronger and more direct economic consequences, and that “[w]e should remember that 70 to 80 percent of Venezuela’s food is imported, and there’s barely any medicine production in the country.”[3]”]
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MY COMMENTS: The U.S. regime’s sanctions against Venezuelans were aimed at producing such distress amongst the population so as to cause them not to vote for Maduro. It didn’t work. The sanctions had the intended effect of distressing Venezuelans, but this deprivation drove so many of the most anti-Maduro Venezuelans to leave the country so that the sanctions failed to force the expected “regime change.” It drove too many of his enemies out. The U.S. regime is therefore trying even-stronger measures to grab the country. Trump is dictating to Venezuela that “the dictatorship must end.” He has even chosen the person, Guaido, who is to replace the current nationally elected President, whom the U.S. regime has long been trying to oust. Guaido has never even been a candidate in any national Venezuelan election, but he was trained in the U.S., and has always cooperated with the U.S. Government’s repeated efforts to take control over Venezuela. Venezuela has never invaded nor even threatened the United States. This coup-attempt is purely an effort for imperialistic conquest of Venezuela, but it is cloaked in ‘democratic’ and ‘humanitarian’ lies, for fools, like America’s invasions and coups typically are. Only idiots can’t see what the U.S. pattern is here, especially after the lies that had suckered Americans in 2003 to support “regime-change in Iraq.” Trump is continuing Barack Obama’s policy, which continued that of George W. Bush. Whatever changes in personnel occur within the U.S. regime, the regime itself remains basically the same, though its theatrics change, and that’s enough change to satisfy most Americans that we live in a democracy. Virtually all of the U.S. Congress supports these efforts to conquer Venezuela, and this fascism includes all of the Democratic Party’s Presidential candidates. Therefore, none of the candidates are being challenged about their votes supporting this (or any other) attempted conquest by the U.S. regime. The neoconservative policy is bipartisan in America, though the personnel do change, from the representatives of one group of billionaires, to the representatives of another group of billionaires. And the vast majority of Americans think that it’s good, or at least okay — even after all of the lies have been exposed, they still approve. Of course, most Italians, Japanese, and Germans, thought favorably about their Government’s imperialistic conquests, during WW II; but Americans became opposed to that when we were hit by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war against us. This time around, we are the Japanese, and the Germans, and the Italians. Things weren’t supposed to turn out this way, but it has happened. The U.S. is today the world’s leading fascist nation. And very few Americans recognize that it’s the way that things did turn out. Very few Americans know that we live in a fascist nation — today’s leading fascist nation.
AFTER THAT NEWS-REPORT:
The next day, August 7th, Venezuela’s Telesur headlined “EU Opposes Recent US Total Blockade Against Venezuela” and reported that Trump had failed to get the EU — his biggest hope for destroying Venezuela short of militarily invading it — to accept even that proposal. The EU said “We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures.” They further said “A negotiated outcome remains the only sustainable way to overcome this multidimensional crisis.” The EU couldn’t muster enough fascists to go along with anything that the U.S. regime proposed. At this point, Trump isn’t far from the moment when he will need either to abandon his effort to grab Venezuela in this round, or else spring a blitz invasion without allies. Even if he calls off the effort, that would only be temporary. Perhaps if and when he is re-elected, he will feel freer just to send in thousands of troops, tanks, and missiles, to get the job done. However, if Russia stands firm, then such an invasion could spark WW III. He would have to decide whether grabbing the world’s largest oil reserves is worth that risk. Meanwhile, he will almost certainly continue to try to make life as difficult as possible for the Venezuelan people, all the while blaming Maduro for their misery. This has been the basic American plan, since well before Trump occupied the White House. At this stage, an American President is just a figurehead for one or another faction of America’s 607 billionaires, and it seems that whereas some of them demand conquest of Venezuela, none of the others opposes such a conquest. The only issue, therefore, for the American regime, is how and when to do that.
