VEN AN OPPORTUNITY FOR RU 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.
The views expressed
in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
the opinions of Information Clearing House.
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