Some quick thoughts on Venezuela from a comrade:
1. Reuters confirms agreement to divert Venezuela oil to US will not affect China much even short term. Only 4% of imports with ample supplies from Russia and Iran:
2. That immediate agreement is stronger evidence for US not needing an exit plan because not aiming to hold power in Venezuela but only to compel by raid. Strongly suggests regime elements acquiescence made raid easy without US risk.
3. Major military mobilization plus unnecessary killing despite lack of resistance is consistent with the certainly increased salience of American stupidity.
4. But even more consistent with throwback to US posturing during and after defeat in Vietnam could have made it obvious that it was in serious decline as a superpower HALF A CENTURY AGO. eg Xmas bombing of Hanoi to pretend they had not abandoned puppet regime and subsequent major mobilization to triumphantly defeat the non existent armed forces of Grenada (pop ~50,000?) to announce the “Vietnam syndrome” was over.
5. US abandonment of Europe is a much bigger decline. Aggressive posturing is characteristic of weak and declining regimes lacking popular support – like former USSR and Iraq, current Russian Federation, USA, Belarus, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, DPRK.
6. Collapse of Assad regime and reawakening of Iranian revolution are unintended side effects of Zionists NOT just posturing. Hopefully even posturing could eventually help Venezuelans and Cubans to get rid of their zombie regimes.
7. I cannot be confident of anything. The US declaratory policy is now officially aggressive posturing. Which makes it hard to guess how far that differs from actual policy.
8. Normally governments engaged in posturing don’t openly proclaim that is what they are doing. But perhaps it makes some domestic sense given that Trump’s opponents in both major parties went bat-shit crazy with conspiracy theories and denunciations of the majority of Americans for despising them so much that they supported Trump. Watching “the ‘splodey heads splode” whenever Trump asks them to is quite entertaining but indicates political skill and cunning rather than mere stupidity.
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