On August 8th, Venezuela, Iran, China, and Russia, held “war games” at Kaliningrad, Russia, on the Baltic coast, which military exercises had been organized by Russia, perhaps in order to indicate to Washington that a U.S. invasion against any of these four would be militarily responded to by all of the four. This symbolic act warns the fascist, and fascist-accepting, regimes: Your imperialist alliance has 60 nations, but is fractious; ours, on the other hand — all resolute supporters of national sovereignty, and therefore opponents of imperialism — has 4 nations, but we are united. Consequently, though “US warns off Venezuela’s supporters as Lima meeting opens,” Venezuela’s three allies here answered that verbal threat immediately after the Lima Group meeting, by a joint action, which symbolized that they are ignoring it.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
It seems to me that grabbing oil reserves at this point is really not in anyones best interest, with fuel prices at the barrel being their lowest in many years, grabbing more oil would only stress oil companys prices at the pump. Sure the grabber would be able to subsidize their costs, but internationally it would cause a break up of revenues which would only increase trade tensions as the world is slowly sliding into a global recession. $30 a barrel oil was the recession price and it now struggles with traders barely able to hold the 50 level with all their tools of finance at hand.
The most cogent reason not to be bothered by oil is that it, like all hydrocarbons, must be left safely in the ground, because extracting and combusting them will hasten anthropogenic climate destabilisation. But, as it is, almost certainly, already too late to avert Near Term Human Extinction, perhaps we should just let ‘er rip, and get it over with more quickly.
Complete human extinction is a lot further off than you may think.
What-thirty years rather than twenty? Of course, as Lovelock predicted, a few unlucky bands might survive, wandering about the high north, or perhaps across Antarctica, but 99% will be gone. The science is quite unambiguous.
Science has been quite unambiguous before, like in the 60’s and early 70’s when the predicted that growth in world populatiln would lead to mass starvation on an apocalyptic scale, accellerated by the global cooldown they were concerned about. Didn’t happen. But it was unambiguous and there was a broad concencus.
If mankind succed in killing itself, it is because we allow situations like the one in Venezuela or Iran, proxy conflicts in the great chessgame, to escalate out of hand. And then someone (probably in Washington) extends the “preemptive strike” doctrine and order a nucelar strike on Russia, thinking thay their “rocket shield” actually will work. Then we will risk extincton.
I don’t think anyone believes in man made global warming. Not even the elites.
We also know now that the IPCC were strictly forbidden to examine the role of the Sun in Earth’s climate and instead told they had to blame industrial civilisation (man) instead. They need an excuse to impose global totalitarianism.
Short of nuclear war, we are not going extinct. We do have problems of pollution from plastics etc but the Zionist Club of Rome hoax of manmade global warming has been well and truly debunked. I urge you to do some research. There is plenty of it.
Yeah, the only people who believe in anthropogenic cliamate destabilisation are ALL the Academies of Science and scientific societies on Earth, 99% of actively researching climate scientists, majorities of populations in just about every country on Earth, and the vast majority of global governments. The Club of Rome (how are they ‘Zionists’?) accurately predicted the current pollution crisis (the resource depletion crisis, too, on an EROEI basis)to occur in forty years, forty years ago. And I’ll tell you who else ‘believes’ in anthropogenic climate destabilisation-the world’s cryosphere of montane glaciers, high latitude and high altitude ice-caps and glaciers and permafrost, ALL furiously melting in record temperatures. The ‘conspiracy’ is bigger than you think.
Stop drinking the cool aid.
The Media is not allowed to mention opposition to the global warming narrative.
Scientific journals won’t print opposing views.
Researchers who dare question the Approved Narrative get de-funded.
This is not Science, it is Global Programming.
The Greenhouse Effect is accepted science.Incoming solar radiation is either reflected by the earths surface (albedo) or is absorbed by the land and ocean surfaces. The earth acts like a black body with respect to abosorbed energy, and radiates this stored energy back into space in the infrared spectrum. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere absorbs some of this energy and then radiates it in all directions, some back to earth. The more CO2, the more heat is radiated towards the surface.
The earth is as warm as it is mostly because of the CO2 concentration, and since the beginning of the industrial age, we have increased CO2 from 290 PPM to over 410 PPM.
All of the finger pointing and misdirection and attempts to obscure the reality of AGW cannot escape the fact that more CO2 means a higher average temperature when equilibrium is reached. The best estimate of the equilibrium temperature increase for CO2 doubling from 290 to 580, achievable this century, is 4C to 5C.
All of the discussion among respected climate scientists is about how fast, will it be 4C rather than 5C, how much CO2 is stored in the oceans before they become too acidic for the current fauna …. None of the discussion questions the Greenhouse Effect. It’s that simple.
Show me one non computer generated scientific experiment proving that CO2 causes Global Warming.It doesn’t exist.
Show me one non computer generated scientific experiment proving that CO2 causes Global Warming.It doesn’t exist.
