Illegal Fetish

Old habits die hard, and it looks like the age-old US fetish of regime change is just one habit that the US just cannot seem to kick.
 
At this point, it’s more an addiction than habit.

The latest victim of this US addiction is Venezuela.

After years of resisting US imperial diktat, the US regime has gone so far as to recognize their own personally-trained monkey, Juan Guiado, as the president of Venezuela.

This obscure politician was virtually unknown until the US regime proclaimed him as their ‘recognized’ president of Venezuela; no elections necessary, of course. Just like Ukraine!

The US has accused Nicolas Maduro of usurping power, rigging elections, obstructing democracy, governing like a tyrant, and impoverishing the country.

But of course, as with other leaders that the US overthrew or tried to overthrow, it has nothing to do with democracy or freedom.

The US does not like Maduro because he insists on Venezuelan sovereignty, and wants to put Venezuela first. Surely Mr. Trump should understand this simple concept. After all, wasn’t he for ‘America first’ during the last presidential election?

Maduro refused to hand over Venezuela’s natural wealth to US corporations, especially its oil. He refuses to sell out and be corrupted by US bribes like the pathetic, feckless leaders of certain countries bordering Venezuela.

The US has decided, along with the EU, to interfere in Venezuelan affairs and stage a coup. It has tried to use pro-western elites in Venezuela to deliberately undermine the economic stability of the country by refusing credit, enacting sanctions, buying off politicians, and directly appealing to the Venezuelan military to betray their elected president and overthrow him. The US hand-picked an unknown and unpopular Obama look-alike puppet and told him to declare himself president.

All these moves are blatantly illegal and 100% wrong. It is a despicable way to act, and nothing good will become of it. All countries who go along with this internationally illegal US side-show have embarrassed themselves, and are on the wrong side.

The US and EU claim that they want to ‘restore democracy’ to Venezuela. But how does this square with overthrowing an elected leader and replacing him with a self-appointed pro-US stooge?

What is democratic about this?

If the Venezuelan opposition wants to govern, then why did it boycott the last elections? Why did it at the last moment reject a mediated e agreement in 2017 that would have ended the political problems in Venezuela?

The US, their vassals, and hand-picked clowns in Venezuela have not even one microscopic speck of concern for real democracy, human rights, or free elections. Any words or allusions to these ideals by the US regime and their cohorts are just fake window dressing.

What the US wants is to put a compliant clique of pro-US puppets in power in Caracas, have them chase out China and Russia, and other countries which investments in Venezuela that the US doesn't like - especially in the oil sector - and replace them with US corporations, which will bilk the country while giving nothing in return.

The corrupt, wealthy pro-western Venezuelan clique will gorge themselves on bribes and financial spoils, while the rest of Venezuela goes to hell. This is how it was before Chavez.

And it is a myth that the socialist system in Venezuela has not worked and has failed. For over a decade, Hugo Chavez governed Venezuela and the country saw dramatic improvements in quality of life. Even western financial institutions had to admit this.

So, no. Socialism and the Bolivarian revolution have not failed. Venezuela has been put under siege by the US for not conforming to what the western corporate cartels want. That is all.

Maduro nationalized oil production. He turned away from the dollar and by-passed it, to the ire of the western financial thugs.

Maduro has gotten close to Russia and China, and welcomed their investments and other assistance.

These are Maduro’s ‘sins’ as seen by the US regime.

The US does not want free elections in Venezuela because then they won’t get what they want. They want to get rid of Maduro, appoint a pro-US puppet, lock up and illegalize any party or individual that represents any opposition to US interests, and rig the country’s political and electoral system so that no one who is critical of the US gets elected ever again.

This was done in Brazil, Argentina, and Ukraine.

In Brazil, an extra-legal process resulted in the impeachment of Dilma Roussef by seriously corrupt pro-US elements in the country’s parliament and judiciary. This was done with the direction of the US. 


Even when she was cleared of wrong-doing, she was still impeached. How is this not a power-grab? 

And her mentor and former President of Brazil, Lual Da Silva, was locked up on spurious corruption charges. Any attempts to free him and allow him to run for office have been denied. He is, for all practical purposes, a political prisoner.

In Argentina, pro-US puppet Macri was elected president when everyone was sure he would lose and polled almost 10% lower than his opponent. Some type of election fraud took place there.

No matter how much the US regime and their cohorts squirm and whine, Maduro was elected president by a popular mandate. The Constitutional Assembly was created according to the Venezuelan constitution, and is therefore legal.

US, EU and anyone else has no right to interfere in Venezuelan affairs, and by doing so, they are violating the UN charter.

The US and EU are disgracing themselves. The arrogant and petulant behavior toward Maduro exposes the west’s chronic lack of democracy.

Why does no one dare to un-recognize man-boy Macron? After all, after months of yellow vest protests he has done nothing to address the French peoples’ concerns.

But of course Macron follows the EU bureaucrats and private banker cartel orders, so he gets to stay.

And what about Saudi Arabia? The Khashoggi affair has been forgotten. No sanctions, no punishment, no nothing. It’s business as usual.
 
But of course, Saudi Arabia buys US weapons and stuffs billions of dollars in Wall St., and US oil company pockets. So it is left alone.
 
But this latest act of US political terrorism against Venezuela is another sign of desperation by the US. It is losing, and can’t do anything to fix its own problems, so it tries to leech off as many countries as it can to sustain its unrealistic and artificially-high living standards.

Trump has been so brow-beaten by the establishment that he has given up on his campaign promises to not interfere in other countries, and has surrounded himself with the greasiest neo-con filth there is. 

Ironically, these are the same deviants who were against him being elected, and also made the Iraqi mess possible; the same Iraqi mess Donald Trump the private citizen once tweeted was a terrible idea. Now, the same people responsible for those bad ideas are feeding him more bad ideas.

It is clear that Trump has failed, and is a loser. 

Venezuela deserves, and needs help from whatever countries have the power to stop an illegal US-led regime change. This is the time for Russia and China to do something major, and counter the US.

By doing so, China and Russia could save many lives, and perhaps prevent an insurgency that will brew for the next 50 years or more.

Regardless of what current crop of neo-con crazies rule the US, none of their regime change projects are going to yield them any desired results anymore. Either they will be defeated, or their plans spoiled.

A civil war, or some type of an incessant insurgency will be the result of any US military aggression in Venezuelan affairs. The supporters of Maduro are many, and cannot be ignored.

If Trump wants to pursue this, he will be responsible for all the violence and death, and we will very likely see a Venezuelan FARC 2.0 come into existence that will not give the US and their trained monkeys any reprieve. There is no victory for the US in this. None. Look at Syria, Ukraine, Libya. Either they failed, or went sour.