Venezuela Is An Opportunity For Russia And China
To Change The World
By Paul
Craig Roberts
February 08, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- Nothing better illustrates
Washington’s opposition to democracy and
self-determination than the blatantly public
coup Washington has organized against the
properly elected president of Venezuela.
Washington has been trying to overthrow the
Venezuelan government for years. Washington
wants the state owned oil company to be
privatized so that it can fall into the hands of
US oil companies. That would ensure Washington’s
control over Venezuela. Transferring the wealth
out of the country would prevent any economic
development from inside the country. Every
aspect of the economy would end up in the hands
of US corporations. The exploitation would be
ruthless and brutal.
Venezuelans understand this, which is why
Washington, despite wrecking the Venezuelan
economy and offering enormous bribes to the
Venezuelan military, has not yet been able to
turn the people and the troops against Maduro.
Moon of
Alabama’s explanation of Washington’s attack on
Venezuela gives you a truer picture that differs
completely from the lies voiced by the American
and European politicians and presstitute media,
a collection of whores who are devoid of all
integrity and all morality and lie for their
living.
I am
not as confident as Moon of Alabama that
Venezuela’s effort dating back to Chavez to be a
sovereign country independent of Washington’s
control can survive. Washington is determined to
teach all of Latin America that it is pointless
to dream of self-determination. Washington
simply will not permit it.
Maduro,
despite being the duly elected president with
the mass of the people and military behind him,
apparently lacks the power to arrest the
American puppet who, despite the absence of any
law or election as a basis, has declared himself
to be president, thus creating a
Washington-backed “government” as an alternative
to the elected one. The inability of Maduro to
defend democracy from within is a sign of the
weakness of his office. How can Maduro possibly
be a dictator when he is helpless in the face of
open sedition?
If
Russia and China quickly established a military
presence in Venezuela to protect their loans and
oil investments, Venezuela could be saved, and
other countries that would like to be
independent would take heart that, although
there is no support for self-determination
anywhere in the Western World, the former
authoritarian countries will support it. Other
assertions of independence would arise, and the
Empire would collapse.
Venezuela is an opportunity for Russia and China
to assume the leadership of the world, but I
doubt the Russian and Chinese governments have
the vision to seize the opportunity and,
thereby, fundamentally change the world.
Putin
is wasting his breath when he correctly
criticizes Washington for its violations of
international law. In Washington’s view, law is
what serves American interest.
Here is
Moon of Alabama’s analysis:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51062.htm
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
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