Go to the Wikipedia article on Svante Arrhenius and look for the formula
deltaF = alpha * ln (C/C0)
I hereby refute you.
The ‘scientific experiment’ is in progress. It is the continued emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the consequent rise in greenhouse gas levels, followed by the rise in global average temperatures that we have already seen, and the phenomena of warming seas, melting glaciers, sea ice and ice-caps, and the spread of megafires, record deluges and floods, insect pests and diseases etc. The evidence is IRREFUTABLE to all but zealots, driven by obscure psychological motives.
Mount Pinatubo eruption is an example of a real-world “experiment” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pinatubo). The release of particulate matter and sulfate increase the Earth albedo, resulting in a 0.5 C temperature drop. Climate models were able to reproduce this temperature change quite accurately (https://pubs.usgs.gov/pinatubo/self/).
And five degrees Celsius increase, which on current indications will be reached by 2050 (decades earlier if there is a gigatonne emission of methane from frozen submarine clathrates)means human extinction, more or less. More if the collapse is accompanied by world war with thermo-nuclear and biological weapons. The denialists often seem to being welcoming of such a development.
You said: “since the beginning of the industrial age, we have increased CO2 from 290 PPM to over 410 PPM.”
read it and weep” –
“CO2 levels have been in thousands ppm and Earth’s temperature has been much warmer than it is now. The idea that human CO2 emissions are responsible for shifts and changes in the climate is not scientifically valid, yet policy initiatives that do nothing for our environment are being produced and put forward, putting large sums of money in the pockets of some very powerful people.
“Our crop plants evolved about 400 million years ago, when CO2 in the atmosphere was about 5000 parts per million! Our evergreen trees and shrubs evolved about 360 million years ago, with CO2 levels at about 4,000 ppm. When our deciduous trees evolved about 160 million years ago, the CO2 level was about 2,200 ppm – still five times the current level.” – Dennis T. Avery, agricultural and environmental economist, senior fellow for the Center for Global Food Issues in Virginia, and formerly a senior analyst for the U.S. Department of State (source)”
Give me a grant – tell me where you want to go – and I’ll provide you the selective facts and not all the facts – and the ‘subjective’ interpretation of the selective facts to reach the desired conclusion – and then spread the payoffs to the other parties in the ‘echo chamber’ – to reach the inevitable phrase……settled science’
What you don’t understand is that the nature will survive, no problem with that. Only the humans will not. And those not killed by the effects induced by climate change (like food shortages, higher temperatures, hurricanes, and flooding), will be killing each when fighting for the remaining limited resources. What do you think the reaction of neighbors of Bangladesh would be when that country becomes flooded and the mass exodus of its 165 M population begins?
The fakestream media here in Austfailia still either gives the anti-rational denialist industry equal time with the science, or, in the case of the Murdoch cancer, gives denialism the vast majority of its coverage and opinion. The idea that denialism is not given unmerited prominence is ludicrous. And seeing as it has the scientific credibility of Creation Science or Flat Earth Theories (which is the reason why scientific journals won’t publish its garbage), it is an intellectual obscenity, and given that it is helping to cause human extinction, it is a moral crime without parallel in history.
“Yeah, the only people who believe in anthropogenic cliamate destabilisation are ALL the Academies of Science and scientific societies on Earth, 99% of actively researching climate scientists, majorities of populations in just about every country on Earth, and the vast majority of global governments.”
Yawn. Who are all, without exception, depending on keeping their job and on receiving funding by the very same people who have huge financial and geopolitical interests in keeping the anthropogenic climate destabilisation story going.
Whereas all truly independent scientists and weather specialists with big enough balls dare say and have shown solid proof that the anthropogenic part of the story is a hoax, unless we talk about the ‘on purpose’ part of the question, namely geo-engineering, perpetrated by and/or for the same people behind the scenes who have forementioned huge interests.
P.S. Question for whatever moderator who deleted my totally decent (and even friendly) reaction concerning the ‘ducon’ incident: Can’t you guys (or the Saker) deal with any (oh so tiny) critical notes? No problem, tell me to stay away and I will, but so will my financial support for The Saker.
Cheers!
My reading/undetstanding is the US grab for Venezuelan oil is to control/prevent it being brought to market.
Under Maduro’s watch. Under Guardo’s watch it is an economy stabilizer.
Its depressing Latin American socialist countries seem so completely incapable of properly organising themselves and meeting the Empire´s traps and tricks with more savvy and sophisticated means and measures than inflated words and propaganda. Not a single positive case on this continent, they all just end up as impotent cry babies with nothing to counter the anglozio beleagering.
