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pyrrhus's avatar

The US has pretty much destroyed International law with its activities in Venezuela...but now what? The oil companies can't be protected except by a sizable occupation force, but then the whole lawless business risks becoming another Iraq....

John Day MD's avatar

It looks like the CIA bribed enough generals to have the back door opened for them, so installing a comprador government may proceed pretty quickly, while the stacks of $100 bills keep getting handed out.

pyrrhus's avatar

Obviously, no one believes the drug smuggling accusations...It's transparently about the oil fields...For drug smuggling try the CIA, Mexico, Canada and Columbia.....

Rhys Jaggar's avatar

Dr John

Your nation has opened 2026 proving it has no basis for any leadership other than that of a murdering mob family.

Everyone knows this has nothing to do with narcotics, it is all to do with stealing oil, gas, metals ores etc etc.

From now on, US citizens abroad will not be treated with decorum. They will spat on, they will be told to go home, their diplomats will be called murderers and lawless mobsters, their armed forces overseas will be called mercenaries not worthy of having the rights of war combatants.

The world is going to organise itself without reference to the USA and the US dollar. Oh, there will be a few satrapies, but if Trump thinks he is stealing Canada, Greenland, the whole of Central- and South America, he will not be alive for 12 months. His life is utterly expendable if he sees the world in those terms.

US citizens have to decide if they are low level nazis 'who turned the other cheek' or whether they will rise up against their criminal government and make their 250th anniversary worth celebrating.

It no longer has any semblance of 'the American Idea' any longer. It is just a highly indebted mob family.

John Day MD's avatar

I broadly agree what has been done to this country by our owners. It is similar to what was done to your country by the same class of people, and the world suffers for it.

Yes people want to work outside of the $US system, but this just made that harder.

This move goes to creating an actual empire of the western hemisphere. It is starkly clear now. The purpose of an empire is to extract tribute fromall of its subjects.

I would like the world to organize against this, but how? Such things take time and resources. Who has either these days? Russia and China do. India and Iran do not have imperial ambitions these days.

It looks like 3 major powers and various other countries aligned and unaligned...

As you know, this wasn't my idea, but I think I seeit clearly now.

Yeah, indebted mob family...

John Day MD's avatar

Yes, it is Manuel Noriega part 2, and how many innocents died for a "legal arrest" that time? I recall it being a couple of thousand civilians from the bombing. No body counts this time, yet.

Maduro had/hasenemies, and I'm sure he earned a lot of them, but he is a duly elected head of state of Venezuela, and this is just a power-play to comandeer Venezuelan resources and install another comprador government.

Jjule's avatar

BS.

You’re in a knee jerk group think.

Jjule's avatar

Oh stop it.

Maduro was installed like Biden.

He was not legally elected!

Gawd some people are so ignorant

John Day MD's avatar

Jimmy Carter's team said it was a legal and proper election, better than the ones we have here in the USA.

pyrrhus's avatar

In addition to the drone attack, Martin Armstrong reports that there was an assassination attempt on Putin organized by a billionaire businessman in October....It was foiled, But the businessman apparently escaped....