Paul Craig Roberts: Washington Has Appointed
A President For Venezuela
Washington routinely
meddles but now has gone far beyond mere meddling. How so, and what was
Maduro’s crime anyway? Here’s Paul to explain…
Editor’s Note: We
sounded the alarm that something was about to pop-off in Venezuela one day
before the US recognized Guaido as President. Here’s a chronological order of
our original coverage over the last couple of days:
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.”
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.
Imminent US Military Invasion Of Venezuela To
Overthrow Maduro And Effect Regime Change?
With 3 recent
coups/assassination attempts on Venezuela/Maduro, and with US Deep State
politicians beating the war drums, is military intervention next?
Something very strange
is going on.
But I don’t yet know
how to connect the dots.
In 2017, famous
Venezuelan actor and pilot Oscar Perez went on some sort of helicopter rampage
and “attacked” various parts of the Venezuelan government, apparently calling
for the Venezuelan people to “rise up” against the government.
The MSM propagandist
coverage on Venezuela then shifted focus to the human suffering and abject
misery seen in daily life in the resource rich utopia turned socialist
dystopian nightmare.
That is, until August
of 2018, when, wouldn’t you know it, there was a drone attack and presumed
“assassination attempt” on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro?
Of
course CNN spins it as if this drama in Venezuela occurs as frequent as the
monthly meetings of the Benevolent Order of Antelopes.
Why wouldn’t CNN spin
it like that?
Fast forward to just
this past weekend, here in late January, 2019, and low-and-behold we have yet
another “uprising” against the Venezuelan government, but this time, it is an
uprising apparently conducted by the actual Venezuelan military.
Let’s set the stage
with US Senator Marco Rubio:
Did anybody notice that?
“We have troops all
over the world, and Venezuela is not very far away.”.
Art of the deal?
Syria for Venezuela?
That little nugget, no
pun intended, kind-of puts any actual US troop rotation (which so far has been
all talk and no action) in a certain light, doesn’t it?
President Trump gets to
withdrawal the troops from Syria = WIN!
The US Deep State
warmongering neocons get to fight another day with this all-of-the-sudden and
out-of-the-blue “imminent” need for the US to do something = WIN!
That’s like a Win-Win.
Said differently, the
US war machine is a beast that must constantly be fed, and the beast’s appetite
is never satisfied, so any reduction in US forces in one area of the globe
necessitates the intervention and installation of US troops in some other area
of the globe.
And why not Venezuela?
Heck, it doesn’t take
all day to get there for the photo-ops, and Venezuela does have some of the
nicest beaches around!
Besides, China has
pivoted to Africa, and China looks to be dominating the resources there,
despite the US military build-up of Djibouti, so unless the US acts fast
against the Venezuelan government, the Chinese, the Russians, the Saudis, or
Heaven forbid the Turks end up swooping-in to Venezuela and gaining control of
those Latin American resources (like soil, timber, gold, oil, workers, etc).
Therefore, true to
American war machine style, if we are going in, we’re not going in with
business investment spending, infrastructure build-outs, and research &
development.
Nope.
We will go in, guns
a-blazin’, and we will first destroy the infrastructure, secondly devastate the
landscape, and then hopefully turn plenty a town into rubble, all the while
testing out our latest and greatest military gadgets, so that we can pay
Misters Kellogg, Brown & Root to move-in and rebuild Venezuela later on.
Then we’ll make sure
Nicolas Maduro, the “Illegitimate President” (Rubio’s words, not mine), is
either removed from power, Qaddafi style, or, put on trial, Saddam style.
Either way, it will be
quite the show, and the US will have saved Venezuela from an evil tyrannical
dictatorship.
But wait, there’s
more!
Because in addition to
freeing the Venezuelan people, The US will be installing and configuring
Western democracy to the formerly enslaved 3rd-world crap-hole.
But don’t take ‘Ol
Half Dollar’s word for it, hear it from Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo himself, speaking about Venezuela just two weeks ago (bold added
for emphasis):
“The Maduro regime is illegitimate and
the United States will continue … to work diligently to restore
a real democracy to that country,” he said. “We are very hopeful that we
can be force for good to allow the region to come together to
deliver that.”
