I may have been the only one who believed, when the Temporary Government Shutdown ended, that the precipitating cause of Trump's capitulation was the need to have all hands on deck, especially at the State Department, for the unfolding coup that had been triggered in Venezuela.
Much like Bay of Pigs, the Venezuelan government did not just fall over when the US fingered it's long groomed successor as the Interim President. There is no clause in the Venezuelan constitution which permits such a thing. Interim Presidency could only occur in the event of the President's incapacitation, and even then it requires a co-Presidency including the Vice President. And the idea that the determination would be made in Washington in quite a joke 90% of Venezuelans wouldn't be laughing about.
The Military did not gather around the newly "recognized" coupster, much as happened in the 2002 coup attempt against Chavez.
Given the US has endlessly engineered endings for the Bolivarian regime, since it began in 1998, it cannot be trusted with anything. And if the US fingers a US groomed successor--in Venezuela that should be treason.
Of course, the successor immediately wants to reverse the oil nationalization of the Bolivarian regime, and steal the oil industry back to the US.
Only now, it is half owned by the Chinese and Russians, no small thanks to Washington's prior actions.
This could be the end of the world. Or it could be the turning of a new leaf, ending the highly imperialist Monroe Doctrine, which I'd love to see.
Along with this, which virtually every child and adult understands and believes in the USA (it's about the oil, duh) there are other memes, lies, being spread officially and by bots controlled by Imperial agencies. Along the lines of "Well...something must be done!" These are to be summarily dismissed, on several levels.
The first might be, it's a crime against nature if the Venezuelan oil isn't being extracted to the higher degree, presumably, that a US strangehold would bring.
Actually, it's a crime against nature for any oil to be taken from the ground, that was carbon in sequestration better than humanity could devise. I could hardly protest this, given my own country is now the largest oil extractor, or something like that. But I certainly wouldn't protest lack of growth or even decline in Venezuelan oil production. I would celebrate it!
As for the Venezuelans, of course, they would need to find something else to do, a universal task, freed from the resource curse, or now the effective lack of a resource curse under alleged mismanagement of the Bolivarian regime.
How to find what to do now is not really my domain, but my beliefs would suggest Communism, of which the Bolivarian regime has often been accused but never come close to being.
Neoliberalism aka "Freedom and Democracy" can only deliver the rut of 1998, or worse.
The second is that the elections were unfair. No reasons are ever given to back this up, it is merely asserted. Certain opposition parties boycotted the elections, which was their right, but it is not proof of anything. Independent polls show desire to be free of US influence ranging around 90%, which is not far from Meduro's official election result of 70%, tabulated by foolproof Taiwanese machines.
There is far more evidence that the US elections were flawed, and China would be equally justified to pick an Interim President there.
Being forced to have new elections at some tight spot is not for foreign nations to call. The US should not even, in the slightest, be involved with the evolution of governance in Venezuela. That concept, foreign to the Imperium, is basic common sense and international law. WHEN elections are called is a very tricky business, to be left to the people themselves, possibly by constitutional means except in dire circumstances, which is only for the very people to judge, free of foreign influence.
Acceptance of the sovereignty of other nations is basic International Law, which the US routinely violates.
This should end, and with it all phony (perhaps always rigged) claims of concern for the national leadership of other countries and its internal effects.
The whole idea that we as a State* are responsible to external unfairness, governance, or war is mistaken. We may be generous to to individual people materially or with resettlement (acceptance of immigrants and refugees is highly admirable--and often legally required), so long as it is not to control their collective governance.
(*Except through the UN, which represents our limited responsibilities to the rest of the world.)
US actions in this regards toward many regimes in many nations who were coup'd has been abominable, and I can't think of one that was beneficial in any way to ordinary people of either nation.
The notion that we are "concerned" always strikes me as preposterous.
By the way, I don't trust people who claim they are or were from a country. The very fact that they are near me suggests they are highly connected with the Imperium in some way and therefore unrepresentative of any but the 10% elite.
Likewise I don't trust mainstream media accounts, or even what many argue is required, "being there." Being "there" still means in some particular places, once again, not necessarily representative or honestly represented.
What I do trust is that people have strong tendencies for both honesty and corruption everywhere. Nowhere is there a perfect society but the best are those that prize equality and fairness above prosperity and especially growth.
