Paul Craig Roberts says that the U.S. pushes Russia and China about but they do nothing about it, nor do they make any attempt to protect their interests in Venezuela - but they know how crazy Washington is.
After listening since 2016 to the American presstitutes complain, without providing a mere scrap of evidence, of Russia meddling in US elections, a person would think that the last thing Washington would do would be to meddle in other countries’ elections.
Unfortunately, that is not the case. Washington routinely meddles but now has gone far beyond mere meddling. Washington has this day (January 23, 2019) declared that the elected president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is no longer the Venezuelan president. Washington, not the Venezulan people, has decided who is Venezuela’s president. Declaring the elected government to be “illegitimate,” President Trump elected by diktat the Venezuelan president: “Today, I am officially recognizing the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the Interim President of Venezuela.”https://www.rt.com/news/449533-trump-recognizes-venezuela-opposition/
Clearly, Gaido is in Washington’s pocket or Washington would not have chosen him.
Maduro, like Chavez before him, has committed the unpardonable crime of representing the Venezuelan people instead of American corporate and financial interests. Washington simply does not tolerate Latin American governments that represent Latin American people. As US Marine General Smedley Buttler said, he and his Marines made Latin America safe for the United Fruit Company and investments by US banks.
So, now Venezuela has two presidents. One elected by the people, and one appointed by Washington. How long before Washington does this to Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Turkey, India?
Washington managed to frame and remove from power the female reformist president of Argentina and to replace her with a right-wing Washington puppet.
Washington managed to frame, remove from power, and imprison the leaders of the reformist party in Brazil and to install a right-wing Washington puppet.
Washington managed to dispose of the reformist government in Ecuador, install a Washington puppet, and use him against Julian Assange.
Washington interferred in the French election by framing the likely socialist candidate, Dominique Strauss-Kahn on a bogus rape charge that fell apart after removing Strauss-Kahn from contention.
The American leftwing blames Washington for the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile, although my views on this are different. Nevertheless, the claim fits the pattern.
The reformist government in Bolivia is also under Washington pressure.
Somehow, the rest of the world does not become outraged by Washington’s massive interference in the political affairs of other countries. Even Russia’s Vladimir Putin accepts Washington’s interferrence in Russian elections and Ukraine’s elections. Washington’s bullying, like Israel’s bullying, is somehow acceptable to countries that are far too powerful to have to accept it.
Russia was in line for an airbase in Venezuela. Under the guise of guarding the air base, Russia could station a regiment of crack troops to guard Maduro while he arrests the obviously treasonous Juan Guaido and his entire political party that serves Washington, not Venezuela. How can Maduro govern when he is surrounded by traitors loyal to Washington?
China also has ties to Venezuela and could send crack troops to protect its investments.
But nothing happens.
When Chavez was elected president, Washington used the old Washington-allied Spanish Venezuelan elite, who still control the Venezuelan media, to overthrow Chavez. But before Washington could kill Chavez, the Venezuelan military and people intervened and forced Chavez’s release and reinstatement as President. Instead of arresting the traitors, Chavez left them be, and now they have poisoned the situation for Chavez’s successor.
As long as Latin American or any reformers fail to understand that Karl Marx was correct that there can be no reforms, no revolution, no improvement for ordinary people as long as the old order is left in place, Washington, not Latin Americans, will control Latin America.
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The Strauss-Kahn situation was a classic textbook case of a set up with a sex scandal. I don't know which banker or other powerful person he pissed off or what he did, but they went after him 18 different ways and they all ended up to be horseshit. The only surprising thing is they weren't able to get anything to stick. He did make himself an easy target with his penchant for orgies though. That was the best part, being French he didn't even try to deny going to orgies like an American politician would do... In France, politicians are practically required to have mistresses.
“Paul Craig Roberts says that the U.S. pushes Russia and China about but they do nothing, or make any attempt to protect their interests in Venezuela, but they know how crazy Washington is.”
It’s frustrating to see Russia and China let themselves be bullied, and I have complained about it, but we are only going by what the corporate media outlets claim, and we know they are liars.
For example, if the West becomes involved in another World War, we will have no idea what’s really going on. As American forces are wiped out, we will be fed tales of triumph and victory. All sides do this in wartime. We are at war right now.
Anyway, average Americans only pay attention to what their government says, not what the government does. Foreign powers are the opposite (e.g. Russia and China). They know that the US and UK governments constantly boast, brag, threaten, and strut about. They don’t move unless the bluff and bluster is accompanied by action.
One other thing: Russia is not concerned with right or wrong. Russia is only concerned with Russia, and therefore would only intervene in Venezuela if doing so were crucial to Russia’s interests.
“Washington managed to frame and remove from power the female reformist president of Argentina and to replace her with a right-wing Washington puppet.” ~ PCR
To be fair, a President in the USA and Argentina can only serve two consecutive terms, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had finished her second term. Her successor, Mauricio Macri, is an ultra-neoliberal elitist who has accepted the largest IMF loans in IMF history. As a result, Argentina has become a nightmare so horrendous that the corporate media outlets stay silent about it.
The Argentine masses want Cristina Fernández to run again for president. Hence the current government has fabricated bogus charges against her, and will imprison her if she runs again, or if she makes any trouble for the neoliberals.
“Washington interfered in the French election by framing the likely socialist candidate, Dominique Strauss-Kahn on a bogus rape charge that fell apart after removing Strauss-Kahn from contention.” ~ PCR
Strauss-Kahn was in a position to do serious damage to neoliberalism. Therefore he had to go. French President Nicolas Sarkozy helped him become managing director of the IMF in 2007. Things were fine until Strauss-Kahn decided to run for the French presidency, succeeding Sarkozy, and said that as president he would expose IMF evil, and serve the French people. Therefore the IMF concocted a plot to remove him in May 2011, while President Sarkozy distracted the French masses by increasing his bombardment of Libya.
“The American leftwing blames Washington for the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile, although my views on this are different. Nevertheless, the claim fits the pattern.” ~ PCR
WHOOPS. PCR adores Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, since they gave him jobs in the US government. Therefore nothing they ever did was less than saintly. Even when PCR admits that something was evil (e.g. the Chile coup) it was saintly. He praises Marx, but also praises the Chile coup because it was “anti-Marxist.” At age 79, PCR has still not matured past this silliness.
PCR won't ever admit he was wrong. He was wrong about supply-side economics too.
Supply side economics was a Reagan thing. That's why PCR loves it. The lie that if we rob from the poor and give to the rich, we benefit the poor.
The new fella is a very capable and competent industrial systems engineer. It will be a great boon for Venezuelans to have someone in leadership that can create a social and economic system that allows people to meet their basic needs and even prosper again. Maduro had inspiring words but he didn't know how to make the system work and motivate people to cooperate.
Yeah, but he will wasn't elected. And Washington crushed Venezuela, like they are trying to do to every other country is does not control.
Venezuela has oil agreements with China.
That is everything you need to know.
Well that says all it about Ryan’s love for democracy. An unelected fella will fix it all because he’s a right wing with a degree in engineering.
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