A Venezuela Prediction
A prediction that absolutely nobody will remember several years from now, when it is proven to be true:
First of all, let me remind you that Venezuela has the largest proven reserves of oil in the world.
Over the course of my lifetime, and certainly under the Chavez government, we have seen periodic spasms of anti-government violence in Venezuela. As the years pass by, the tiny minority of Americans who even remember problems in other countries discover that the United States precipitated economic collapse in Venezuela, through means such as its currently unjustifiable sanctions against the country, massively financed opposition to the government from rich businessmen and their paid henchmen, and often open support for rebel (i.e. terrorist, in U.S. government terms) armies.
Why? Because the Venezuelan people repeatedly elect governments that are determined to see that a fair share of the revenue of its oil goes to the Venezuelan people, instead of having all of it taken by American oil companies. That, in US terms, is called socialism-the notion that ordinary people have a right to a shred of their nation's wealth.
Oh, there is enough left over to pay off the requisite number of Venezuelan rich sociopaths to create an impression that the opposition to their government is a real phenomenon, but other than that, the Venezuelan people are expected to just shut up and do nothing while their only real source of national income is pillaged.
Well, based on a long past history in Venezuela, and in many other countries around the world, that is going to turn out to be exactly what is going on today. The US government, which is determined to see that its own people are stripped of every bit of our national wealth, is, under Republican rule, doing exactly the same thing in Venezuela. If the past is any sign, of course, it will be years before the full truth is learned, and by then the Venezuelan government will be long gone, replaced by a more compliant one whose leaders are willing to sell their country down the river if it enriches themselves.
First of all, let me remind you that Venezuela has the largest proven reserves of oil in the world.
Over the course of my lifetime, and certainly under the Chavez government, we have seen periodic spasms of anti-government violence in Venezuela. As the years pass by, the tiny minority of Americans who even remember problems in other countries discover that the United States precipitated economic collapse in Venezuela, through means such as its currently unjustifiable sanctions against the country, massively financed opposition to the government from rich businessmen and their paid henchmen, and often open support for rebel (i.e. terrorist, in U.S. government terms) armies.
Why? Because the Venezuelan people repeatedly elect governments that are determined to see that a fair share of the revenue of its oil goes to the Venezuelan people, instead of having all of it taken by American oil companies. That, in US terms, is called socialism-the notion that ordinary people have a right to a shred of their nation's wealth.
Oh, there is enough left over to pay off the requisite number of Venezuelan rich sociopaths to create an impression that the opposition to their government is a real phenomenon, but other than that, the Venezuelan people are expected to just shut up and do nothing while their only real source of national income is pillaged.
Well, based on a long past history in Venezuela, and in many other countries around the world, that is going to turn out to be exactly what is going on today. The US government, which is determined to see that its own people are stripped of every bit of our national wealth, is, under Republican rule, doing exactly the same thing in Venezuela. If the past is any sign, of course, it will be years before the full truth is learned, and by then the Venezuelan government will be long gone, replaced by a more compliant one whose leaders are willing to sell their country down the river if it enriches themselves.
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