The well being of the least is always the best measure.
And the less connected to The Imperium, probably, the better for both.
Much like Bay of Pigs, the Venezuelan government did not just fall over when the US fingered it's long groomed successor as the Interim President. There is no clause in the Venezuelan constitution which permits such a thing. Interim Presidency could only occur in the event of the President's incapacitation, and even then it requires a co-Presidency including the Vice President. And the idea that the determination would be made in Washington in quite a joke 90% of Venezuelans wouldn't be laughing about.
The Military did not gather around the newly "recognized" coupster, much as happened in the 2002 coup attempt against Chavez.
Given the US has endlessly engineered endings for the Bolivarian regime, since it began in 1998, it cannot be trusted with anything. And if the US fingers a US groomed successor--in Venezuela that should be treason.
Of course, the successor immediately wants to reverse the oil nationalization of the Bolivarian regime, and steal the oil industry back to the US.
Only now, it is half owned by the Chinese and Russians, no small thanks to Washington's prior actions.
This could be the end of the world. Or it could be the turning of a new leaf, ending the highly imperialist Monroe Doctrine, which I'd love to see.
Along with this, which virtually every child and adult understands and believes in the USA (it's about the oil, duh) there are other memes, lies, being spread officially and by bots controlled by Imperial agencies. Along the lines of "Well...something must be done!" These are to be summarily dismissed, on several levels.
The first might be, it's a crime against nature if the Venezuelan oil isn't being extracted to the higher degree, presumably, that a US strangehold would bring.
Actually, it's a crime against nature for any oil to be taken from the ground, that was carbon in sequestration better than humanity could devise. I could hardly protest this, given my own country is now the largest oil extractor, or something like that. But I certainly wouldn't protest lack of growth or even decline in Venezuelan oil production. I would celebrate it!
As for the Venezuelans, of course, they would need to find something else to do, a universal task, freed from the resource curse, or now the effective lack of a resource curse under alleged mismanagement of the Bolivarian regime.
How to find what to do now is not really my domain, but my beliefs would suggest Communism, of which the Bolivarian regime has often been accused but never come close to being.
Neoliberalism aka "Freedom and Democracy" can only deliver the rut of 1998, or worse.
The second is that the elections were unfair. No reasons are ever given to back this up, it is merely asserted. Certain opposition parties boycotted the elections, which was their right, but it is not proof of anything. Independent polls show desire to be free of US influence ranging around 90%, which is not far from Meduro's official election result of 70%, tabulated by foolproof Taiwanese machines.
There is far more evidence that the US elections were flawed, and China would be equally justified to pick an Interim President there.
Being forced to have new elections at some tight spot is not for foreign nations to call. The US should not even, in the slightest, be involved with the evolution of governance in Venezuela. That concept, foreign to the Imperium, is basic common sense and international law. WHEN elections are called is a very tricky business, to be left to the people themselves, possibly by constitutional means except in dire circumstances, which is only for the very people to judge, free of foreign influence.
Acceptance of the sovereignty of other nations is basic International Law, which the US routinely violates.
This should end, and with it all phony (perhaps always rigged) claims of concern for the national leadership of other countries and its internal effects.
The whole idea that we as a State* are responsible to external unfairness, governance, or war is mistaken. We may be generous to to individual people materially or with resettlement (acceptance of immigrants and refugees is highly admirable--and often legally required), so long as it is not to control their collective governance.
(*Except through the UN, which represents our limited responsibilities to the rest of the world.)
US actions in this regards toward many regimes in many nations who were coup'd has been abominable, and I can't think of one that was beneficial in any way to ordinary people of either nation.
The notion that we are "concerned" always strikes me as preposterous.
By the way, I don't trust people who claim they are or were from a country. The very fact that they are near me suggests they are highly connected with the Imperium in some way and therefore unrepresentative of any but the 10% elite.
Likewise I don't trust mainstream media accounts, or even what many argue is required, "being there." Being "there" still means in some particular places, once again, not necessarily representative or honestly represented.
What I do trust is that people have strong tendencies for both honesty and corruption everywhere. Nowhere is there a perfect society but the best are those that prize equality and fairness above prosperity and especially growth.
The well being of the least is always the best measure.
And the less connected to The Imperium, probably, the better for both.
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