I wonder why China and Russia havent set up some kind of expert army on economic reform offering their advice to those struggling client countries, as both managed to transfrom themselves from communist basket cases to historic success stories, basically rising from the graveyard to become the new world powers. Should be part of any substantial investment in these countries, a real win-win situation.
Til then they remain easy prey for even the current ridiculous crew steering the Empire´s warcraft.
Absolument d’accord avec Metternik (?). Quand le Vénézuela de Chavez gardait son argent dans des banks américaines !Quand le Brésil de Roussef preferait des Grippen Suedois (Otan) aux Sukhoi et Migs russes… Désespérant! !!
Google Translate,MOD-Absolutely agree with Metternik (?). When Venezuela’s Chavez kept his money in American banks, when Roussef’s Brazil preferred Swedish Grippen (Nato) to Sukhoi and Russian Migs … Despairing! !!
daccord! beggars belief how divorced words and actions of these countries are! how can they even have funds in US banks anymore, waiting for it to be stolen by the Anglozios?? absolutely right
Metternich ignores the reason why Venezuela loses money on each barrel of oil that it sells. See it explained here:
http://global-politics.eu/why-venezuelas-people-are-suffering/
It has nothing to do with Maduro.
Canada is tar sands. Its like liquid asphalt where steam is injected to separate crude. Venezuela on the other hand is just heavy crude. It’s hard to refine except for specialist refineries and it’s cut with sweet light crude (texas shale) to make it an easier to refine crude.
or may be the texans have figured a way to cheaply extract and refine. now whats left is ownership.
Mr Zuesse, that being the case, the Venezuela has to accept even more responsibility for not putting money aside during times of plus100 oil prices, expanding the economic spectrum and investing in now fully derelict infrastructure, instead of squandering all the windfall profits on expensive consumer imports and client giveaways. this makes my point of these socialist “alternatives” not being able to think longterm and strategically even more poignant! they are giving socialism a bad name and letting the Anglozios get away with their crimas as “the lesser evil”!
That is because, Metternich, being capitalist states all real power is in the hands of the rich owners of society. They own all the propaganda machines, they own the banks and the means of production. They are closely allied with the churches and the military, and, of course, Uncle Satan in Thanatopolis DC. There will be NO escape for Latin America until Thanatopolis DC falls. ‘Democracy’ is a dirty farce and a literal dead-end.
Beat them at their own game, instead of lamenting the unlevel playing field! Any country can have their own international media outlet today. But first and foremost, provide an example of diligence, longterm planning, true socialism for the people etc, rather than the silly semi comedic and semi criminal populism and mismanagment we have seen so far. Removed. Mod.
You mean like Cuba, under US blockade for sixty years, and full terrorist war, including bio-terrorism (swine flu) as well. Aided and abetted by the EU scum. China escaped, but just look at the fury of racist Western hatred and subversion, economic warfare, terrorism, sanction and military aggression being directed at China today. The international parasite class is as determined as ever to keep its boot on the neck of humanity, come what may.
Cuba is an excellent example of those shortcomings. if in 60 years u r not able to reorganise ur country of such blessed climate and nature, to become independent from the great satan and self reliant economically, but always just waiting for more handouts from ur pimp du jour, u r a certified loser and have noone but urself to blame. those pathetic revolutions of vain posers and actors have never achieved anything but standstill and petrification.
China is an excellent example of how to do it on the other hand. no one there is crying about sanctions or tariffs, they just make their solid moves without wasting much time on noise and words. they are winning the economic war hands down and will make USA and Trump look like the sore losers and braggers they are.
Parasites are a reality in nature as in human society. if u r sick, weak and quasi dead, u will get devoured by them, if u r alive healthy and know to defend urself, they stand no chance. but to complain about their existence is just futile
Cuba, shortcomings, sick and devoured by parasites?
Cuba doesn’t do too badly in the life expectancy rankings. See, for example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
where a number of different estimates are given. In the main table, Cuba (79.1 years) ranks just under the US (79.3). In another table there, List by the United Nations, for 2010–2015 Cuba even outranks the US. Not bad when you take into account what they’ve been subjected to over the past few decades.
