The American Empire Pivots Toward Venezuela

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-24/american-empire-pivots-toward-venezuela

Many people are coming to quick takes on yesterday’s extraordinary decision by the U.S. government to recognize an unelected opposition leader as interim President of Venezuela based on their view of Maduro and his government. Similar to the emotional responses to those first clips of the Covington students and Nathan Phillips, such superficial opinions feel good and confirm biases, but don’t tell you much about what’s really going on. From my seat, the move by the Trump administration to choose the leader of Venezuela by diktat is just straight up imperial geopolitics. Nothing more, nothing less.

… Once you start getting all these facts, it becomes clear the U.S. isn’t trying to help Venezuelans achieve “freedom and democracy,” but the goal is to push back against the empire’s primary geopolitical rivals who have been busy working on creating a multi-polar world order.

Michael Krieger

@LibertyBlitz

Let me be blunt.

If Maduro was a good client state of the U.S. instead of allied with Russia and China, not only would the U.S. government not be doing anything, it would actively be helping him.

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1:09 PM - Jan 24, 2019

…. Come to your own conclusions about what’s going on and whether or not you approve of it, but you should always have as much background information as possible.