Woot!
Right?
That’s right,
Venezuela!
You’re gonna get some
old-fashioned Western democracy, US style!
Congratulations
Venezuela, you’ve won the lottery!
Or am I missing
something here?
Meh.
I’m not smart enough
to know.
I am, however, smart
enough to know one thing that went missing from all the United States’ regime
change endeavors, and that thing was Saddam’s gold.
And also that of
Qaddafi.
And while we do know where
“Maduro’s gold” is (say it again,
out loud, and hear just how evil that sounds – “Maduro’s gold”), we must also
understand that there is a constant scramble by cartel governments and cartel
central banks to bring physical gold to market, you know, in order to continue
the price suppression schemes and maintain the brainwashed sheeple’s confidence
in our debt-based fiat currency.
Regardless, tin-pot
dictators are literal goldmines.
And formerly tin-pot
dictators?
Don’t worry.
I’m asking that as a
rhetorical question.
And it doesn’t require
an answer.
Like someone requires
gold.
Stack accordingly…
Russia Warns US Intervention In Venezuela
Would Have “Catastrophic Consequences”
“Russia is not the
only country…Syria, Turkey, and China have also declared intentions to stick by
Maduro “
Editor’s Note: We
sounded the alarm that something was about to pop-off in Venezuela one day
before the US recognized Guaido as President. Here’s a chronological order of
our coverage over the last couple of days:
*****
Russia has dismissed
the political crisis engulfing Venezuela as an attempted coup while expressing
concern over the role external states and the potential for foreign military
intervention, calling Juan Guaido’s move to declare himself president
illegal.
Kremlin Spokesman
Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, “We are very concerned by statements that don’t
rule out some kind of external intervention,” as cited by Bloomberg. “We
consider such intervention unacceptable,” Peskov added while
describing the internal unrest spilling into the streets after the catalyst of
Monday’s failed military revolt of 27 officers in an opposition neighborhood of
Caracas an “attempt to usurp power”.
Prior meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo
state residence outside Moscow on December 5, 2018. Image source: AFP
This
follows President Trump’s declaration that the US would only recognize the
unelected head of the opposition-held National Assembly as “the President
of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the Interim President of
Venezuela.” A senior Trump administration official followed by saying “all options are on the table”.
The Russian Foreign
Ministry said further in website statement that Washington’s joining a
growing list of a bout a dozen other countries to recognize Guaido “is
aimed at deepening the split in Venezuelan society, increasing the conflict on
the streets, sharply destabilizing the internal political system and
further escalation of the conflict.” And in words eerily similar to the
brief international exchange of words over prior US action in places like Libya
and Syria the ministry said that external armed intervention would
be “fraught with catastrophic consequences.”
The foreign ministry
further described that the situation “has reached a dangerous point” and called
on the international community to engage in diplomacy and mediation between the
Maduro government and opposition.
And
separately, a senior Russian official on Thursday warned
the Trump administration against what he called the “catastrophic
scenario”of military intervention in the region. “We warn
against this,” Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei
Ryabkov, said in an interview with International Affairs magazine, as cited
in USA Today. “We believe that this would be a catastrophic scenario that
would shake the foundations of the development model we see in the
Latin American region.”
Wednesday clashes with police, image
via Rafael Hernández
In early December of
last year President Nicholas Maduro visited Moscow to meet with President
Vladimir Putin at a time when tensions with both countries and Washington were
soaring. The leaders discussed Russia’s offering to throw cash-strapped
Venezuela a multi-billion dollar life-line despite Caracas in the past being
unable to pay its debts. During that trip, Maduro had called
Russia a “brother country” with which Venezuela had “raised the flag
for the creation of a multipolar and multicentric world.”
This meeting was
followed by Russia briefly deploying two nuclear-capable “Blackjack”
bombers to Venezuela as part of a joint training exercise meant to
underscore the two countries’ growing military relations.
Meanwhile Russia is
not the only country to express fear of external meddling and an “illegal”
coup attempt, but predictably Syria, Turkey, and China have also declared
intentions to stick by Maduro while voicing that the Venezuelan people alone should
decide their fate.
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