And the Cubans don’t seem to spend much time shooting each other, unlike in the ‘Home of the Free’.
right, and that should make u wonder even more why most of them feel like living on a huge prison island and to this day want to get out of it at any cost. i recommend u actually visit these places and speak to the people on the streets, but careful, in Cuba that might land ur counterpart in prison as happened to me there and took an extended conversation with the station chief to undo. ur ideology is not backed up by reality, not that this would bother u much obviously… in ur fixation on the Empire u r blending out the misery, suppression and grim reality in these countries. i merely suggested to take a break from that black white – guess thats asking too much.
“The international parasite class is as determined as ever to keep its boot on the neck of humanity, come what may.”
You are, perhaps unwittingly, a front line Warrior in their cause Mumblebrain, with your unceasing efforts to convince humans that they shouldn’t live here anymore. at least not the Ordinary folks, there will always be a place, and a steak, for the Elites because that is how God Planned it, at least that is how they hope to force his hand.
We still have the freedom to believe what we want, this is what ‘I’ wish to believe about the ‘Human caused Climate change’ question!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFal8OLbK_4
A rather more detailed video explaining the reasons behind the changes in solar radiation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztninkgZ0ws
It comes to the same conclusion though – there’s going to be less input from the sun from now on.
However, it also makes the point that the current measured increase in carbon dioxide is unprecedented – there is nothing like it in the geological record. So the anthropogenic effect may counteract the cooling effect, or it may not – since such a sharp increase hasn’t happened before, our models have nothing to go on.
If we look around, there are plenty of problematic regions/countries, unresolved issues, there are stand-offs that refuse to die, but NONE of those are near to the ‘Venezuelan problem’ so to speak. While we are hailing 21st century progress in all areas that the human civilization could cumulatively achieve, we are speechless to witness how USA leadership has created a ‘president’ of another independent sovereign country (i.e. Venezuela which is being run by an elected President and complete administration) out of thin air, and then, USA leadership is busy instigating other countries to declare military and economic war against Venezuela to install their stooge as President of Venezuela.
Not even in the heyday of western imperial (modern) history, such mockery of socio-political concepts had been carried out by imperialist powers like Holland, France, England, Spain, and Portugal! The world is at crossroads. If human civilization means extolling of collective virtues over vices, if civilization means promoting empathy over apathy, if civilization means worshipping beauty over ugliness then, the entire humanity is at crossroads – either we move towards civilization or we go deeper into chaos!
This is a sincere call from a distressed human being who is pained to see such glaring violation of humanity in Venezuela. What is happening in Venezuela is above superpower rivalry or trade war or geopolitical tussle – here in Venezuela we can see the repeat of 16th century empire building (by Europeans, who wiped out the original inhabitants and acquired three-fourth landmass of North America for creating new colony which, later transformed into ‘State’). Venezuela being world’s largest oil reserve, USA leadership (where politician-media-bureaucracy-businessmen all are part of same oligarchy with roles changing through swing door) has been eyeing to directly control it since past 3 decades. And now, USA wants to occupy Venezuela and turn it into a permanent colony.
At this critical time, countries like Russia, China, Iran and others who has been carrying the torch of human civilization for thousands of years, will extend their sincere help and support to the Venezuelans who are under attack from traitors within their motherland as well as neo-imperialists from outside. This is the time when the Venezuelan Military forces should create a seamless team along with FARC forces who have maintained their dream of a exploitation-free society. If there is any time in 21st century when morality is under complete cloud, that is now! Everyone who are in a position to help Venezuelans this is the moment to do so.
Straight-Bat
“Everyone who are in a position to help Venezuelans this is the moment to do so.”
Strongly agree.
vot tak,
Yes, others can help Venezuela because that country has a patriotic military force, a patriotic political party all of whom are trying to do their best. Why not powerful countries send relief material, food & medicine, military hardware, training etc. to make Venezuelans stand on their feet ?
Well you can’t rob them from their natural resources as easily when they are on their fee. See Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan.
Thanatopia is simply doing what it has done for 200 years in Latin America, but without the usual slimy facade of ‘morality’, and that only because Trump et al have the table-manners of wolverines and the political establishment in Thanatopia hate his guts. They love overthrowing Latin American Governments, but with more humbug and panache, please.
Mulga,
I can’t disagree with your point that ‘Thanatopia’ is continuing with it’s old tricks, but my point is, on Venezuela USA Deep State has gone insane and dropped all pretensions ! And, unlike past 200 years of control over all Latin American countries through the local military & local industrialists, this attempt in Venezuela is indeed a direct occupation. With increased uncertainty of Persian Gulf passage of Oil shipment (Iran vs Israel) USA Deep State simply wishes to acquire Venezuela for unhindered flow of Oil in near future !
Why doesn’t the Venezuela Gov. not say they will call early elections if the USA will fund them and as a condition all 3rd parties should recognise the result and regardless of who wins, all sanctions should be withdrawn and stolen resources returned to the people
Because if Maduro wins, the USA will declare that he cheated, if Guano Gusano wins then Venezuela will return to the Hell of Rightwing class and race hatred, and because you can never trust Thanatopia to keep its ‘word’, ever.
lombadas,
they already did.. that was the last election in 2018. There were some boycotts and people said it was rigged but there was no evidence of any massive fraud. Maduro won that election and he is now in charge for the next 6 years.
“on Venezuela USA Deep State has gone insane and dropped all pretensions !”
I think the trump regime aggression, in Venezuela and elsewhere, reflects their israeli likud master’s own desperation about their failings. Backs against the wall, they are going all out now. The pindos, like all the rest of the zionazi colonials, are fully expendable in this now, to be used to the up most, regardless of cost and the diminishing returns. Expect anything from zionazia now.
Perhaps we should call it the ‘American Problem’.
I never thought I would agree with Dolton-Bolton about anything whatsoever, but here he is spot on:
”There is no need to risk your business interests with the United States for the purposes of profiting from a corrupt and dying regime”
Nice Freudian slip: ”Business interests” become a way to make profits from a ”corrupt and dying regime” whenever they involve the United States.
Good that Trump drove the reactionaries into exile, thus leaving Maduro to work with the honest, patriotic, sturdy Venezuelan majority. Guaidó’s prospects now look even ”worse” — the quotation marks indicating that, most likely, this utter nobody isn’t so disconnected from reality to believe he actually would survive in his role as full-time Quisling with a label ”Best before yesterday” on full display.
”Venezuela’s opposition considers Maduro a usurper over his re-election last year in a poll widely viewed as rigged.”
In stark contrast to Guaidó; point taken.
Maduro, like Putin, is a usurper since his mass base is illegitimate — it is made up of people who shouldn’t have been given the franchise to begin with. But even worse is that the West’s Zionazis were not given the franchise. Hence Maduro the Dictator.
Yeah-Chavez was an ‘antisemite’, because he treated Palestinians as human beings, and refused to grovel before the ‘Gods Upon the Earth’.
All you need to know is that Venezuela (and Iran) nationalized their petroleum industry, cutting out the global Petrodollar corporations from their profits from Venezuela’s national resources.
Syria is similar, Israel needs Syria to have a leader who will bend over, grab their ankles, and let Israel exploit Syrian national assets in Israeli illegally occupied Syria.
No humanitarian concerns at all.
Sanctions are weapons that are used on civilian populations. Where’s the UN? Off telling everyone to eat less meat, meanwhile ignoring global geo engineering via weaponized weather.
I disagree all dem candidates are part or support this policy or doctrine towards Venezuela, re: Gabbard and Sanders Yes, he is hc socialist and that would ignite the country but differently but worse than now, and Jewish, as am I from one side of the family but especially because of that its so significant that he says the things he says about Israel etc. There hasnt been a a proper realist and humanist Jewish leader since what…Rabin?!? If it came to it, all considered, I would wish for Gabbard, but she has few friends but many enemies. Trump will most probably continue 2020, but I think she may have a chance in future, best for her to become someones vp candidate, as im sure she would pull a lot of votes for multiple reasons.
It may be prudent to examine the work of Joe Bastardi at weather bell. It’s ” pay for business ” but will get you to Mr. Bastardi. The Patriot Post Newspaper also has his writings.
“The international parasite class is as determined as ever to keep its boot on the neck of humanity, come what may.”
You are, perhaps unwittingly, a front line Warrior in their cause Mumblebrain, with your unceasing efforts to convince humans that they shouldn’t live here anymore. at least not the Ordinary folks, there will always be a place, and a steak, for the Elites because that is how God Planned it, at least that is how they hope to force his hand.
We still have the freedom to believe what we want, this is what ‘I’ wish to believe about the ‘Human caused Climate change’ question!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFal8OLbK_4
I don’t think the US has a problem with Maduro especially since he has divided the country, allowed us to implement sanctions, and in general made Venezuela less powerful. If Maduro was building up the military, trading oil in Yuan or partnering with Russia and China in any significant way US troops would be posted up in Caracas; like yesterday.